Saturday, July 13, 2002

Fool.com: Apple and what you should know about the books http://www.fool.com/community/pod/2002/020712.htm God bless the fools! 10:35:30 PM    comment

QTTurntable was ahead of its time Video Scratching on M-M-Macs. Just as scratching and sampling has forever changed music, video scratching is starting to revolutionize club visuals. A New York trio, Squaresquare, is leading the pack. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 10:28:23 PM    comment

Word 11, XML, and the universal canvas. I'm in LA at Fusion, a gathering of Microsoft partners and resellers. In this morning's keynote, Jeff Raikes recapitulated his PC Expo talk on Office productivity futures and the Tablet PC. The new part of the talk, which brought me to the edge of my seat, was a preview of a genuinely XML-capable version of Word. By that I mean, and Microsoft seems to mean, not just the ability to export to XML, or to consume SOAP services -- capabilities that are in parts of Office XP today (Excel, Access). More profoundly, it's about a writing environment that natively produces XML which is valid with respect to an arbitrary XML Schema. ... [Jon's Radio] 10:24:24 PM    comment

Slashdot | Mac Users May Be Smarter http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/13/1227226 geek A: I'm better than you because I drive a Jeep. geek B: no, I'm better than you because I drive an F150. geek c: can't we all just get along? 10:15:13 PM    comment

XML as the digital highlighter technology How many colors can you tag your thoughts with? How could you retrieve thoughts this way? 12:36:08 AM    comment

book review: Love is the Killer App Love is the Killer App high cost, low value. The process of feeding knowledge into your network, and sprinkling with compassion is a pretty nice way of going about business. In the end, though, I got more value out of his reading list than his sermon. Discuss 12:35:18 AM    comment

a poem about Price Never compete on price, it just turns your product into commodity. Innovate, Innovate, Innovate. Who are the continuously innovative companies over the last 30 years? Pace your innovations to the speed of the market. Innovate too fast and you burn out on too much friction with the market. Innovate too slow and lose your orbit around your market. To calculate the value of a book graphics(cons) == graphics(pros) words to page ratio = number of words / number of pages - graphics(cons) + graphics(pros) cost per page ratio = price of book / number of pages books ~ high cost per page = expensive knowledge books ~ low cost per page = cheap knowledge books ~ high value = sum of words > price of book books ~ low value = sum of words < price of book 12:30:18 AM    comment

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