Friday, November 21, 2003

GPS enabled digital cameras (and the IMC) Apparently, there's a lot more going on in the field of digital photography and GPS. GPS enabled digital camera "Well, Ricoh's new digital camera just totally one-upped that WiFi-capable digital camera from Sanyo we blogged about last week. The 3.24-megapixel Caplio Pro G3 has optional cards for adding WiFi, Bluetooth, or GPS (so you can stamp each photo with its exact coordinates) to the camera." [via Greg Elin] ..although you could get a GPS enabled camera phone that'll stamp your jpegs with latitude and longitude see the in-duce discussion and the danger-island discussion [via Tom Longson and in-duce] Mie's geotagged moblog site tokyotidbits.com [via Dav] Tokyo moblogging conference notes from marginwalker.org and Reiter [via smartmobs] and check out Jon Hadley's excellent moblogging.org for a good overview of tools and links to active mobloggers [and a large version of the IMC logo] [headmap] 1:31:44 PM    trackback []

The Bottom Line: Netscape vs. Microsoft, revisited "Which brings me to what I think is the biggest myth about Netscape, which is that they were a great engineering company. They were a crappy engineering company. Their web server software, which had the biggest potential for earning revenue, was so bad that it got no traction even though for a couple of years there was no meaningful competition. The Netscape web site did not even use Netscape's proprietary scripting language--the Netscape webmasters could not deal with all the bugs. The company would not even eat its own dogfood." Interesting perspective. [evhead] Gosh, I don't know who said Netscape was a great engineering company, but I'll atest to the statement above quoted by Evhead. I was at Netscape for all of four months, and I left primarily because the engineering processes were atrocious. I worked on the browser client, and my job was to check out the latest code and try to compile it for Mac OS. There were over 100 engineers writing to a single code base, targeting over 20 platforms all at once. As you can imagine, the build was almost always broken. They coded so fast, they were tripped up by their own work. It reminds me of the movie "Unforgiven" :-) 1:28:33 PM    trackback []

Changing around RSS I'm changing the RSS to the entire content of each entry into the RSS. Maybe links too. [Driving Sideways] Excellent! Thanks Jack! 1:27:57 PM    trackback []

Macromedia I'm happy to announce that I've accepted a full-time role at Macromedia, in their Information Convenience group. It's one of the best groups I've ever had the pleasure of working with, and I'm excited to be on board. 1:27:32 PM    trackback []

gadgets This was crazy gadget replacement week. I dropped my cell phone in the toilet a couple of weeks ago (before or after? you get to guess), and while it sort of worked afterwards, it stopped charging correctly. My old MP3 jukebox died too. And my three-year-old thin-and-light Vaio laptop...well, it was three years old. So: Treo 270, iPod, Fujitsu Lifebook. No more gadgets for me for another year. Of course, after I bought all this stuff, our stock tanked. [nj] NJ, I'd say you timed the market well! Also, I don't know if it's true for all fathers, but it seems I get fewer gadgets now that I have a kid... :-) 1:07:09 PM    trackback []