Thursday, May 09, 2002

The Register: Watch Jim Allchin reinvent the wheel. This sort of proves the point made below in another entry of how difficult it is for larger companies to get their business model around web services. Especially in the case of MS's need for market position. It also shows how entrenched MS is with some of their larger customers. Never mind the little guys, if Wall Street had bought the concept of Hailstorm we'd all end up in a big database in Redmond (and I'm only half kidding here) 5:54:06 PM     LA Times: Highschool seniors are told "if you have no plans for the future you don't participate in grad. rites" 4:19:22 PM     Lawrence Lessig in Business Week: "The dinosaurs are taking over" - an article discussing the way media companies are cordoning off the internet. Lessig is a Stanford Law prof. 4:11:57 PM     Updated Chapter 6: Almost finished the chapter. The story continues with the difficulty of finding a short wave radio. 1:42:20 PM     REBOL - Interesting idea. Built by Sassenrath, the guy who was mostly responsible for the AMIGA. And it has a Dummies book. But seriously, Chris Langreiter has a pretty amazing app that interfaces with Amazon's "people who read this also read...." collaborative filter.  That's how I actually stumbled across REBOL. One small problem, while it is extremely portable and runs on any sort of OS that you can throw at it, it is a proprietary technology without a widespread community. If Sassenrath runs out of money, it could die and leave the unsuspecting developer hanging. 11:04:07 AM     The Guardian Unlimited: Ben Hammersly has a nice description of why there is such a mess in web services land when it comes to MS, IBM and SUN and why companies like Google, Blogger and perhaps even MindElectric (which he doesn't mention but I think fits right in there), being unhampered by the need to shoehorn everything into a power position and business model, can simply be creative and make it work.   10:57:52 AM     Flash: Blogging Goes Corporate. Weblogs being the trend du jour, Macromedia attempts what may be a new type of marketing strategy: getting bloggers to push its products. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News] 7:48:52 AM

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