Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2003

Why Apple missed it: Although I thought the products Apple announced yesterday were on the whole pretty neat. They missed it. Where was the iBlog application that would have really rocked the boat and given the crowd something to get off on? Imagine a neat OS X iBlog client that upstreams to your .Mac account (or to a different server using WebDav like iCal). What a way to have got more people over to .Mac and also to OS X. And no-one would have minded a beta-version of a neat blogging client whereas there really are enough browsers already for OS X and so everyone who is anyone is posting what they don't like about Safari. Of course I really did like the new 17" and 12" powerbooks and Keynote and the updated iApps and Safari... Next time.

Safari Hunter: David Hyatt has a weblog and is responding to the various comments on Safari, the new Apple Mac OS X browser (in case you hadn't heard).

Last minute business RSS: Before Christmas I wrote an article for my O'Reilly Weblog about publishing business data (like job vacancies etc.) as RSS feeds. Now read this. As Ben writes, sites need to do this natively - and they will.

Book in 2003: Unfortunately our book has been delayed until this year. But I have just received the PDF version so the date can't be far off. It was interesting working on a book with 5 other authors - as opposed to the last one - where there were only the 2 of us. So if you are interested in the various Apache frameworks there are and can read German...you know what to do.

On Safari: Mena Trott reviews Safari (via Ben)

Good morning Europe! Freezing: Most of Europe is currently in the grip of cold weather. Only a few days ago we were complaining about the rain. Now it's too cold. You can't win.