Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Convergence: I'll take computer/phone over screen/paper. Microsoft's Jeff Raikes beat the drum this morning for the tablet PC. The preview of Office integration was a underwhelming, though. Converting an inked address into an Outlook involved lassoing the thing, recognizing it, sending the recognized text to the clipboard, dropping it into Outlook, and then...just like you have to do today...dragging the elements (name, phone number, email) individually into their slots. Sigh. This isn't going to be the year of paper/screen convergence. Maybe not even the decade. Sitting next to Steve Gillmor, I dropped my yellow legal pad onto the floor and said: "Oops. There goes $2500." Absent a digital surface that has the qualities of paper that matter -- including being cheap and disposable -- I see digital ink as sometimes useful but not revolutionary. ... 3:39:12 PM

XMethods uses SonicMQ for asynch version of XSpace. Tony Hong from XMethods is here, showing a nifty evolution of XSpace. It's currently a service that implements a simple shared address book. The concept is that of a tuplespace updated and queried by SOAP messages. The new twist, slated to become available July 15,  is the use of SonicMQ, a JMS (Java Messaging Service) provider, to add reliability, security, and pub-sub notification services to the message flow. ... 3:39:12 PM

Google, PageRank and k-logging. My weblog buddies will enjoy this sidebar to an article on the Google search appliance. When I say "Google" in that piece, I mean it in a generic sense. Today we associate PageRank with Google. There will be other ways to pool human evaluation of information, and Google will not be the only inventor of such techniques. ... 3:39:09 PM

Wireless in NYC. One of my Linux Magazine pals, Jeremy Zawodny, has started a weblog. Jeremy is one of those guys who does more than humanly possible. Works for Yahoo Finance by day, and Linux Magazine by night, and (I'm not sure when) is also writing the O'Reilly MySQL book.  So of course, there's time for a weblog too. Here's an item from Jeremy: ... 3:39:08 PM

XMethods uses SonicMQ for asynch version of XSpace. Tony Hong from XMethods is here, showing a nifty evolution of XSpace. It's currently a service that implements a simple shared address book. The concept is that of a tuplespace updated and queried by SOAP messages. The new twist, slated to become available July 15,  is the use of SonicMQ, a JMS (Java Messaging Service) provider, to add reliability, security, and pub-sub notification services to the message flow. ... [Jon's Radio] 3:39:04 PM