Friday, February 21, 2003

Microsoft"s Weblog And Content Management Server Software I am not the only one suggesting Microsoft offer weblog and content managment software. A satirical article in Dashes.com Magazine suggests that Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server is headed in this direction.  Dash already has a fake box ready for shipping the product. PC Magazine has a serious article about Microsoft Content Management Server. This is not your free copy of blogger: "Content Management Server requires Windows 2000–based servers, IIS 5, and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or 2000. It's priced at $42,000 per CPU, and typical implementations cost from $100,000 to $150,000 for licensing." eWeek Magazine has a similar artilce on Content Management Server. The best source of information is the Microsoft Content Management Server home page. Is the Bill Gates website actually a weblog? 10:42:04 AM    comment []

Google Blogger Purchase Will Alter the Blog Ecosphere by Accelerating Competition Business 2.0: "The Blogger hosting service will become faster and more reliable when it's moved to Google servers, and millions of people who have never given a thought to blogs will be exposed to them when they visit Google." [Scripting News] Doc Searls and I have discussed, when he convinced me to offer blog cruises, such as Tsunami BLOG 2002, that weblogs are about to replace standard home pages, and that web content management is the next big thing, or at least has been for the web enlightened. With Microsoft.NET redefining the Microsoft business plan to focus on delivering web services, it is only a matter of time before there is a Microsoft BLOG.NET 200x application added to Microsoft Office. ...or would Microsoft offer it for free like Internet Explorer so that they could dominate the blogger market? 7:01:37 AM    comment []

Is Microsoft Right Behind Google in Blog Offerings? cory on gbloogle. Cory analyzes the blogger purchase:   "Google's made a business out of this sort of research. Its PageRank algorithm is the best idea-diffusion-miner we've got right now, and in hindsight, Google's move into blogs seems inevitable. " Google reminds me of the metaverse in Snowcrash. Hey, it could happen... [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] I can see Microsoft adding a web content manager/weblog application to Microsoft Office in the near future as there is a scramble to "own" weblogs. I suggested that it might be integrated into IE, Outlook, or Exchange, but it could be integrated into FrontPage or even Word, if it is not developed as a seperate application for Office.NET. 6:55:18 AM    comment []

Expect Weblogs to Proliferate in 2003 dave on google. Dave: "Everyone is going to be watching to see if they tilt the search table to favor their weblogs. And even if they don't we really do need a second search engine, in case there's too much synergy." May I suggest Teoma.   Footnote, I'm a shareholder [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Weblogs were a major item on the Keynote address of Simon Phipps, of Sun, at the Geek Cruise .NET Nirvana. I can see Microsoft getting into the weblog/content management business either through Internet Explorer, Outlook, Exchange, or just flat out purchasing an existing application and renaming it "Microsoft BLOG.NET 2004." 6:51:06 AM    comment []

Open-Source.NET? Retiring exec: Microsoft needs open-source [InfoWorld: Top News] The open source issue is not going to go away for Microsoft software developers who write code focused on delivering web services, because Microsoft.NET has to coexist on the Internet with the rest of the developer world. I suspect Microsoft will attempt to balance itself on the edge of a razor blade, offering some open source code and maintainingg managed control over their core products. Doc Searls has an interesting point of view posted on his blog about Dave Stutz, the retiring exec. 6:41:59 AM    comment []

Will Divergent Opinion Become "Offensive?" Net blocking threatens legitimate sites. Government efforts to block offensive Web sites are technically problematic and legally worrisome, a new study shows. [CNET News.com] My daughter Ariel, who will be graduating from Middle Tennessee State University this year, maintains her Blogger site under the masked domain name: www.Oomny.net. Netblocking is one of those issues that the ACLU and other free speech organizations will debate in the courts. I am concerned that student blogs will get placed on the net blocking chopping block as an add on to the Homeland Security and Patriot Act bills if they so much as mention the words "peace" or "non-violence." 6:35:18 AM    comment []

What is the Natural Life-Cycle of Managed Source? Study lauds open-source code quality. Scrutiny of the source code underlying several operating systems finds that a key networking component of Linux is of higher quality than that of competing closed-source software. [CNET News.com] A major item of concern brought up during the Geek Cruise ".NET Nirvana" to Simon Phipps (www.webmink.net) has been the peer review process in the open source community. Although often referenced as "closed-source," Microsoft.NET may also be refered to as "managed source." 6:29:02 AM    comment []

Moblogging on Geek Cruises with MOUStech.NET Now Bloggers Can Hit the Road. Mobile weblogging, or moblogging, is the latest trend in the world of blogs. New software allows users to update their weblogs remotely with cell phones and other handheld devices. By Peter Rojas. [Wired News] In providing WIFI aboard cruise ships for Geek Cruises seminars, numerous weblogs have been maintained while cruising the Caribbean or Alaska, including this weblog: www.moustech.info. Rather than create links to all of them today I will direct my readers to Google to enter a search on "Geek Cruises Wireless," to read the numerous stories that have been posted to weblogs during past cruises.   6:21:40 AM    comment []