Tuesday, September 24, 2002

Ray Ozzie: Software Platform Dynamics 2:29:55 PM    comment [] Head of Microsoft Research Rick Rashid talks about ongoing MSR projects "Sideshow" is the internal name for a project in which the company has developed an application that displays a series of windows with useful information on a user's desktop. Using XML and Microsoft's .Net Web services technology, Sideshow can reach out to the Web, corporate servers, or the computer's hard drive and provide quick views of data relevant to the user. Sideshow team has published the project paper last month that described "notification and awareness platform". It looks like intelligent dashboard that apparently is being regularly used internally at Microsoft by 7000 users. Integrated in Office, this kind of tool will represent dramatic evolution of personal dashboard. I predict Office people are or will be working on productizing this. Groove team should definetely take note. [via Alexis Smirnov] 2:29:21 PM    comment [] More activity surrounding the Berman Bill Berman's bill would give copyright owners the legal right to disrupt the unauthorized use of their copyrighted works on P2P networks using as-yet-undefined tactics and technology. Some Internet advocates say Berman's bill would roll back traditional consumer rights for the private use of copyrighted materials solely to satisfy powerful media interests, which could theoretically hack into systems, infect networks with malicious viruses and conduct denial-of-service attacks -- all with impunity from lawsuits. I'm all for protecting copyrighted material, but the idea of "using as-yet-undefined tactics and technology" scares me. 8:01:22 AM    comment []

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