Tuesday, July 15, 2003

9:43:12 PM    

Will Blogs Become Extinct? According to Don Park they will. Or, more precisely, they will merge with website technologies: Blogs will fade away within two years.  What we know now as blogs will not be recognized by web users of tommorrow, not as blogs, but as websites.  Website technologies and blogging technologies will converge into one.  People take it for granted that webpages can be edited using their browser.  People will also take it for granted that any webpages can be subscribed to with a single-click.  Web browsers will be changed to support all this and more like highlighting of changes. Robert Scoble disagrees: Heh. Rich Levin told me exactly the same thing three years ago. Sorry, you're off by quite a bit. They won't fade away for at least five, and maybe 10 years. You guys all give Microsoft WAY WAY WAY too much power. Yeah, we have $40 billion or so. 55,000 employees. But, many of our customers have not yet upgraded to IE6. What makes you think they are gonna upgrade to a "super dooper upgraded" Internet client within two years (assuming we had an upgrade coming this week, which we don't)? That just cracks me up! I wish evangelism was so easy. But, then, if it was, Microsoft, and Apple, and Linux wouldn't need a team of evangelists each, would they I've got no inside perspective into the computer industry. I'm just a customer. But I do know what works as a businessman when I'm looking for software or hardware to do what I want. I tend to agree with Scoble.   But that's just my opinion. I'm probably wrong. 9:43:12 PM    Go ahead, make my day  []

9:17:25 PM    

Yeah, I Can Read The Sign Too For the past several months this blog has carried the Gnomedex sign that you (all one of you) can see over to the right. It says "we'll be there." Well unfortunately I won't be going because my business is just too busy right now and it happens to fall right before my son's birthday to boot. So I guess I'm going to miss out on seeing Iowa. OK, so I'm not going to miss Iowa. But I will be missing out on meeting some real interesting people and some of my favorite bloggers. Anyway, if you (all one of you) can get there, hoist a cup of coffee in Chris's honor for me. 9:17:25 PM    Go ahead, make my day  []

1:32:34 AM    

Popout Prism This news item comes courtesy of the LangaList Newsletter: Xerox PARC (Palo Alto research Center) invented many of the technologies we take for granted today--- the GUI, the mouse, the laser printer,ethernet, and more. Now, they're trying their hand at a browser: Reader Greg Rice writes: Popout Prism is a Web Browser designed as an experiment at PARC laboratories - free download: ==== Want a peek into the future? Popout Prism is a Web Browser that reduces the amount of time users spend looking for information in Web pages. By creating visual "popouts" that emphasize critical elements in Web pages, Popout Prism draws users' attention to the right information. The Popout Prism is particularly useful when searching for information in long documents and in large collections of documents. It's also useful for anyone who's visually impaired, as well as for anyone showing web pages on a data projector to a group of people You can go here to download a 90-day trial version (1 Mb). 1:32:34 AM    Go ahead, make my day  []