Thursday, March 10, 2005

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Microsoft is acquiring Groove, and with it, Ray Ozzie. Interesting. I remember reading a WSJ article, years ago, when Lotus Notes was young, that "introduced" Ray Ozzie. It said something to the effect that "Bill Gates says that Ray Ozzie is one of the five most talented programmers in the world. No doubt he thinks the other four work for him, and wishes Ozzie did". Now he does. 12:14:24 PM    comment []

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Okay here is something I don't think I love about the gmail UI: when Replying, the subject line is not automatically presented to you; you have to request it if you want to edit it. This only encourages subject lines that drift ever-farther off-topic. Now, I must grudgingly concede that this probably is a pragmatic decision on the part of the gmail team: people are very lax about correcting subject lines, so they are just recognizing that fact, for what it is, in their UI design. For my part, though, I try to be diligent about bringing them back into focus (even employing the old convention of appending the former subject line in parents with the "was:" keyword). So I personally don't like it. 9:22:16 AM    comment []