Archive for March, 2005

Crossfader

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

I finally took a good look at Crossfader. This thing is HOT! How the heck did they convince DJ Spooky to do a spot for them? Eric Schmidt used to work in WebData with a number of us blog diaspora, and we bothhad a passion for good techno and spinning. He is much more talented […]

Who Was a Rat?

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

[via doc] www.whosarat.com, should be called who was a rat, since it lists agents and informers who are already compromised in other sources. But it is an interesting take on the ?Committee of Gossips?. When the semantic web makes it possiblefor everyone, like Stasi,to rat on everyone else, people will fight against it and try […]

Will Blogging help a Realtor?

Monday, March 14th, 2005

Roland Tanglao is discussing the value of blogging for a Realtor. The realtor claims that there is no gain for realtors in blogging, even with high Google rank.
When I looked at the Realtor’s site, I could see why he says that. I might go to a Star Trek convention with the guy (if I did […]

The War is Over (WS-* vs. POX/HTTP)

Monday, March 14th, 2005

For a few years now, we have seen two camps warring over the future of the Internet. On one side, we have the people who believe that WS-* specifications such as SOAP and WS-Security will eventually dominate. And on the other, we have people who believe that HTTP with plain old XML (POX) will outlast […]

Corporate Blogging

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

Last week, Shel Israel interviewed me for the book that he and Scoble are writing, code named ?The Red Couch?. He wanted to talk about my being the first corporate blogger at Microsoft, and the impact of blogging both internal and external to the company.
First, while I think that we had to overcome some initial […]