Archive for the 'smart people' Category

OMWatch?

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

GigaOM is now a full-time job, meaning that Om will be blessing us with higher volume of his incisive analyses.  It is a wonderful thing; people pay lots of money for the kind of insights he offers.  The only problem is that it now becomes a full time job for his readers to digest all […]

John Edwards: The End of Fake

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Excellent report from Todd Bishop about John Edwards appearance at Gnomedex.  John basically tells people, “I have spent so long learning how to be fake, I’m not sure if I know how to be real anymore!” 
It’s cute that he says, “shed the conditioning”, but I’m sure he doesn’t really feel that way.  Nor do any […]

VicG Leaving

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

News today that the GM of my team, Vic Gundotra, will be leaving Microsoft for a year and then joining Google.
It’s a big loss for us, and an even bigger gain for Google (they are dead last in the industry at some of the things Vic knows how to do well).  My only consolation is […]

User Created Content

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Jon Udell continues his crusade to obfuscate the idea of “user-generated content”.  As Orwell implored in “Politics and the English Language”, people should call a thing what it is — it’s user-generated content.
There are problems with Jon’s two proposed replacements.  First, “reader-created context” is what Stumbleupon does.  It’s what digg does.  It’s not what YouTube […]

WS-* Meets REST

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Doug demonstrated this, working code, to me a few months ago. This sort of thing, baked into IE and Firefox, would change the whole landscape for people wanting the features of SOAP, but in a RESTful programming model.