Archives for April, 2006
A Different Kind of RIAA Scare Tactic
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
RIAA suing people who don’t own a computer. Blah, blah, blah. First off, it turns out that these folks did own a computer at point point. Second and more important, after the RIAA’s “we sue dead people” incident a year or so ago, I just don’t think that there’s a suit they could file that [...]
More like Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Monday, April 24th, 2006
And an update on Gmail/AOL fun, also via IP: From: Carl Hutzler [XXX@aol.com] Sent: Tue 4/25/2006 7:02 AM To: ip@v2.listbox.com; David Farber Subject: Update [Re: [IP] AOL blocking Gmail] As promised, an update. Late last night around 11pm, we added into our whitelist a number of Gmail IP addresses for their outbound systems. Evidently gmail [...]
Friday afternoon amusements: hi there, USPTO!
Friday, April 21st, 2006
Happy Friday, all. Got back to my desk and there was a message waiting for me, indicating that I’d had a very special visitor to this post on the USPTO’s little patent difficulties. Date: 21 Apr 2006 14:45:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Sea Monkey Watch To: seamonkey@absono.us Subject: Visitor – U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 151.207.242.4 [...]
Newsgator back, probably all drunk by now…
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Greg Reinacker has the first cut post-mortem on today’s Newsgator outage available, so you should head over there and read it if you want the real information. From my perspective, the timeline ran something like this: Monday 5:00pm MST Some ugly stuff starts happening in a dark corner. Monday 10:00pm MST Newsgator folks experience that [...]
RSS Withdrawal: Minute 49
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
…or… my thoughts are with you, Newsgator guys NetNewsWire wasn’t syncing when I got up this morning. “Eh, it’s a beta, I’ll dig around a little this evening and see if I can figure out what’s going on.” Got to the office. FeedDemon wasn’t syncing. “Hmmm…this isn’t good. This isn’t good at all.” So okay, [...]
On Design: MS’ Own Worst Enemy
Friday, April 14th, 2006
The “Microsoft redesigns the iPod packaging” video got a huge amount of well-deserved attention a little while ago, and I was extremely pleased to learn that the video actually originated inside MS. One very big point for Microsoft. On the down side, however, this video exists because something in Microsoft’s corporate culture breeds a whole [...]
Lunchtime Musings: toread, perchance 2.0…
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
“‘toread‘ is an email-based free bookmark service.” It’s a “beta?” Check. Gentle colors, rounded corners, big fonts, drop shadows? Check. Mmmmmm…javascript. Check. Not entirely clear what problem it solves for me? Check. Yep. Web 2.0 is alive and well in Japan, too. Technorati Tagging: musings web2.0
Jigsaw: Even Opt Out Would be a Step Up
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
I’m with Michael Arrington on this one. As much as I’ve railed against Jigsaw, I could deal with the existence of this company if they gave me even a token amount of respect…and oddly enough, granting that respect could make their business a lot better. Consider this radical idea: Joe Salesperson uploads his contacts into [...]
Lunchtime Musings: Smart Guy Deathmatch
Monday, April 10th, 2006
Disney/ABC decides to offer some popular programming online, for free. Techdirt’s Carlo says good first step, in that they’re finally doing something. Umair “Bubblegeneration” Haque says bad, bad idea, in that this first step is strategically the wrong place to start. With two of my key sources for stealing good ideas disagreeing with one another, [...]
The New York Times Redesign: Keep Watching
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Khoi Vinh says that the redesign of The New York Times site isn’t (for the most part) his doing, and as much as I respect his work I can believe it. Hiring an excellent architect/designer was a key step for the NYT, but it feels like that was just one step in a much larger [...]
