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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Skype - Disruptive, Not Compelling
Skype appeals to early adopters, offering features and functions that most of us don't know we need. But for now, the service levels are too low, the surprises too frequent. I'm bowing out to wait and see. [More...]Friday, September 23, 2005
I Do Not Eat Green Eggs And Ham
Sam I Am. What's big, bloated, and required by every forward-looking windoze software developer?The .NET framework.
It's a shame. Developers are caught because that's the new architecture - the emperor's new clothes - and they need to move forward. Consumer's are caught because running an increasing number of new applications requires installing this inscrutable bloatware. The only winner is microsoft. It's amazing how a monopoly will let you win by screwing two people simultaneously.
I was going to install the highly-regarded search engine optimization software WebPosition 4, but all I got was this crappy warning box. Not gonna do it. Sorry. I don't blame the WebTrends guys. They're doing what they have to do. But I just can't bring myself to layer another 30-40 Mb of bloated, bug-ridden crap on top of the creaky, flaky, unstable pile of spaghetti code that is already windoze XP. Anyone know of a good alternative SEO package?
Thursday, September 15, 2005
RSS 2.0 Validation With Enclosures
I had some errors in my RSS template, but after futzing around with it a bit I got it to validate at FeedValidator. The enclosures aren't showing up in FeedDemon, but this might be some kind of caching issue, since I retrieved the entries before I fixed the invalid enclosure tags. I don't feel like playing with it any more right now so if you see the enclosures in your RSS reader please let me know.Zimbra PIM: The Chandler Killer?
The Flash demo of Zimbra is quite interesting, but then demos always are. After years of hype the Chandler project of the Open Source Applications Foundation still languishes at release 0.5. Can AJAX, eXtreme Programming, and other techno buzztrends overtake the open source uber-PIM and deliver a challenger to Outlook in our lifetime?
Calendaring seems to be the barrier. E-mail and search are pretty standard. But calendaring, and sharing calendars, is a real bear when the Outlook-driven corporate world is involved. Im not at all sure iCal is up to the challenge, but we have yet to see a truly robust iCal app. [Link via Judith Meskill]
Zimbra is open source, AJAX-enabled email, calendaring, and collaboration
What I like about Zimbra is its open sourceness (natch) and its intelligent approach to information presentation as applied to email and calendaring. Think Gmail but with tight integration with a web-based calendar, and with a lot of neat little information integration bells and whistles â like generating a contextual menu from a phone number in an email with an option to place a VoIP call. AJAX is no mere hot buzzword here but is well applied such that mousing over bits of data can generate tooltip-style boxes with related information, such that rolling over a date will pop up any items on your calendar for that day, e.g. Also slick, it understands relative terms like tomorrow or next Tuesday and will popover relevant calendar details for those terms. Whats exciting about this is that it eliminates a sizeable portion of the need to keep switching back and forth between panes, interfaces or applications to access information youve always felt should be available to you from right where you are.
Terry Frazier at 9:37 AM
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