Both of these allow you to work synchronously or asynchronously while geographically dispersed on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. They also allow you to export those documents to PDF, Word, Excel, or Powerpoint. They should be quite the time saver, especially by reducing the dependence on face-to-face meetings, schedule coordination, or the tediousness of cutting-and-pasting from email or multiple document revisions.
Blogs bury yesterday and make last week disappear. Like the clocks in The Exorcist, blogs demonstrate reverse chronology in an unsettling way. Today’s entry is on top. Until tomorrow, when yesterday slips away. Wednesday buries Monday and pretty soon the good stuff is down in the basement somewhere. Want context? Just check out our handy tag cloud! Click around and you’ll find it. . .somewhere. Maybe.
Palm has long been thought to be circling the bowl. I was quite surprised and bewildered that Palm had poached a trio of Apple talent, wondering why they would leave Apple for Palm. (To be fair, the Palm Centro seems to be well received and doing quite well, especially at its bargain price point).
Now, when looking at the prospective upgrade for the Treo, the 800W, I can’t help but think of the amazing similarity to the phones we’ve seen prototyped and the emulator in the Software Development Kit for Android.
I’ve been reflecting how trust works on the internet, and specifically the blogosphere.When people discuss ‘trusted computing’ online, it’s usually in terms of ‘being ‘an authenticated user, meaning that they are who they say they are. Since much of the activity online is either anonymously (although no one is ever truly anonymous) or pseudonomous, then reputation is based on what you do (or don’t do) and what you contribute to your given group.
To quickly sum up what this means, here are some of the reputation metrics that I scribbled down:
As any of you visiting via inferior browsers (OK, browser - MSIE) may have noticed, the layout has been FUBAR. I’ve been working on a three-column theme and some interesting applications of the Wordpress plugin Who-Sees-Ads for both contextual advertising as well as contextual content. I was also going to upgrade to the newest version of Wordpress. I’ll take another shot at it this evening - if things don’t look normal, that’s why.
What is it about conservatives that they perceive bias anytime one of their outstandingly brilliant ideas get challenged? Or better still, that they are crucified for their beliefs socially and economically? From Mashable's Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins :
I’m going to come out and say it here, brand me how you like, but I lean libertarian to conservative in my political beliefs, and on my personal blog and podcast, have made no bones about that. It’s given me a unique opportunity to meet other folks in high tech, folks that you know and have heard of from big time reputable companies and Web 2.0 startups, and who’s services you likely use. Many of these same folks have in confidence have told me that as a conservative, they don’t really feel comfortable publicizing their political affiliations for fear of it affecting their business negatively.
The keystone of their plan may be that of Open Social implementing a bundle of open API (application programing interfaces) for interoperability between several networking platforms (such as Marc Andreeson's Ning, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster) and related services (such as iLike, Plaxo, and Slide). This new platform, codenamed "Maka-Maka" as reported by TechCrunch (more links via Buzzfeed) will tie these services together and more importantly, as stated by GigaOm, provide a common authoring language to make application development easier.
The concept of "flare" is inspired by the seminal 90s movie, Office Space, where Jennifer Anniston's character gets berated by her employer at a Fridays-Bennigans-Houlihan's knockoff for not having the required amount of "flare" on her uniform. The "flare" is supposed to be the equivalent of a sticker filled bumper or the backpack covered with band patches and buttons. What does it all mean in terms of webculture?
I just saw a screencap of an online mapping application and I started thinking…
Online map providers know starting addresses, destination addresses, and the route that the driver subsequently printed out. There's some good marketing data in there, especially if one wanted to make a heat map for advertising locations and such.
Maybe that's why Google is involved in automobile mapping solutions…
There was a segment on NPR's On the Media (I think) recently about how porn is being left-behind in the great social networking gold rush. This is quite surprising, given the internet's indebtedness to pornography. Without the demand (& market) for pornography, the internet as we know it would never have come into existence. In the beginning the internet was a dark & silent place.
In the beginning, all the content that existed was text based - fan fiction, MUDDs, stories, and the like. Eventually, the web came to be - and what followed was a world of color, sight, & sound. And what drove that market? Peoples desire to watch and listen to porn created the market necessary for innovation.
We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution. So all "inherent power" must derive from that Constitution."
