October 2005 Entries
Good rant about current web strategy foibles and a new 4G web strategy. It's quite short and worth a read.
"The user experience should allow people to get sucked into this ongoing "sales narrative"."
"You have to take control of the means of distribution".
Visit Emily Chang's eHub. Fantastic list of "Web 2.0" style apps - Ajax, RubyOnRails, tagging, microformats, social apps and all that good stuff.
Wow. Nice move by Google. Got to give them some respect for that. Microsoft should follow suit. Not Bill; Microsoft.
Interesting slides on Internet trends presented by Mary Meeker at the Web 2.0 Conference (Oct 6, 2005). She predicts major changes over the next 10 years as we shift into the PC-Broadband and Mobile Internet futures. Looks like it was a very interesting conference. Read the blogs.
Interesting article on the US losing control of the Internet. I'm glad to see control move to an international body of some kind rather than a single superpower owning it.
I've been hankering for a better solution to playing music and DivX movies in my living room so I've finally embarked on a Home Media PC project. I just want to play my music and video collection; I'm not getting into TV recording. I want something small and quiet. I could have gone the dedicated playback device route but I really like to have an open platform to play with. I'm also trying to do it on the cheap.
My intention is to have a small silent box attached to my TV/stereo. Into that, I'm going to plug a large external hard...