April 2004 - Posts

• information technology evolving similar to how American cities have evolved?

  I love essays like this that stretch my thinking and give me new conceptual models for understanding what I see happening each day. According to Pat Helland's “Metropolis“ article , “we are at approximately the early 1880's in urban Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:27 AM by Removed=342783 | 1 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

  InfoPath makes developing XML forms much easier than ever before. But how do you quickly make those forms available to people external to your organisation who may not be running InfoPath on their desktop yet? Enter InfoView . A partner of ours in Sydney, Read More... Posted Friday, April 16, 2004 12:31 PM by Removed=342783 | 9 Comments

• Activewords scripting guide in PDF

  I might actually figure out how to make this scripting stuff work! AW have recently released a guide in PDF format . Source: Marc Read More... Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:46 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off) Filed under: Consumer Tech

• VoIP Now Available on Pocket PCs For Free

  This article on Skype for Pocket PC mentions that Skype was founded by the two guys who in vented Kazaa! That's news to me. Wow, talk about two guys changing paradigms... Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:11 PM by Removed=342783 | 1 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• Channel9 gets media coverage down under!

  Great to see ZDnet Australia giving Channel9 some early coverage! Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:57 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off) Filed under: Consumer Tech

• a look under the covers of Gmail - Google's new email service

  I'm all excited reading miscoranda's drill-down into Gmail . This is big. As big as OutlookMT, Scoble? I dunno. But it's big. Oh, I know, web mail is old hat. Yeah but so was “search” when Google jumped into the pond. Also laughing at Kevin Read More... Posted Monday, April 05, 2004 7:06 PM by Removed=342783 | 4 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• why migrate from Microsoft ASP to Microsoft .NET

  A few months ago I linked to an article in a local paper which mentioned that one of Australia's largest e-tailers was still running on Microsoft ASP and SQL 7. Nothing at all wrong with that, as far as I'm concerned - plenty of businesses out there are Read More... Posted Monday, April 05, 2004 6:58 PM by Removed=342783 | 3 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• the customer is in charge

  McNealy (about why the deal came about): “What I think is happening, is that the customer is getting more in charge. I challenge you to find large enterprise customers who are unhappy with this deal”. What do customer's think of the Sun - Read More... Posted Monday, April 05, 2004 3:51 PM by Removed=342783 | 1 Comments

• Bungie announces HALO 2 product placement. Allegedly.

  Revealing a brand synergy unprecedented in next generation gaming, Bungie today announced a list of vendors to be featured in-game in "Halo 2" the exciting sci-fi adventure heading to Xbox game systems this fall. Gee, I can’t seem to find “ Read More... Posted Friday, April 02, 2004 9:05 AM by Removed=342783 | 1 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• Why Buffett bought Clayton

  Been reading Warren Buffett's Letter to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders in their 2003 Annual Report . It contains a great anecdote about how a group of students from the University of Tennessee helped him decide to purchase Clayton Homes. Really worth Read More... Posted Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:16 AM by Removed=342783 | 4 Comments