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• 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

• 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

• 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

• newsflash: the internet is popular with Gen X & Y

  I had a laugh to myself reading this article today about a study conducted by the Online Publishers Association which analyzes the Internet habits of 18-to-34-year-olds, and guess what it found?? Gen X and Y have embraced the Web in a big way. Wow. No Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:26 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off) Filed under: Consumer Tech

• Playing around with Anagram

  Thanks to Buzz who introduced me tonight to Anagram . Anagram instantly and intelligently translates the meaningful text from any application into Outlook Contact, Calendar, Task and Note items. Great app! Just what I've needed for YEARS. The amount of Read More... Posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 1:46 AM by Removed=342783 | 2 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• the "Father" of Information Engineering

  Yesterday I had the distinct pleasure of meeting a living legend - Clive Finkelstein . Clive Finkelstein is acknowledged worldwide as the "Father" of Information Engineering (IE), having developed its concepts from 1976 - 1980 based on original work carried Read More... Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:42 AM by Removed=342783 | 1 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• CIOs see increased IT spending: Gartner

  A survey of 956 chief information officers around the world shows they are confident about increases in IT spending in 2004 but do not intend to increase spending until business shows a recovery, a unit of the technology research firm Gartner said in Read More... Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:35 AM by Removed=342783 | 1 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• Do kids blog?

  Mitch Denny asks : I wonder what would happen if we encouraged school students to keep an open log of their thoughts about their studies that was accessible to teachers and parents where they could ask questions. Parents and teachers could then read the Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:23 AM by Removed=342783 | 14 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• Why do bloggers kill kittens?

  To find out why, jump over to the Blog Epidemic Analyzer FAQ at hp.com . And just to prove I'm not a "Blog Vampire"... source: Word Soup Read More... Posted Monday, March 08, 2004 9:34 PM by Removed=342783 | 2 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• Microsoft's marketing

  Dylan Greene on Windows 2003 Server : " I'm sure there's a bunch of other features we could be taking advantage of, but as usual it seems that Microsoft's marketing department would rather keep them a secret." Which reminds me of a comment a colleague Read More... Posted Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:37 PM by Removed=342783 | 1 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech

• I've been un-Googled

  I recently changed the title of my blog to improve my googlerank for the search "Microsoft blogger". And it worked... for a couple of days. I went from #40 to #4. And now? Apparently my blog doesn't exist. If I google "microsoft blogger", Scoble is still Read More... Posted Sunday, March 07, 2004 5:53 PM by Removed=342783 | 3 Comments Filed under: Consumer Tech