Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Platforms are important. That's pretty deep, I know. I've been trying to figure out how to explain this best to people for the better part of a week. Here's why they are important: they create a foundation that everyone can build applications up, which in turn allows more people access, ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Just got this 911 map tracker IM'd to me.The one difference between this and the Twitter traffic is the issue of dynamics. The Twitter feed comes directly from the people on the ground; I'm assuming this map is, well, mapped, which it likely has to do since there is multimedia ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Wow. The Read/Write Web is supposed to facilitate communication, but I've never been one to believe that most companies were going to embrace that notion in reality. The Web is messy and ugly and convoluted. In other words, it's everything that we are, smashed together in a virtual environment where ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
This may seem strange, posting a link to a mashup that uses the USPS Office locations with Google Maps, but it illustrates a larger point about the future of media.As we move into a world of search, where I'm looking for the information that I need when I need it, ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I've been covering the FCC Wireless Spectrum Auction on-and-off for the ECT News Network. Today, the auction closed, with four of the five main Blocks official sold. The fifth -- for public safety and private partnerships -- didn't make the cut.
The $19 billion auction, though, is most significant because of ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I was told that this application -- Windows Live Writer -- was superior for bloggers on the go. The main benefit: I can write and save the draft, and when I'm back online, everything gets uploaded.
If I'm guessing, this is a Silverlight application (no Air here) as it offers the ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Apparently Flickr is moving beyond simply pictures, it's headed to video as well. Social Media is such a small part of the Microsoft purchase, but it's interesting still.This weekend, I heard a NY Times editor say that everyone was running to video -- for no reason (which I agree). Not ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Sometimes, we take ourselves a bit too seriously in the tech world. It's all business models, ROIs, emerging technologies, crowd sources (or cloud sourcing now). Not every community needs to be a save-the-world, here's-why-we-do-it place.
Sometimes, I just want to know what camels think about the Earth.
Of course, the downside to ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
I've been fooling around with a tool called Simplify Media, which is supposed to allow me to stream my music no matter where I am through iTunes or Winamp.
Then I realized that I don't actually listen to music, and I could care less what my friends are listening to. It's ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Interface is the next great revolution.I can't tell you why I think this, but I'm guessing by 2009 we'll all be talking about Web applications and software such as AIR. The revolution cycle for social media appears to be 18-24 months. We've already moved from Web 2.0 into Social Media ...
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