May 2004 Archives

  1. May31

    NY Times: When Software Fails to Stop Spam, It's Time to Bring In the Detectives

    Monday's New York Times article about Microsoft's fight against junk e-mail senders. I receive over 500 spam messages a day and would love to do something to stop the senders. "Microsoft's two-year-old digital integrity unit - which also fights online fraud, identity theft and spyware - employs more than 100 people around the world and has an annual budget of more than $10 million." "In the last 15 months, Microsoft has filed 53 civil cases against spammers."
  2. May30

    Lunch at Buck's

    Scoble is organizing a Silicon Valley Geek Lunch today at Buck's of Woodside at noon if you are in the area and would like to attend. There will probably be a small group, and that worked well last time.
  3. May29

    The Canvas Gallery and Cafe shuts down weekend WiFi

    The Canvas Gallery and Cafe, located in San Francisco's Inner Sunset district, no longer offers its patrons free wireless Internet access on Saturday and Sunday. There are now signs throughout the space to inform patrons of free wireless Internet Monday-Friday "with purchase." This change in policy happened within the last week, as I was at the café and online last Sunday. I assume the change allows for greater turnover during weekend hours. I know of other businesses who choose not to offer wireless access because of this same turnover concern. Is wireless Internet access another perk reserved for off-peak hours? [Update 7/19: Wireless access is now 7 days a week. New signs were added to ask patrons to please spend no more than ninety minutes at a table on Saturday or Sunday.]
  4. May28

    Sam Ruby: Each format has its strengths

    Sam Ruby posted a long and interesting writeup on the differences between RSS and Atom, and what tool builders need to worry about. "[I]f you want to support any version of RSS completely, you essentially need to support all of them." "If you can't generate unique ids for entries, then perhaps Atom is not the format for you." "Atom has more required elements than RSS. Atom adds type attributes to titles and links to resolve the ambiguity described above. It has separate elements for summary and content."
  5. May28

    Wired 12.06 : Cracking the Code to Romance

    Annalee Newitz writes about geek approaches to online romance in the June 2004 issue of Wired magazine. The article starts on page 156, and is now online. Christopher Filkins and his FOAF-based Dating Syndicate. Marc Canter's People Aggregator is mentioned as another dating engine built on FOAF. Kevin Burton is named "The Sniffer" for his use of AIM Sniffer to pick up women in wireless Internet enabled San Francisco cafés. Jonathan Moore is profiled as "The Stalker" for his use Unix shell scripts and Netcat to pull e-mail addresses from wireless networks and match the data with a Friendster profile. "Today's dating hacks will be tomorrow's Friendster or Match.com."
  6. May27

    Farallon Islands to San Francisco by kite-board

    On Sunday afternoon Steve Gibson, Chip Wasson and Jeff Kafka rode their kite-boards from the Farallon Islands to Crissy Field beach. The 28-mile stretch of ocean is known for strong currents, large swells and one of the highest concentration of great white sharks in the world. The trip took 2 hours, and no sharks were harmed.
  7. May27

    Yusuf Mehdi speech at Goldman Sachs Internet conference

    Yusuf Mehdi, head of Microsoft's MSN division, spoke yesterday at the Goldman Sachs Internet conference at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. Audio of the speech is available online in Windows Media Audio and RealAudio formats. Some interesting comments on MSN Search throughout the talk. "All of our aspirations...pivot on on Hotmail and Messenger." Why do you download a toolbar when everyone already has one? For integration into all of the MSN services of course. Search is front and center, but not the primary motivator for the install. MSN Search handles 2 billion queries a day. Over 10 million people have installed the MSN Toolbar. The new search system "will, as far as the consumer is concerned, be an end-to-end system for searching across any data type." Yusuf admits that search efforts are largely driven from the research group and apply knowledge and product features from across Microsoft. He emphasized that their search efforts are not just focused on Longhorn. Search on your PC for media and files. Search the intranet for specific data just as you would search the Internet. Searching a social network, e-mail, and private subscriptions such as Wall Street Journal. MSN Search has a "very big investment targeting personalization." There will be less requirements to sign in, and Passport will provide a more behind-the-scenes experiment. MSN already has such features working inside of its MSN Sandbox with features such as MSN Newsbot. During the question and answer session an audience member asked Yusuf how Microsoft can compete for top talent with Yahoo! and Google. Yusef responded that Yahoo! and Google do not have anything close to Microsoft Research and technology talent would love to play with the billions spent in this division every year. I was not very impressed with the answer and was hoping for more information since I have yet to see MSN Search in the Bay Area. It was also interesting that Yusuf focused on Microsoft Research instead of emphasizing the ability of his own staff. [Update: Microsoft has the full transcript online.]
  8. May27

    Atom linking

    The Atom entry link structure detailed by Mark Pilgrim has some interesting search applications. What if the rel started to carry more meaning? You could then semantically track trends and soruces with less parsing, enabling new applications.
  9. May27

    Map of Simpsons Springfield

    Jerry Lerma and Terry Hogan have a map of The Simpsons' hometown of Springfield. (via Slashdot) It even includes the Matlock Expressway!
  10. May27

    Steven Levy writes about Nick

    Steven Levy writes about Nick Denton and Gawker Media in Wired magazine. Writers are typically paid $1500 a month (contract, not full time) and build a reputation good enough for a traditional publisher. Levy estimates Gawker Media nets $80,000 per blog per year. "Denton's move to professionalize blogs bestowed instant credibility on an unknown single-writer Web site."
  11. May26

    Apple Mac OS X 10.3.4 Update

    Apple released Mac OS X v10.3.4 update today.

    Key enhancements:

    • Improved file sharing and directory services for Mac (AFP), UNIX (NFS), PPTP, and wireless networks
    • improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers
    • Improved disc burning and recording functionality
    • iPods connected via USB 2.0 are now recognized by iTunes and iSync
    • Additional FireWire audio and USB device compatibility
    • Updated Address Book, Mail, Safari, Stickies, and QuickTime applications
  12. May25

    Vividence search engine report

    Vividence has a semi-annual report on the search industry. PDF link to report. In its May report Google received top rank for customer experience and satisfaction, and last for ad activity. Customer experience and satisfaction rankings:
    1. Google
    2. Yahoo!
    3. Ask Jeeves
    4. Lycos
    5. MSN
    Ask Jeeves and MSN had a similar pre-search brand image, but MSN did not deliver the same post-search experience. 75% of users say they have one primary search engine. "Although actual search results returned by the leading five search engines do not differ substantially by some measures, Google users reported a higher perceived rate of success and satisfaction with search results."
  13. May24

    Mojave Airport space launch center

    Space.com: "The Federal Aviation Administration's Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) is expected next month to certify that the Mojave Airport Civilian Flight Test Center as a non-federal spaceport to handle horizontal launches of reusable spacecraft."
  14. May23

    Exercise on your Xbox

    ResponDesign plans to release Yourself!Fitnesss, a virtual personal trainer for your Xbox. Choose a backdrop and music track while Maya, your personal trainer, works through some of her 600 exercies. Eric Taub of the New York Times profiles Yourself!Fitness in today's New York Times.
  15. May21

    CNET : Google's desktop bet

    Google is reportedly preparing to release desktop search software: project Puffin. CNET News.com analyzes Google's move to the desktop, similar attempts by other companies past and present, and why Google needs to make this move well before Longhorn ships.
  16. May20

    Atom + FOAF = great things

    Kendall Grant Clark, faculty research associate in the University of Maryland's semantic web lab, wrote an interesting XML.com article about the courtship of Atom and who's courting whom.

    FOAF plus Atom (or FOAF plus your favorite RSS flavor) is to the Semantic Web what home pages were to the Web. A machine-readable description of a person, plus a machine-readable version of that person's web space, is enough Semantic Web for us to do really great things, whether or not the hard KR stuff ever amounts to anything at all.

    This idea is exactly what I was trying to get Technorati to understand last night.

  17. May20

    RSS, Web Services and Online Content in Cocoa Apps

    Next month's Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference features a bird of a feather meeting on RSS, Web Services and Online Content in Cocoa Apps. I do not have a conference pass, but I will try to attend the exhibits and this BoF.

    This BoF discussion delves into recent developments in desktop applications that integrate with content and services on the Internet. Such applications include RSS readers like Shrook and NetNewsWire and weblog editing tools like Ecto and Xjournal. Come get answers and share ideas about rich network client design and implementation.

  18. May20

    Web 2.0 Conference

    Web 2.0 banner

    John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly have one whopper of a conference planned in October: Web 2.0. The speaker list is incredible, especially if you are interested in search technology. $1695 for the conference sessions only if you register before June 7. Registration is currently by invitation only. If I know you and you are interested in an invitation send me an e-mail.

  19. May20

    MusicPad tablet PC for sheet music

    Adam Baer of The New York Times writes about the MusicPad from FreeHand Systems. You simply touch the 12-inch LCD display or use a remote control to switch pages.

    In much the way that portable digital audio players have changed the way people consume tunes, tablets like the MusicPad are changing the way musicians use sheet music.

  20. May19

    Technorati Developer's Salon

    I attended the Technorati Developers Salon tonight in San Francisco. I arrived at a non-descript side entrance and rang an unlabeled call box. Kevin Marks answered the door, and I knew I was in the right place. After an hour of mingling, pizza, salad, and Anchor Steam, the group of about 40 people headed downstairs. Sputnik wireless access covered the entire two story office space. The office space is very large, considering Technorati employs only 8 people. They should be able to expand to 50 people at least in this office space. Dave Sifry started things off. Technorati picks up, on average, a new weblog every 7 seconds. They watch over 2.4 million weblogs and see about 200,000 updates a day. 8.2% of all the weblogs Technorati tracks update daily. 80% of weblogs ping Technorati. Kevin Marks presented observed trends in Technorati data. Graphs were posted on Kevin's .Mac site and he has since removed the data. The top sites based on inbound sources were media companies such as New York Times. The graph Kevin showed looked very different than the Technorati 100. Ian Kallen showed an implementation of the Technorati API to show the current cosmos for the San Francisco Giants. Of course the question and answer period yielded some of the more interesting information of the night. Dave defined Technorati as a "user facing Internet service." He is very intent on sticking to that vision and creating the best Internet service without getting distracted by other things. Technorati plans to make money from text advertising and subscription services. When asked to expand on advertising using Technorati, Dave did not have a concrete answer. If Technorati indexes a site with both a RSS and Atom feed they will use the Atom feed. Technorati will follow every entry’s link in order to gather the full HTML of your post. Atom defines whether the item description is the full post or a summary and is therefore easier for Technorati’s parser to digest. Technorati has link archives to 2002 and post archives since January. There are currently no plans to expire any of this data. The Developer wiki contains a full list of issues raised at the Developers Salon.
  21. May19

    New Technorati APIs and SDK

    Technorati released a new version of its APIs tonight. Details are available on the Technorati developers wiki. Use apibeta.technorati.com for now but, if there are no major issues, beta will end in about a week. Technorati will now return your query as RSS if you specify your format parameter. Data are returned in UTF-8 format. The new API has better error handling, including appropriate HTTP responses for bad data or no data. Outbound links are sorted by dates and duplicate links stripped. The new API also allows you to limit the number of returned items.
  22. May19

    Google search of your hard drive

    John Markoff of The New York Times writes about Puffin, Google's consumer local search application expected any day now. Will it be ad free?
  23. May18

    Minutes from New York City W3C Atom discussion

    Minutes from today's W3C Atom discussion in New York City are posted on the W3C site.

    Eric Miller, W3C: "In the past 6 months, RDF support has gotten stronger. At the same time, I've talked with Tim Berners-Lee, and he has said this will not be done by fiat."

    Sam Ruby: "I would like to see more pull from W3C. Work on W3cCharter. IETF is a black hole. I'm not thrilled with them. But it has an external perception of being open."

  24. May18

    Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac

    I installed Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac last night. Notice how Microsoft's site was last updated a month ago, and even though I have the product on my computer and it is selling in stores (#6 top seller on Amazon), I cannot read about the new program features on Microsoft's own Web site. Bloggers within Microsoft did more to promote the released product than Microsoft corporate!

    [Update: 10:05 PM] Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac is now live on Microsoft's site.

  25. May18

    Peter Loforte video demo Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005

    Robert Scoble interviewed Peter Loforte, general manager of the Tablet PC team, and asked him to show off some of the new features of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. The interview is posted on Channel 9.

    Context based inking is very cool. I did not know the level of context involved until I watched the video. Entering a state name in the United States? The recognizer will try to match your scribble to one of 50 options. Entering a URL? The recognizer was trained on top site URLs from around the world, and also checks your history for a possible close match.

  26. May18

    Open wireless access point

    Micah Joel of Salon promotes open wireless networks for his own personal security. "By making my Internet connection available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain what kinds of songs, movies and pictures will be downloaded by other people using my IP address. And more important, my ISP has no way to be certain if it's me."

    I am still torn. I use Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Personal encryption at home. I live in an apartment building and others may be able to benefit from my wireless connection. Should I open my wireless access point?

  27. May18

    Seattle Central Library

    The Seattle Times has a slideshow of the new Seattle Central Library. Vibrant colors, lots of glass. Hopefully user friendly too! (via Jason Kottke)
  28. May17

    T-shirt television

    Brand Marketers of San Francisco introduced the marketing world to moving image advertising on a t-shirt at E3 and Wired NextFest over the last week. Hollywood Reporter profiles the new technology.

    The t-shirts are embedded with 11-inch monitors and four stereo speakers and can play any type of media. Fox plans to use the devices to promote its upcoming movie, "I, Robot." (via BoingBoing)

  29. May17

    Using blogs to keep teams up-to-date

    Michael Schrage, codirector of the MIT Media Lab's eMarkets Initiative, examines project management weblogs within Fortune 500 corporations. (via Slashdot)
  30. May17

    NY Times : New Way to Combat Online Piracy

    Sabra Chartrand of the New York Times: "University of Tulsa professor and a former graduate student of his won a patent for software that analyzes and monitors illegal music swapping on file-sharing networks, and then systematically inserts decoy files into the mix."
  31. May17

    Newsfeed reader user interface, improvements

    I have three newsfeed readers open, subscribed to the same feeds, and each program presents each channel, and the items within, notably differently. I examined the default configuration of each application.

    The traditional model is an alphabetical listing of all channels in a group. Channels with unread items are highlighted, and the number of unread items displayed. Ranchero Software's NetNewsWire follows this model.

    A modified model orders the channels by their latest item's publish date. Graham Parks' Shrook follows this model.

    Freshly Squeezed Software's PulpFiction displays items chronologically, without the navigation through channel listings. The item's creator appears before the subscription.

    I view these differences as a sign of personal reading habits. Some users choose a channel and then its item, others are in search of the freshest news. What does the future hold for newsfeed readers?

    1. Related feeds. A site has the same content available as summary or full in multiple syndication formats. Help me switch. There is a comment thread, a trackback, and a Technorati cosmos for this item. How do you tap into that information for the full discussion circle?
    2. Subject threads for all subscribed channels. Every post commenting on Movable Type 3 and pointing at the same location are grouped into a thread.
    3. Increased author importance. How do you establish your trusted news source, both by channel and by item creators within the channel? Can I subscribe to BoingBoing and only receive posts by Cory? Can I define category experts?
    4. Location search. This idea would be facilitated either by an extended Technorati profile or RSS namespace. Next time a major event happens, such as an earthquake in San Francisco, your source can be identified by proximity. This feature might also help determine if a user attends a conference or if they are commenting on an issue raised at the conference.
    5. Suggestion engine. Could utilize Alexa data in the first generation, for sites and/or authors on their own domain. People who visit Scripting.com also visit these sites.
    6. And of course better support for enclosures.
  32. May14

    Technorati helps you pick the winner

    Why has the world of online marketing not picked up on the image campaigns of radio stations and trade shows? There are individuals willing to wear your t-shirt, place a bumper sticker on their car, or answer their phone proclaiming their love for your product if there is a chance of a product giveaway reward for compliance. The street team, the random person in the trade show crowd that just might sight you and reward you with an iPod or free concert tickets.

    In the world of weblogs, a marketing company would team up with Technorati for a marketing campaign. Every participant would need to have a Technorati profile for notification purposes and to please the sponsor. The marketer then seeds a meme and provides a tracking method. It could be a quotation, a product page, or an image. Technorati provides the marketing firm with market attention statistics.

    Example 1. Bungie launches Halo 2 on November 9. A fan base already exists for the product, but Microsoft would like to amplify the hype. Bungie hosts an image counting down the time until the Halo 2 release based on your time zone. You place the counter on your site. Technorati crawls your site, sees the image source, and you are in the contest. Prizes rewarded by time zone, overall, by week, etc.

    Example 2. A new rock band heads out for a 20 city tour. They would like to gather fan feedback without spending a lot of money. They create individual pages on their site with set lists and photographs from the event. Fans link to the individual concert page. There is now feedback for the road tour, indexed and live. A written set list could be a give away, or a larger item such as a guitar or iPod for a contest spanning the entire tour.

    The Technorati Developers Salon is just a few days away, yet we have not heard much from the company since the Emerging Technology Conference in February. I have lots of ideas. Dave says he is listening.

  33. May14

    Xbox Live for $20 a year

    Xbox Live Starter Kit Microsoft has a special offer for Xbox Live. A 12-month subscription is only $20, and for $10 more you receive a headset and the full version of Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. I ordered the Xbox Live 12 Month Starter Kit, currently on backorder.
  34. May14

    Nike MP3Run

    Nike has a new $299 MP3 player with 256MB flash memory and Bluetooth. ZDNet profiles the Nike MP3Run. It includes a special pedometer you attach to your shoelaces and your data is stored on the flash memory. "While you're running, you can press a button to temporarily silence the music while a synthesized voice tells you how far you've run and at what pace. When you're through with your run, you connect the player to your PC, and your time and distance are uploaded to the Training section of Nike's running site, where a training log allows you to track your progress."
  35. May13

    Movable Type Recently Updated list

    I have a recently updated key from my previous donation to Movable Type. My pings are still accepted by the Movable Type server and I appear on the recently updated list, even though I do not have a Personal Edition license. I am not sure how long it will last, but worth noting for everyone confused about Movable Type changes.
  36. May13

    My new PowerBook

    PowerBook

    I just sold my Compaq TC1000 Tablet PC and bought a 1.5Ghz 15-inch PowerBook. So far I am satisfied with my purchase.

    I wanted a computer to hold all of my work. I had a Tablet and a desktop machine and I was never sure which one had the data I needed. A desktop replacement laptop seemed like the perfect response.

    Size matters. The TC1000 has a 10.4-inch screen. The quality of the screen is a bit cloudy, a result of protecting the surface from pen scratches. I wanted a bigger screen.

    Choosing an OS. My desktop PC is very moody. I have blue screens of death, corruption errors during installs, and none of the software felt integrated. Apple can test its software against standard configurations due to its small hardware base. OS X is a lot more stable and innovative than Windows XP, and Microsoft is a few years away from doing anything about that. Panther introduced a Bash prompt, so I can dig deep if I would like.

    Taking the plunge. I wanted a DVD burner, USB 2.0, DVI, and S-video out. I also wanted good styling, and the 14-inch iBook feels a bit childish to me. So the 15-inch PowerBook it is. $2500? Priced a Dell, IBM, and a Sony, and they were in a similar price range for a similar configuration. Yes, it is tough to determine a similar CPU configuration between a Pentium-M and a G4. I looked at both 1.8 and 2.0 GHz.

    So far I am happy with my decision. Still trying to get my printers working wirelessly, both through the USB port in my AirPort base station and the stand-alone HP Deskjet 5850.

  37. May13

    Movable Type 3.0D

    I just upgraded my weblog to Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition, also known as Movable Type Free.

    Limitations of the license:

    • No support from Six Apart
    • No access to paid installation service
    • No access to fee-based services
    • No promotion of your weblogs through the Recently Updated list
    • No commercial usage
    • No more than one author and three weblogs

    Sounds okay to me! Paid licenses start at $70 and includes "a guaranteed path to future versions." If Movable Type does change, at least all the entries are on my own server, in MySQL, and I can move to a separate publishing system. I donated money to Movable Type when I first created my Movable Type weblog, and there is still an area for a ping key in my preferences.

  38. May13

    Library of Alexandria discovered

    A Polish-Egyptian team of archaeologists has excavated parts of the Bruchion region of Alexandria and discovered what look like lecture halls of the Library of Alexandria.
  39. May11

    Code that Kills

    Scott Rosenberg of Salon attended the Systems and Software Technology Conference to research the military's dependence on software code.

    The average acquisition cycle for a military product, according to conference speakers, is 10 years -- and that's an optimistic figure. Between the time the Pentagon commissions a system and a contractor delivers it, whole generations of private-sector computing software and hardware have come and gone.

    XML and Web services are crucial for protecting America. If you're writing software today for a system that's going to take years to deploy, you have no choice but to plan on everything changing around you.
  40. May10

    The new Blogger interface

    Blogger is new and improved, and I like it! You choose your feed and choose one of 31 template designed by Jeffery Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, Todd Dominey, Dan Rubin, Dave Shea, and Doug Bowman.
  41. May06

    Gender benders

    Donatella Marazziti of the University of Pisa in Italy found that new lovers adjust their testosterone to more closely match each other.

    "[M]en and women in love have considerably higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol." "Men who were in love had lower levels of the male sex hormone testosterone - linked to aggression and sex drive - than the other men. Love-struck women, in contrast, had higher levels of testosterone than their counterparts" "[W]hen people look at their lovers, the neural circuits that are normally associated with critical social assessment of other people are suppressed"
  42. May06

    PlayStation 2 video chat

    EyeToy, Sony's camera attachment for the PlayStation 2, will now allow PlayStation 2 owners with a network adapter to use video features. "The video mail feature will allow users to send 30-second video messages to anyone on their buddy list."
  43. May06

    Adidas 1 running shoe

    Adidas will introduce a $250 running shoe in December that alters its properties based on real-time measurements. Michel Marriott of The New York Times writes about the new shoe in today's issue.

    Each second, a sensor in the heel can take up to 20,000 readings and the embedded electronic brain can make 10,000 calculations, directing a tiny electric motor to change the shoe. The goal is to make the shoe adjust to changing conditions and the runner's particular style while in use.

    The heel contains a sensor and magnet to gauge the cushioning needed and relay the data to the microprocessor; a drive train running from the motor makes adjustments.

  44. May05

    Major League Baseball now runs Major League Soccer's web presence

    Sports on Earth, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Major League Baseball, now runs the Internet operations of Major League Soccer. The online sports content business expands, and needs some blogging influence! Technorati should pitch the team marketing departments interested in tracking and assisting fan sites. Six Apart or Userland could help with player journals. Teams need their own templates for blogging sites as well, to help with grassroots marketing efforts.
  45. May05

    Spider-Man 2 in baseball stadiums

    Webbed logos of the upcoming film "Spider-Man 2" will appear on bases and on-deck circles in 15 stadiums during interleague games June 11-13. Foam fingers and masks with the "Spider-Man 2" logo will be given away at some ballparks as well. First there were the Blogger and LiveJournal templates. Now they place their ads inside the baseball diamond.
  46. May05

    Free Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition

    Microsoft is giving away a free copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition to users that view and rate 5 VB movies. There will not be 5 movies available until May 17, but there is already a Data and XML tutorial online. Free offer valid in U.S. and Canada only.
  47. May04

    iPod IPO

    Alex Salkever of Business Week would like to see an iPod IPO.

    For Apple, the best move right now is to spin out iPod and pocket the cash, because Wall Street's current euphoria marks the market's peak. Although Apple would be loath to admit it, digital music players are on the verge of commoditization.

  48. May04

    Atom Community Meeting

    There will be an Atom Community Meeting on Wednesday, June 2, at Sun's offices in either Menlo Park or Santa Clara. Time to prepare for the August IETF meeting.
  49. May04

    Rinspeed Splash Amphibious Hydrofoil Sportscar

    Rinspeed Splash

    The Rinspeed Splash Amphibious Hydrofoil Sportscar is capable of 45 knots on the water and 125 mph on land. Gizmo reviews the car. 0 to 60 in 5.9 seconds from its turbocharged two-cylinder four-valve 750cc natural-gas engine.

  50. May03

    NY Times: Workplaces in malls and cafes

    Matt Richtel of the New York Times writes about Cisco, Microsoft, and I.B.M.'s test market for public work spaces. Mobile workers want a structured environment to work, but also the opportunity to meet others. Target the small business workers and the artists and you will have a nice place to work, meet, and consume.

    "[T]he essential factor in luring office workers was to give them the aura of freedom; there was no pretense that they are in an office, even though they might be working intensely for hours"

  51. May03

    Wired News profiles Walt Mossberg

    Alan Deutschman of Wired News profiles Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and his influence on the technology industry.
  52. May01

    Technorati Developers Salon

    Dave Sifry announced a Technorati developers meeting on Wednesday, May 19 from 6-9 p.m.

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