Category Archives: O’Reilly

1. Apr16

   Two feed syndication talks at Web 2.0 Expo

   • Feed aggregators
   • Web 2.0

   The Web 2.0 Expo officially kicked off yesterday at the Moscone conference center in San Francisco, bringing together thousands of web technologists to learn new things and market new web products. I participated in conference planning as a program chair, selecting a range of topics to educate technical product managers on the latest web technology, specifically in the Web 2.0 Fundamentals track. I'm leading two sessions at the conference on feed syndication technologies and I'll be in attendance all three days if you'd like to say hello. Intermediate to Advanced Syndication Web frameworks and software packages now feature basic...

   Read more...

2. Aug28

   Foo Camp geek out

   • O'Reilly

   I spent last weekend at Foo Camp hosted at O'Reilly's headquarters in Sebastopol, about 60 miles north of San Francisco. The 200-person event was 3 days of non-stop conversations, sessions, and planning with the occasional break for food or a few hours sleep under a cubicle desk. I was blown away by the quality of conversations and intellectually challenging ideas and formulations each day. A few things stood out, and I'll summarize a bit here before I forget Friday, Day 1 On Friday evening I discussed oil futures and web-scale micropayments with economist Hal Varian. Hal wrote Information Rules,...

   Read more...

3. Dec14

   Tiger adds default RSS reader option

   • Feed aggregators
   • OS X

   The next version of Macintosh operating system, 10.4 code named Tiger, defines a default RSS reader at the system level. Preferences in the current early start kit allow a user to define the time between feed updates, the color annotation of a new article, and when to remove stored items. Hopefully this means aggregators will be able to share a common feed storage location. Update: MacNet took down at the request of Apple Legal. The preference pane showed a drop-down boxes to select the default RSS reader, choose an update interval, highlight new items, and the length of time to...

   Read more...

4. Oct27

   How To Run Your Own Software Business presentation

   • Enclosures
   • OS X

   Oliver Breidenbach, Steve Dekorte, Steve Gehrman, Will Shipley, Brent Simmons, and Dan Wood participated in a panel discussion about how to run your own software business. Below is my summary. I also have audio of the entire session (44.1 MB MP3, 1:36:48) except for mentions of Omnigroup lawsuits that were removed at the request of Will Shipley. Time to market varied for different software vendors. It took Dan 6 months to develop Watson. It took Brent 10 months to develop NetNewsWire including learning Cocoa. It took Oliver 3 weeks to develop his first product and receive his first payment. The...

   Read more...

5. Oct26

   Mac OS X Innovators

   • OS X

   Delicious Library received first place in the Mac OS X Innovators contest announced today. I have seen the software for months, but I got to play around with the software in-person today, and hear about the product's features from William Jon Shipley and Mike Matas. I have been waiting for this type of software for a long time. I am the type of user to update things I own in my Amazon account, rate them, and even leave a small description if anyone is interested in my collection. Now I will have the same information on a local store,...

   Read more...

6. Oct26

   Sam Levin on messaging and branding

   • OS X

   Sam Levin just gave a presentation titled "Messaging & Branding; After the Product is Developed, What's Next?" at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference in Santa Clara. Below are quick notes from the session. I also recorded the session (21.1 MB MP3, 46:28). There are many Apple resources for developers and partners to tap into. ADC membership Apple Consultants membership Mac logo usage Mac Products Guide Mac OS X download ADC promotions Marketing 101: 20-25% of your total budget should be devoted to marketing. Data sheet. Example on Sam's iDisk. Press releases, targeting good press channels. Editorial/reviews/awards. Put review directly...

   Read more...

7. Oct25

   O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference

   • OS X

   Tomorrow I am attending the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara. I posted my session schedule on .Mac if you are interested. All feature presentations will be recorded and made available by O'Reilly. I plan to record Sam Levin's Messaging & Branding presentation and make it available on in MP3 format. I also plan to record the How To Run Your Own Software Business session. (I am still waiting to hear back from one panelist regarding permissions.) If you are at the conference look for me on iChat and say hi!...

   Read more...

8. May20

   Web 2.0 Conference

   • O'Reilly

   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....

   Read more...