Archive for February, 2006
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
So, MJ has let the proverbial cat out of the bag (this is what happens when I'm offline for 3 days - bloody router).
In reply to the post in question, I'm not really annoyed. Point (c) is definitely the one that worries me most.
We have a product that is ...
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Aidan is likely to be a little annoyed.
Why?
Because I saw a thread about Mac calendaring solutions on Slashdot and couldn't keep my fat gob shut.
There's some work being done on this - using iCal on Mac OS X as proper groupware using SyncServices. Initial release will support Mac OS X ...
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Scott Stevenson blogs about Dvorak's recent headline. He then follows up with a good reason why Apple won't be following Microsoft's model.
Revenue is not important. Profit is important.
Technically, Microsoft's model of selling the software and not hardware is a better indicator for success. The costs of CD and packaging ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Over at "Creating Passionate Users" is a blog post which essentially says that until a user is aware of your product, it is a "Schrödinger's Product".
I'm not going to go into the detail because you can read it for yourself.
Essentially - until a user encounters the product, you don't ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
I blogged about this recently but I do think the "next big thing" is not web sites that enable the building of social networks (Sorry Mr Andresson, sorry 30 boxes) but rather "rich" interfaces to social data.
I remember speaking to the Jebus about this and Orkut. The thing that sucks ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
My employer has given me the option to purchase a laptop of my choice as a 'salary sacrifice'. This means that I'd be paying for the laptop before tax, and therfore saving about 40% of the cost. What's that translate to? Well, a $3200 Mac Book Pro ...
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
I've written the first part of a tutorial for Og, an Object Relational Mapping tool which is part of the Nitro suite. I've been using this a lot over the past few months, and I thought it would be useful to provide a gentle introduction to Og. While ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
It's that time again. What time? Oh, a Linux advocate is out with a tour de force on why Mac OS X annoys him. Strangely enough it doesn't start with a "Linux is teh roxxorz. MACsX not run on cheap-ass PC" which is the usual refrain. No, Chris is a ...
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Fraser Speirs has a couple of posts bout the "niceness of things" and the "seriousness of software".
I can't say I agree with his assessment of software. Some software he includes as being "ikea" I have come to depend on whereas some "nice" software I find to be annoying and frustrating. ...
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Saturday, February 11th, 2006
Robert "Bobby" Scoble is usually a cool dude DESPITE working for Microsoft. Well, that's unfair as there are lots of cool people working for Microsoft - we don't normally get to meet them though. In todays post he misses the point. It's not that there's special love for Google, there's ...
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