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Jon Udell: Dueling simplicities
The key point here is the creation of a standard way to interact with a database using XML-based protocols. This has the potential to be really huge. We could do bit320 without the whole learning XSQL thing.
Bud posted this on November 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slashdot | Search Engine Results Relatively Fair
"The Economist and PhysicsWeb report on a study from Indiana University claiming that search engines have an egalitarian effect that gives new pages a greater chance to be discovered, compared to what would be the case in the absence of search engines."
Bud posted this on November 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Om Malik’s Broadband Blog — » Web 2.0 Exit… what is that?
Suggests that everyone doing Web 2.0 projects is really just doing unpaid product development for Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. Maybe. Some of the commenters argue that there are viable revenue models.
Bud posted this on November 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
H Y P E R C A M P :
"Also I'm glad that the message got through from the anti-trust case. It'll do no good for MS to try to cut corners again the way they did competing with Netscape. We need a mult-party system..." Dave Winer's angle on live.com
Bud posted this on November 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
PBS | I, Cringely . November 3, 2005 - It's Deja Vu All Over Again
A bit of a screed about how Microsoft's recent moves to software as a service represent its awakening to the world of web 2.0 and web services. Cringely feels competitors should not be complacent.
Bud posted this on November 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A VC: Will Live Kill?
But on to Windows Live and Office Live. I don't see despair. I see opportunity. Because Windows Live is lame. I honestly could not find a single thing I'd use it for.
Bud posted this on November 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Microsoft Quashes Search Relevancy Report
The important point here is that microsoft is not making a dent in the search business, and by extension one can understand why they re-orged. Competition has moved off of the desktop and into search. A more general issue of how you measure performance.
Bud posted this on September 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)