Authorized Impersonation

This has been bothering me for a while. Have you noticed how many site have “features” that let you add you username/password for a third party site and they will access it for you? Have you ever thought about the semantics of what is going on here, in short, the site initiating the request is [...]

Sometimes it Just Feels Like 1984

This article in the NYTimes is a throwback, and with all due respect to Mr. Stross, he just doesn’t get that it’s not just about computers anymore and market share isn’t a meaningful metric for success in the broader market, as odd as that may sound.

The best time for gaining market share is when your [...]

ActiveGrid Acquires TurboAjax and Stakes Out Dojo

If you are steeped in Ajax development you will no doubt need no introduction to The Dojo Toolkit. If not, allow me to shed some light on this. Dojo is a open source DHTML toolkit written in Javascript, which for the non-geek audience means you can use it to quickly build rich web applications, and [...]

VMWare in the Merc

There’s always a sailing angle in the fluff pieces on successful companies…

Growing up on the banks of Chesapeake Bay, Diane Greene loved to sail her dinghy. She mastered windsurfing when the sport was new. She studied naval architecture and as a young woman lived in Hawaii, designing windsurfing gear.

Like a lot [...]

Reviews, We Got Reviews!

Recently I have been fortunate to have some very positive consumer goods experiences, and each time I have thought to myself "gee, I should blog about this", so in the spirit of completely random things to blog about in one post, here you go…

Ricoh Aficio 3500N Color Laser Printer

I needed a new printer for my [...]

SCO : The Story Everyone Forgot About

In case you missed it, and I think it’s fair to say that most people did, SCO filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Nobody has covered the SCO legal temper tantrums better than Groklaw, their roundup on the news as well as first day analysis of the filings will tell you everything you need to know.

Not so [...]

The 10 Most Wanted

Instant messaging Web mail Portable storage devices (flash drives) PDAs and smartphones Camera phones Skype and other consumer VoIP services Downloadable widgets Virtual worlds Wifi hotspots [...]

Everyone Building Social Networking…

Yahoo’s weak position in social networking is baffling and has been a source of sharp criticism for the company’s top managers. They have been blamed for being asleep at the wheel while MySpace, initially as a startup, went on a tear in the social-networking space, for launching a weak product and [...]

Microsoft = Facebook for the Enterprise

The nation’s fourth largest bank will roll out a social networking service for 110,000 employees over the next several months, giving workers a sophisticated knowledge-management platform that combines the user-friendly approach of the popular Facebook service with broad integration into Wachovia Corp.’s business applications.

Joining Newsgator meant immersing myself in Microsoft products [...]

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