http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/FrontPage WebSeitz/wikilog en-us http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2006-08-29-GoogleDomainApps GooGle "is":https://www.google.com/a/ "moving":http://www.buzztracker.com/permalink/14136/14589838 toward offering their GoogleApps for any custom domain. No OfficeSuite apps yet. ChrisAnderson "extends":http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/08/google_apps_and.html AnilDash's "comments":http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/08/28/google_office_g on the embedded/MashUp/UniversalCanvas idea. * MichaelSippey "notes":http://sippey.typepad.com/filtered/2006/08/embeddable_spre.html this as a replay of HalfBrain (which led to OddPost). FredWilson "says":http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/08/google_office.html *So what does this mean for VC-s and EntreprenEur-s? I think it means that Google has selected its second area of FoCus and that is collaborative web-based productivity apps (the first being search of course).* One path on the PortalCollaborationRoadmap. GooGle is also spinning this specifically "for":https://www.google.com/a/edu/ the educational-institution market (not really EducationalTechnology yet). Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:59 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/AltavistaVsGoogle Fri, 16 May 2008 11:07:02 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/GooGle Fri, 16 May 2008 11:06:35 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/AdWords Fri, 16 May 2008 11:04:08 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-05-16-SchneierCustomsSearchingYourLaptopData BruceSchneier "says":http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/computing.security *Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days... British customs agents search laptops for pornography.* (PrivAcy) Fri, 16 May 2008 06:24:52 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-05-16-GoogleDoctypeWiki GooGle "is":http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-google-doctype.html launching its GoogleDoctype developers' library. It's a WiKi - did they use JotSpot code or something simpler? Yikes those "be":http://code.google.com/docreader/#p(doctype)s(doctype)t(Welcome) some ugly URI-s. (as you can see, this old code doesn't play well with certain URI chars.) Fri, 16 May 2008 05:32:51 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-03-17-Kelly1000Fans KevinKelly "says":http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php a creator/artist (writer, musician, etc.) needs 1000 TrueFan-s. *A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce... To raise your sales out of the flatline of the LongTail you need to connect with your True Fans directly... But the point of this strategy is to say that you don't need a hit to survive... Not every artist is cut out, or willing, to be a nurturer of fans. Many musicians just want to play music, or photographers just want to shoot, or painters paint, and they temperamentally don't want to deal with fans, especially True Fans. For these creatives, they need a mediator, a manager, a handler, an agent, a galleryist - someone to manage their fans. Nonetheless, they can still aim for the same middle destination of 1,000 True Fans. They are just working in a duet.* Lots of excellent links. (BusinessModelsForInformation, FamousForFifteenPeople) DavidRothman and JohnScalzi "are":http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/17/the-folly-of-the-1000-true-fans-strategy/ skeptical. Apr21 update: KevinKelly "reprints":http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/04/the_reality_of.php the detailed story from musician RobertRich. Apr27 update: KevinKelly "notes":http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/04/the_case_agains.php the similar thinking of BrianAustinWhitney. He also says that JaronLanier has been seriously looking for a musician who has built a career this way. See the comments for nominations. Apr31: HughMacLeod "says":http://twitter.com/gapingvoid/statuses/800570944 *Take it from me: If you want to build yourself a Web 2.0 "global MicroBrand", you're better off having a product that costs a lot of money.* May05: "relevant":http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kostabi/kostabi1-20-06.asp MarkKostabi bits (from 2006): *The best new customer is the repeat customer. If someone is a good customer (and in my case it's mostly dealers who buy paintings in quantities of 10 to 100 at a time), I do everything possible to keep that customer coming back... A dealer should not have a stable of artists; an artist should have a stable of dealers... I make genuinely desirable work. I know it's desirable because I constantly ask for FeedBack, both casually (from my friends and studio visitors) and formally (by conducting official surveys, via e-mail) to find out which are the most successful paintings. And I use that feedback to inform my next brushstroke... Also, I make oil paintings on canvas. I don't mess around selling color photos guaranteed to soon fade, or black-and-white photos that can be instantaneously mass-produced and all have the same surface... I listen to my audience. I don't pander to them but I am in dialogue with them. I can sell a painting with an anti-gun theme to an NRA member, or an anti-smoking painting to a devout smoker, not because they agree with my message, but because they understand it. There's DiaLogue. Dialogue sells.* Thu, 15 May 2008 19:52:58 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-04-23-OlpcTurmoil The OLPC project "seems":http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/23/its-time-to-stick-a-fork-in-the-olpc/ adrift. I like "this":http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/competition/rise_of_4p_computing_solutions.html FourP FramIng for ThirdWorld-targeted tech: Power (low-use), Performance, Portability (MobIle), and Price. Apr24: "interview":http://www.xconomy.com/2008/04/24/one-laptop-per-child-foundation-no-longer-a-disruptive-force-bender-fears-qa-on-his-plans-for-sugar-interface/ with departing WalterBender. * *I think it's pretty obvious and was obvious from the very beginning that it's a lot easier to cater to people's comfort than to be DisruptIve. Nicholas had that wonderful quote in BusinessWeek about a month ago - that OLPC is going to stop acting like a terrorist and start emulating Microsoft. If you read between the lines, the idea is to stop trying to be disruptive and to start trying to make things comfortable for decision-makers. And that's a marketing strategy, and one that I think has been adopted by many laptop manufacturers. Personally, I think that the customer is not always right, and that a role that a non-profit can play is to try to demonstrate better ways of doing things and let the market follow them.* * *When we started to do this, I tried to build the solution based on three very simple principles about what makes us human. Because I knew this had to be something that worked everywhere, with every child. The first of the three things is that everyone is a teacher and a learner. Second, humans by their nature are social beings. Third, humans by their nature are expressive. I decided those would be the pillars of how we design the user experience for the laptop. The other thing is that I was very much influenced by SeymourPapert and his constructionist theories, which can be summarized in my mind very efficiently by two aphorism. One is that you learn through doing, so if you want more learning you want more doing. The second is that love is a better master than duty. You want people to engage in things that are authentic to them, things that they love. The first is more addressed by the Sugar technology; the second is more addressed by the culture around freedom.* May15 update: * MicroSoft "is":http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/technology/16laptop.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin now officially on board. *The pact with Microsoft is not an exclusive agreement. The Linux version will still be available, and the group will encourage outside software developers to create a version of the project's educational software, called Sugar, that will run on Windows.* * RyanPaul "summarizes":http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080515-former-security-director-blasts-olpc-suggests-new-strategy.html an "essay":http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi by IvanKrstic about the project. Very skeptical of ConstructionIsm. *The core mistake of the present Sugar approach is that it couples phenomenally powerful ideas about learning - that it should be shared, collaborative, peer to peer, and open - with the notion that these ideas must come presented in an entirely new graphical paradigm. We reject this coupling as untenable.* Thu, 15 May 2008 19:17:10 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/SharingGoods Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:11 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-05-15-ChurchillClubTechTrends Some gurus "did":http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/05/14/at-the-churchill-club-the-top-10-tech-trends/ a panel at the ChurchillClub to talk about tech trends. Huge amounts of MobIle talk, plus CleanWater, GlobalWarming, GeneticAlgorithm-s (EvolutIon vs DeSign), VC industry. Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:14 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-05-15-StackOverflowSpolskyAtwood JoelSpolsky "and":http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/04/16.html JeffAtwood "are":http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001101.html collaborating on building StackOverflow, a VirtualCommunity for developers. Jeff "intends":http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001116.html to use HTML rather than SmartAscii or a GUI editor. (I think he's going to auto-insert paragraph tags from double-returns, but that's it.) Some commenters note that MarkDown is supposed to let HTML through. Also note his intended audience is programmers, so he feels comfortable putting a little more work on him. Thu, 15 May 2008 11:35:55 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/JeffAtwood Thu, 15 May 2008 11:33:25 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/CarlIcahn Thu, 15 May 2008 10:28:40 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-05-15-IcannVsYahoo CarlIcahn "is":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121085637987295175.html going after YaHoo. *Mr. Icahn, who recently amassed a stake in Yahoo, nominated 10 members for the Yahoo board, including himself, lieutenant KeithMeister, Dallas Mavericks owner MarkCuban and former ViaCom Inc. Chief Executive FrankJBiondi Jr.* Thu, 15 May 2008 10:25:50 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-05-14-ComcastBuyingPlaxo ComCast "is":http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2008/05/post.html buying PlaXo. Blech. Wed, 14 May 2008 20:12:56 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-04-09-AndroidForN810 It's "possible":http://etrunko.blogspot.com/2008/04/android-running-on-n810.html to run AnDroid on a NokiaN810. Of course, you can't actually talk to anyone! Wed, 14 May 2008 13:27:30 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-05-14-NumentaPython I hadn't heard that JeffHawkins' NuMenta group "is":http://www.numenta.com/for-developers/software/prog_guide/Output/prog_guide-06-1.html "working":http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2007/03/keynote_why_cant_a_computer_be_1.html with PyThon. Wed, 14 May 2008 11:59:14 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2008-05-14-PoliticalPhotoOp "A":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302862.html *steep descent brings Clinton's plane to Charleston's hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane's wing. She pretends to spot an old friend in the crowd, points and gives another wave; in fact, she is waving at an aide she had been talking with on the plane minutes earlier.* But the photographers will run their fake photos anyway, won't they? Awesome JournalIsm. Wed, 14 May 2008 11:06:11 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiSpace Wed, 14 May 2008 10:35:38 +0000 BillSeitz http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/SubWiki Wed, 14 May 2008 10:34:31 +0000 BillSeitz