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Some days can really suck in a BigCo. One day you are busy, the next day you are sitting on your thumb. I guess this is the price you pay for getting paid. Wait second, this is starting to sound like a Dilbert moment. |
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posted: 3:24:48 PM 
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Tool ideas. I've been toying with some ideas for tools like a page checker, contact management, network management, and a few others. I think the first one will be a page checker. I'm responsible for monitoring a few companies at work. This past week I've been put on the spot about press releases that these companies have made and I didn't know about. Having this tools will help me keep up to date on the press releases these companies put out. Additionally, you could use it to notify you when any page you want to monitor changes. A home page, a RSS feed, your own blog, etc. I'm going to be working on this while I'm traveling over the holidays and hope to release it some time late next week. |
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posted: 10:45:31 AM
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This is great! I finally got remoate access and remote posting to work. Radio seriously rocks! |
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posted: 10:41:16 AM
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This is a test to show Shellie, my wife, that I can post to my weblog via email and she should pay attention to her IM's rather than Christmas shop online at work. |
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posted: 1:28:11 PM
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I've been thinking about this whole email-to-blog feature. For a desktop application, it seems kind of redundant. Why would I email myself just to post something that I can post directly? From that perspective, it does seems a little funny. (Then again, I am posting this entry via email because the whole synchronization thing still hasn't been solved and implemented.) On the other hand, if the email-to-blog feature could be tweaked, you could do a lot of interesting things with it. Alerts via email, for instance. Have the email account monitor look for different subjects which would then trigger different kinds of events. These events could be a simple as popping up an alert screen that says "Your late for your next meeting. Get your butt in here. Sincerely, Your Boss". This is akin to IM, but would be mainly used for broadcasts rather than two way interactions. More complex interactions could be implemented such as assembling content and responding back to you, creating a digital assistant. This digital assistant idea could tie in very nicely with the whole knowledge logging concept. Just some ravings over lunch. |
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posted: 1:22:21 PM
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This is my first post via email. I sure hope it works. Radio is turning out to be quite the flexible and compelling little tool. Once released, I am very excited about it's possibilities for consumers and businesses. There is no doubt in my mind that it is going to spark a new revolution of personal publishing on the Internet. The challenge is going to be in interconnecting everyone using Radio. |
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posted: 12:24:11 AM
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I'm trying the "wizzy" editor for the first time in Radio. It's pretty cool. It even captures my double spaces after a sentence, unlike normal HTML that ignores any whitespace after the first whitespace character. What this tool needs is a spellcheck tool, just like the XML-RPC Spellchecking Tool. Now things are getting interesting for normail consumers. As a matter of fact, I'm thinking about setting my parents up with Radio while I'm home for the holidays and see how they like it. |
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posted: 10:20:17 PM
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I'm happy to report that using Radio from work is working fine after configuring my proxy settings. However, we still need to work out this whole synchronization thing to get it working properly. Until then, we really only have half of a solution. |
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posted: 2:41:16 PM
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Working for a BigCo can suck sometimes. Watching all your friends and colleagues have fun building cool stuff while you toil in the machine all day is no fun. Then again, getting paid isn't all that bad. Hmmm, get paid or don't get paid? I'm honestly not quite sure which is the lesser of two evils. The best would be to get paid not quite as much and build cool stuff. That's what I think. Now ... anyone know how to do this? |
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posted: 11:21:09 PM
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Three VC deals. Remember when the list used to be as long as your arm every single day?
VC watch: This week's funding wins. Onset Technology raises $3.5 million...RouteScience snags $30.5 million...Mi8 grabs $5 million. [CNET News.com] |
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posted: 10:10:47 PM
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I've released a preview of Resource Synchronization Framework (RSF) here. It provides for basic replication of resource between remote machines. It should be interesting to see what kind of reaction I get from the Radio Dev group!
There is not much precidence for replication like this. The current replication products on the market are only for server to server replication. Database transaction replication is the model I used as a basis for the design of RSF. |
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posted: 12:45:29 AM
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The first snow of the season just hit the Boston area. Where I live, we received between six and eight inches. Weather forecasters only predicted a 30% chance of snow this weekend. I hope they all get fired. Wishful thinking, I know. Just three days ago it was 70 degrees. |
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posted: 12:24:32 PM
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This is quite cool. Danger's handheld will be able to run on today's networks with an order of magnitude in functionality. I wonder how they are powering that little thing?
Woz's Dangerous Handheld Liaison. A Blackberry competitor goes nuts and picks Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to join the board of directors for a new handheld maker, Danger Inc. [Wired News] |
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posted: 11:49:54 PM
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posted: 11:37:35 PM
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It's a whole new world of instant messaging out there. John just pointed me to something I haven't seen - Trillian, a multi-protocol IM client. Very cool stuff. Trillian has a buddy (no pun intended) on Linux - EveryBuddy.
IM is an interesting beast. There are three real serious system players: Microsoft, AOL, and Jabber. The interface is locked up by Microsoft with Messenger and AOL with AIM. However, what will happen when Microsoft and AOL figure out they can charge a toll for the messages constantly running across their networks the same way Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo have done with SMS? It will be like the email revolution. Businesses will pull IM into the coporation. The only way that can do that is by using Jabber or setting up Microsoft IM for Exchange. Jabber is much more straight forward and it's free, at least for the open source version. I'm sure Microsoft will put a toll on IM for Exchange when they start toll collecting on a per message basis. |
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posted: 11:20:29 PM
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Weblogs need some more tools. I'm thinking a Jabber based IM tool, first and then see what comes next. Any feedback woul be greatly appreciated: dann_sheridan@hotmail.com. |
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posted: 11:27:48 AM
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Why the hell would any lay person want to expose their lives to a bunch of strangers on the Internet without understanding how the technology works? This sounds like a DoD project gone bad or a male teenager's dream come true.
Email cyber culture experiment [Geeknews] |
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posted: 10:49:34 AM
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I have been reading "The New New Thing" lately. It is quite a nice peice of recent history. I wonder how Jim Clark is weathering the recession and the particular events around Excite@Home as of late? |
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posted: 12:52:57 AM
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I can just see it now, skins on corporate XP desktops with their own corporate identity. Armies of road warriors with the company's brand on their laptop, engrained into every click they make. Is this a bad nightmare created by someone at Microsoft with too much time on their hands or a real feature?
Whats coming in Style XP Beta 4 [iBeta.Org] |
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posted: 11:59:55 PM
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