Archive for February, 2005

Me too - I’m bummed too

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

Jeremy Zawodny is bummed he didn’t get invited to a Yahoo blogger scene at Yahoo - and me too.
Oh well. But I get to be there on Tuesday. Perhaps I can run into Jeremy there - too.

Eric Rice and Eli Chapman

Friday, February 11th, 2005

Today was a historic day. Eli Chapman is in town and I introed him to Eric Rice. Cha Cha Cha.

NewsGator’s roadmap

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Greg Reinacker was kind enough to help me figure out why my NewsGator wasn’t loading. It’s under Help/About/Disable Items.
He then pointed me to his roadmap he just put up and wanted to know what I throught about it.
Hmmmmmm.
Well first of all transparency is a good thing and roadmaps are superb! But we all know [...]

Gene Kelly mix-up/mashup/remix

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Not sure if any of you have seen this. My NewsGator is broke - I tried to reach Greg Reinacker for help (maybe Rene can help?) so I have no idea if anybody has been blogging this.
This link was sent to me by my old friend Rand Wetherwax.
It’s a killer, diller VW Golf ad.

I feel like I’m in Disneyland…

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

OK - so we have our client from ‘aSmallWorld in this week and everytime I make the statement “it’s a small world” - I think about what a great name they have.
Afterall - I met Matt Connors (of Sonic Solutions) on ASW, and he knows many of the Swedish folks who are on it, who [...]

My Vloggercon rap

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Jay Dedman just sent me the link to my presentation I gave at Vloggercon in NYC. Despite the snowstorm - I had a blast.
I gave folks an early early sneak at ourmedia.org (which we’re working on - as we speak BTW) and rapped out the various open standards efforts that are happening around the [...]

Integration of Laszlo with Struts and other fun stuff

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Adam Wolff of Laszlo has posted an excellent article on Struts, Laszlo and the difference between RIAs and page-based apps.
I highly recommend reading it.
BTW we’re about to start working on an end-to-end example of a Laszlo app - including the Laszlo source, the HTML wrapper code and the business logic (in Java.) This will [...]

SuperBowl ad analysis

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Every year the intelligentsia watch the SuperBowl not for the football - but for the ads. It’s become the true litmus on the state of the Amerikan economy.
I started watching an hour before the game began - and I saw/heard something that apprently GigaOm - Om Mailk didn’t.
COMCAST is raising their download speed to [...]

Modeling User Workflows for Rich Internet Applications

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

David Hogue has put up a brilliant explanation and tutorial on how to build improved work flows using Flex. It’s all brilliant and totally right on. And it’s typified by what Laszlo Systems user interfaces were doing two years before Flex.
But that’s spilt milk now. Just when you read the article - imagine [...]

I wanna go to Singapore

Saturday, February 5th, 2005