Archive for April, 2005

The Ajax reality distortion field

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

David Temkin raps it out.
WE spent five years trying to build a “Laszlo-like” rich media interface platform inside of Javascript and tehbrowser. Believe me this is one subject I know about.
I LOVE ODDpost and the Google Maps thingie and what people are doing with D HTML nowadays. Our weboutliner is in D HTML.
But […]

The Blue House

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Koreans are a rowdy lot. They built their presidential palace ABOVE the Imperial palace - looking down on it.

Bono is the new Pope

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Mark Pincus speaks his mind about one.org.

Research Institutes

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

I like hanging out at research institutes that actually make products.
As I left the place, these kids were crowding around this statue.

Juxtapositioning

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

The theme of my presentation - is Juxtapositioning. Seoul has a lot of that - old and new, natural and man-made, Asian and Western.
It’s the same with:
- proprietary technology models open source
- centralized communities distributed communities
- templated, limited UIs highly customizable UIs
- Hollywood, BigCo media end-user content and media
- traditional […]

Seoul Korea

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

It’s cold and foggy in Seoul - but I’m all jazzed to do our meeting today and nerd out with some serious nerds. I’m having the best hotel access experience of my life. It’s so civilized.
My username is my room # and my password is my last name. The bandwidth is great, […]

The Great Giveaway

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

I ran into this great article in Busienss 2.0 on open APIs and the benefits that Amazon, eBay and Google see from them.
It’s particularly timely - as I’m in Seoul Korea pitching. I’m trying to convince this huge company to spend all this money and then giveaway all the code - to us. […]

Thomas Hawk interview of Jeremy Allaire

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

I’m turning into a bit of a Jeremy Allaire stalker - so much so that folks send me interviews of him.
So thanks Thomas for reminding me how coolio BrightCove is. Here’s Thomas’ interview.

Macromedia’s hidden back-door in Flash

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

I poised this question yesterday and got a response from Macromedia…..
MARC:
“Oh BTW - what’s the story with this hidden backdoor in the flash player - that only Macromedia gets to use?”
ANSWER:
What “backdoor”?
How can others see what you’re seeing?
John Dowdell
Macromedia Support

Dear John,
It is a well known fact among insiders that Macromedia has built an undocumented […]

A tipping point

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

The notion of on-demand news has always been at the base of the blogosphere.
But before the blogosphere there was Interactive TV - and the base of that (besides the hype of on-demand movies) was on-demand news. TV news.
But it didn’t surprise me that in the late 90’s anyone brave enough to go and try […]