Archive for August, 2005

Great OpenLaszlo Review by Greg Yardley

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

So Greg Yardley saw something I wrote up on Laszlo and he went and took a look.
He finds many of the ‘limiting factors’ of Laszlo directly because of their reliance on Flash. Watch for this to change. Can I hear you say “Vi-Vi-Vi-Vi-Vista?”
[via Peter Caputa]

Pandora and Laszlo

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Thomas Conrad the CTO of Pandora - just made it clear:
Monday, August 29, 2005
Pandora and OpenLaszlo
“Our just-now-launched music discovery service, Pandora, is an OpenLaszlo application. It wouldn’t be fair to finish up our launch without a tip of the hat to the amazing Laszlo team and open source community.
Eight months ago when we sat down […]

Open Letter to Randy Farmer, Stewart & Caterina, Brad Horowitz and all you other Yahoos

Monday, August 29th, 2005

OK - so I hate to say I told you so - but at last week’s meeting I insinuated that Yahoo HAD to support open identity standards to survive and continue your leadership towards a new open Yahoo.
I suggested Sxip Networks - and you (Randy) replied with ‘maybe Liberty’.
Well may I make a suggestion that […]

Call for artist/designers

Monday, August 29th, 2005

OK it’s come to this.
All of my existing artist resources are now working for us or have retired. The old guard has been tapped out.
Time to recruit newbies, ready to change their lives and never look back.
Tired of doing boring bullshit?
Tired of trying to convince you’re boss you’re right?
Need an environment to work in […]

Closing up August with a shitload of links

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Once again I fund myself hopelessly behind. I barely had time to setup Google Talk, try out Pandora and Flock and try and grok HALF the web services and applications being thrown at us for GoingOn.
I guess this is all a good thing, except that I have real work to do for our clients […]

Speaking of onerous terms

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Not only are folks resisting and bitching about Adam Curry’s Podshow terms of usage, but I met a kid named Josh Wolf who actually read the terms over at Al Gore’s ‘CurrentTV’.
Let’s summarize Al’s terms as follows:

I hereby grant to Current the exclusive, royalty-free perpetual right to exhibit, display and otherwise distribute my Submission via […]

Les Blogs 2.0

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

I tried to put my name down for Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris - Dec. 5-6 (since I’m in London once a month anyway) - but I couldn’t find where to put my name?
I won’t miss a chance to worship Robert Scoble or be in the same room as Barak and Joi - at the […]

On the Decline at the Movies

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Here’s an upcoming Mark Cuban post - which he sent to the pho list - first.
All this talk of movies being bad, theaters being bad,etc,etc is all basically a joke.
First off, the easiest thing in the world to do is fine something wrong w any entertainment outlet or any piece of content
Find me the perfect […]

Why PubSub is fastest and best

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Bob Wyman describes why PubSub’s algorithms are faster than everyone elses. PubSub beats Google (and everybody else)
I love Bob.
He’s that IETF guy - who stod at the back of the auditorium at Gnomedex, chiming in about Atom. PubSub was fucking up eariler this summer, but is now back - humming along.
Many folks like […]

Beats waiting in line at the Border

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Now that’s what I call ART.