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]
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 to figure out how were were going to deliver a compelling zero-install discovery and listening experience across Windows, Mac, and Linux in record time we considered everything you can imagine: plain old HTML, AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo to name just a few. In the end, Laszlo was the clear winner on all fronts. Mature, reliable, and the perfect tool for the job. This outcome was only remarkable in that the decision was made by some of the most capable AJAX developers on the planet. I’ll have more to say about Laszlo in another post, but for now I just want to publicly say thanks to the great team at Lazslo. Pandora wouldn’t be Pandora without you.”
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 you take a design from our GoingOn playbook and go for the all tits out, Identity Hub approach.
I mean why support only one identity standard? Certainly whatever the hell Microsoft and Kim Cameron come up with - you should support! Right? And my friends at the Identity Commons would LOVE IT if you’d support their i-names standard.
And I’m sure you’ve heard of OpenID from SixApart.
All these identity standards can easily be supported so your Flickr users don’t have to get all pissed off and feel like they’re being locked in. They should feel that Yahoo is their hub, their center of the digital ID universe.
That’s what the new Yahoo should do.
And oh, while you’re at it - it’s time to support Jabber - too.
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 that fosters creatviity, pushes you to your limit and then some and rewards you with……[insert here]
So Broadband Mechanics is hiring artist and design types. Work with me directly to design UIs for DLAs.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about - don’t bother to apply.
And oh - did I tell yah you can stay at home - wherever you are around the world? We’re completely virtual!
Send URLs of existing work to:
marc [at] broadbandmechanics.com
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 and nobody takes the excuse “I was blogging” seriously.
Sure that’s how they found me, that’s how they got to know me and that’s how our ideas are getting out - but life is still about deliverables, show me the code and products. Compelling user experience products.
So forgive me for being brief, but here we go:
Now that they’re as important as MTV, MySpace is starting a label. I can just hear Mark Pincus’ teeth grinding. And lord knows - Jonathan Abrams isn’t walking down University Ave. bragging about how cool he is - anymore. I just hope the folks at Fox don’t mess with it.
I love this article on Rod Smith. I’ve known hm for years and I recently sat in a Gastro Pub In Reading, England talking to Rod - in North Carolina, while Sam Ruby was in the room. God Bless IBM being into open standards. They’re making the world a better place.
Charlie Schick talks about what it takes to make a mobile app. Charlie is now my #2 guy to read about this stuff, after Russell Beattie (of course.)
I actually grok the vision of what Sun is claiming they wanna do with an open DRM kind of approach. I just don’t trust them. Clearly the world wants to mix and match iTunes with Napster with Rhapsody with Yahoo with…… But what does Sun think they can do - that others can’t? And why Sun? Anyway - this will be fun to watch, just to watch Cory Doctorow burrow deep holes into their bodies.
It’s all about money down in LaLa and it’s amusing that just the notion of renting lots of office space gets Hollywood’s attention. Congrats to Yahoo for taking over where MGM once stood. I’ve been ot that office park many a time. I won’t even tell yah what went down in the parking lot there.
I got the word early on Pandora - not because it is a great music product, but because it’s built with Laszlo.
Here’s a bizarre strory of one of the members of ColdPlay sending a childish letter (auf Deutsch) to Kraftwerk to ask them permission to use one of their tracks on an upcoming ColdPLay album. Do these folks know of the Creative Commons? More on ColdPlay l8r.
I never got a chance to say congrats to Anil, Mena, Benn, Barak, Loic, Joi, Andrew, Michael and the rest of those 6Aers on the release of MT 3.2.
Years before it was called Ajax, we were developing stuff like that. Then along came Laszlo and rewrote the book. Folks are more and more waking up to the future. It’s incredible. Wait till you see Laszlo’s Earthlink email client.
Great story on Brad Horowitz at Yahoo - Yahoo: The Super Network. The cutlure inside of Yahoo right now is raging. God it’s energetic to just be there.
Gotta go learn about MediaPortal. It’s on sourceforge. Maybe they should hook up with Orb.
MTV is attempting to make up for Live8 with the VMAs. We’ll see.
Apparently the ‘distributed application’ meme via microformats got a good push at Bar Camp. Tantek rapped it out and Peter Caputa picked it up (via remediatation by Yatta at unmediated.)
Folks on the pho list are debating whether Edgar Bronfman’s speech in Aspen really did trigger “The War is Over“.
Here’s another way to make money from ‘the Long Tail’.
Dave Winer gets in Reviewing. I really like it when Jason Kottke reviews things - too. Likewise - the Head Lemur.
GlitchTV utilizes the Internet Archive - too.
The conspiracy is growing - HEY YAHOO - time to support Jabber!
Speaking of Joason Kottke he’s been busy. After declaring himself through with Technorati - he then raps out the WebOS. Right on brother.
OK - I’m tried. Now onto ROME.
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 Current’s web site for a period of three (3) months.
Nuf said.
BTW Josh looks like the spitting image of Chris Pirillo - his younger borther!
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 same time.
And besdies - maybe my friends at Glowria.fr will finally have their act together by then, only one year later - and start our project again.
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 place or piece, and we will have something to talk about
As far as movies, which generation had bettere movies ?
Was it when I was a kid and those classic 3 stooges and snow white or santa claus were out ?
Was it all the kids screaming and throwing popcorn at the screen backthen that mase them great ?
Was it that the studios knew they had us because we lived in a no vcr ,
4 tv channel universe ?The 50s,60,70s, 80s, 90s, all had great movies and lousy movies. The only difference is that back then people and the media didn’t take such pleasure in using boxoffice and revenues as a scorecard
No one cared.
You went to the movies or didn’t
I remember when I was in college going to movies w my buddies , taking
a12 pack and getting trashed. I’m sure we were a pleasure to be next to.
Quite the golden age if you ask me
If only we had cellphones to casll each other and tell how drunk we wereIf the movies have been so lousy over the last year how come dvd sales for movies haven’t fallen off a cliff. Sales per title have fallen as more titles have come out, but people are buying movies and the biggest sellers are the nrewest movies.
And if the movie experience is so bad, why aren’t we at multi year lows in attendance ?
Why aren’t PPV sales of movies, which is the first chance people get to watch the latest releases at home, and for far less than the cost of a dvd, way up ?
The logic just cracks me up.
The movies are so bad, and the theater experience is so horrible, that I will wait 4 months to pay 25 dollars to watch it at home in a scenario where I know without question that something or someone will distract me. Where either I or my significant other will have to cleanup and after which at somepoint in the not too distant future, one of us will complain that we never get out of the house
How about we just face the same truths that every entertainment biz faces. There is more competition and choices these days, so we all have to work a little harder.
The fact that movies have continued to grow in the face of expanding entertainment options is one that should make the industry proud
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 PubSub the best. Me - I’m just a marketing guy - but I can tell you that PubSub’s “Structured Blogging” efforts rock.
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