Diary of a Start-Up
the rise and fall of ArsDigita and lessons from the world of venture capital
The Disruptive Start-Up: Clayton Christensen On How To Compete With The Best
from Inc.com an interview with Clayton Christensen On How To Compete With The Best
P2P content syndication
Werner Vogels from Cornell has an interesting presentation on P2P content syndication
Old news: Browser War is Dead ...
“Analysts note that with Internet Explorer’s nearly 90 percent penetration, consumer behavior is not expected to change — especially if users would be required open their pocketbooks in order to make a switch.”
From: Computer News: Microsoft: AOL ‘Completely Mismanaged’ Netscape
AOL Shuts out Trillian ; but Google always amazes me
I noticed that the Trillian IM client stopped connecting to AOL the other day. So, I went to Google to see if I could find a posting on Usenet via Google Groups about the blockage (because Usenet is were I always look first for breaking news). However, I inadvertently typed my search query ("trillian aol") into the main Google search box and to my surprise the first two links we labeled “News” and highlighted two articles posted today on CNET and The Register.
Is DHTML Dead?
… a question asked and answered in detail by senior editor A. Russell Jones in article on DevX:
“The bottom line is: DHTML is dead for serious application development; browsers, as application delivery platforms, are past their peak; and the future of distributed, interactive applicationsat least on Windowsbelongs to .NET. If you’re developing these types of applications and you’re not learning .NET, you may want to rethink your career plans.”
Version 2.0 of Morpheus (soon)
MusicCity is close to releasing version 2.0 of Morpheus with support for searching Gnutella
Collaboration, suddenly, is cool.
the following are quotes from an interesting article titled “Culture of Collaboration”, which includes 10 recommendations for getting employees to adopt collaborative tools and use them in an effective way.
“The biggest challenge of getting employees to work together online isn’t a technological problem-it’s a cultural and organizational one.”
“The danger for many is overspending on collaborative technologies without making the cultural and organizational adjustments necessary to derive any benefit from them."
Interview with Christopher Locke
Publish magazing has an interview with Christopher Locke in which he talks about his new book, Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices
New tools ease portal creation
this sounds a lot like Web Parts … “OnePage Inc. and Enfish Corp. each released new software to enable corporate users to organize corporate information in portals … OnePage’s Content Connect Studio doesn’t replace portal frameworks from other companies; it augments them with the capability to create, manage and integrate portlets (pieces of code that capture and embed data) into many enterprise portal platforms”