Essays and everything else

Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.

September 22, 2003

Shareware MP3 Music
Magnatune: “try before you buy.” It’s the shareware model applied to music.
September 17, 2003

VeriSign Still Sucks
Is there anything else VeriSign can do to demonstrate its hatred of customers? Oh yeah, it certainly can!
September 16, 2003

Intraspect sold to Vignette
“Enterprise collaboration and groupware company Intraspect Software has been sold to public company Vignette for $20m in cash and stock.”
September 12, 2003

Collaboration Culture
From Collaboration: The Microsoft Way: “Microsoft’s collaborative culture makes the company very responsive to competitive threats. The character also means Microsoft can quickly …
September 10, 2003

Reinventing Products
James Dyson says, “It is much easier to reinvent the wheel because the faults of the existing system are fairly obvious,” he contends. “The hard part is to find a solution that …
September 8, 2003

Personal Search Tool
I just tested X1 for a few minutes and I’m truly impressed with its ability to quickly index and search my local repository of files and email messages.
September 5, 2003

Web Recall
The Internet Archive has release a new tool that allows you to search for relevant pages from 1996 until today.
September 4, 2003

My Yahoo Supports RSS
Very cool! I just read on Library Stuff that you can now use My Yahoo as an RSS news aggregator.
September 2, 2003

SnapStream Personal Video Station 3.0 review
“Would I trade a TiVo for a small PC running Snapstream? After playing with it for a few weeks, I’d have to say it is certainly possible. A home theater PC can do more than a TiVo …
September 2, 2003

Explorer bar Maker
“Explorer Bar (Band) Maker is a Windows tool (one-step wizard) that lets you create your own Explorer bar from any HTML page, picture or Macromedia Flash file.” (via Anil Dash’s …