February 4, 2003

Rainbow Portal Project

“Rainbow Project, an open source Content Management System (CMS) based on MicrosoftÂ’s .NET IBUYSPY portal application.”

I’m starting to really dig the IBS portal framework Microsoft made available to demonstrate .Net

February 4, 2003

Microsoft’s SPOT: The Atari Connection

“Microsoft’s SPOT smart objects might indeed be tomorrow’s technology Â– if you were living in the 1980’s. That’s because the technology used in SPOT, FM subcarrier transmission, was originally used as a last-gasp effort by the Atari 2600 to distribute games wirelessly over the radio.” (via ExtremeTech)

February 3, 2003

Top 25 Simpsons Episodes

“25 best episodes of The Simpsons according to Entertainment Weekly“

February 2, 2003

People in Knowledge Working

Jonathan Peterson writes in his Amateur Hour column, “Web content can always go lower and be more Â“realÂ”. More positively; without advertisersÂ’ demands for Â“reachÂ”, individuals can aspire to the most intimate, emotional artistic visions. Andy WarholÂ’s 15 minutes of fame is closer at hand than ever before…”

“Instant messaging, ubiquitous connectivity (SMS, two-way paging, etc), project blogging, k-logs, XML and other technologies are going to allow us to turn the computer from a replacement for the secretarial pool into a tool for collaborative knowledge working.” (link via Kevin Werbach)

February 1, 2003

Links to the Columbia Shuttle Disaster

Scott Adams has been keeping track of links to the Columbia Shuttle Disaster (via Scripting)

So sad. My heart goes out to the crew’s families.

January 31, 2003

Trust Metrics

Mike Sugarbaker: “It’s very simple: there are some friends you’d trust with your seat at Starbucks, but far fewer you’d trust with your car keys, and even fewer with, say, your sister in a tube top.”

January 30, 2003

Google Intelligence Gathering .Net Application

“Juice is an alternate browser with built-in support for Google’s search API. With Juice, you don’t just search for information, you gather information.” (via ScriptingNews)

Looks interesitng. Although, I have similary functionality right within this Blog by integrating the Google API with post meta data

January 30, 2003

business begin to cash in on weblogs

From The Guardian: “The idea is that blogs can help a business present information and develop new ideas. They can bring out and spread the expertise within a company. ”

“using weblogs … to promote company ideas and show off their knowledge.”

January 30, 2003

My wife’s new blog

So cool! My wife [Catbird.org] has ported her blog over to B2. She’s such a hot geek :-)

January 29, 2003

Open Source Blog and CMS Portal

OS-CMS is an informative portal that lists and briefly summarizes many of the Open Source CMS and Blog tools available. However, what makes this portal special is that they also provide demos of each.