May 31, 2001

Corporate Portals Ready For The Big Time

“The use of corporate portals continues to pick up steam among large companies. The key seems to be the desire for organized information and a place to direct internal marketing.”

From: Corporate Portals Ready For The Big Time – Report

May 30, 2001

Subliminal messages for your PC

bizarre … “A US company has produced a gadget that reacts to audio signals embedded in TV programmes and tells your PC to surf over to webpages related to that show.”

From: BBC News | SCI/TECH | From goggle box to chatterbox

May 25, 2001

More net convergence: Flash meets TV

“The entertainment industry is learning new tricks from the Web that could dramatically reduce costs and recast a widely used Net animation technology as a significant offline production tool.”

i’ll be on the lookout for “The Martoon Channel” on my cable system soon!

May 23, 2001

Collaboration is one of the top three trends of 2000

“The onslaught OF dispersed work forces along with increased competition and shorter product cycles means collaboration between employees and business partners is at a critical juncture. Collaboration tools are an important means for turning the travel time and expense of old into work time and increased profits.”

From: Create working offices on the Web

May 23, 2001

ASPs bring business to the Web

“Web collaboration ASPs provide a useful, rapid approach to implementing a collaboration strategy that reduces costs while increasing knowledge exchange and accessibility.”

“… estimated spending on Web collaboration ASPs is expected to climb with a growth curve that reflects the overall ASP marketplace. In 1999 IDC estimated that $250 million was spent on outsourcing collaboration. By 2004, the firm believes the figure will reach $2 billion worldwide.”

“The business benefits of leveraging a Web collaboration ASP far outweigh the drawbacks. With the services available today, companies can increase communication internally and externally. In addition, the investment in the internal server infrastructure needed to support collaboration is greatly reduced, if not eliminated.”

May 16, 2001

18 million Car – Parts

tangential advice … when getting your car fixed, order your own parts and ship them to your mechanic. i was going to be charged $500 for a new distributor. i went online and found a refurbished distributor for $115 (including shipping) using the parts search service @ http://car-part.com/

sweet!

May 11, 2001

Spare CPU cycles getting you down?

Then help fight “The Big Casino” with Your Mom!

May 10, 2001

Bike New York 2001 Pictures

well, this year i finally rigged my camera bag so that i could easily get to the cam while i was riding, because everyone who has ever ridden with me knows how much i like to stop :-) however, the downside is that none of the pictures are of me … (well, that was a bit by design!) anyway, here are the pictures i took during Bike New York 2001

May 7, 2001

Bike New York 2001 Pictures

Well, this year I finally rigged my camera bag so that I could easily get to the cam while I was riding, because everyone who has ever ridden with me knows how much I like to stop :-) However, the downside is that none of the pictures are of me … (well, that was a bit by design!) anyway, here are the pictures I took during Bike New York 2001

May 3, 2001

Peering into the future

an interesting article at Infoworld about how P2P will be used in the enterprise. there is also a sidebar, "Client or server? Peers at last" by Ray Ozzie of GrooveNetworks

“Putting p-to-p to use in enterprises means blending it with client/server networks”

“A recently released study from Gartner concluded that … by 2003 30 percent of corporations will have at least experimented with Data Centered p-to-p applications”