Sunday, June 06, 1999

Recently Updated Channels is the state of the art of human web trawling technology. Murphy willing!

The Woodside phenomenon keeps building! Newsweek.Com features the first chapter of David Kaplan's scathing expose of Silicon Valley politics in of all places, Woodside, the same little town that hosts BucksWoodside.Com. Good readin!

Rebecca Eisenberg: Browser wars over? They should be. "Meanwhile, as I was switching from Netscape to Internet Explorer, at Moscone Center Andreessen was admonishing the crowd for not creating applications that are easy enough to use. Keep it simple, he was saying. Don't make users download and install things. If you make your software too hard too use, you will lose customers."

SJ Merc: Silicon Valley's Spectacular Failure. "Ultimately, Go flopped because it misjudged its customers, the difficulty of its technology and the strength of its corporate partnerships."

SJ Merc: Microsoft Office 2000 and the Web. "In any Office 2000 application, you can select Save to the Web from the File menu at the top of the screen. You can then open Web Folders and put the Office 2000 document directly onto the server, with Office 2000 automatically handling the chore of translating the Word document or Excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint presentation into HTML." I want it to be even easier!

A new mail list is forming to do XML-RPC for Tcl.

NY Times: Why Internet Investors Are Still Ravenous. "Stocks not ready for prime time were foisted on a welcoming public lusting for the big score, they now say. In Silicon Valley's effervescence the past few months, discretion lost out to greed."

The first banner ad worth placing on Scripting News.

I had a brief phone talk yesterday with Eric S. Raymond, the champion of Open Source. I thought it was worth mentioning. I was hoping we could talk about ways of working together, but he just said Open Source was the thing that mattered, so I said Nice to meet you! and left it at that.

Over the weekend I started playing with a Cobalt Qube that my friend Doc Searls got for me. Thanks to Rick Eames I was able to figure out how to get in. I'm in!