Monday, May 03, 2004

Independent: "The BBC will launch a pilot project that could lead to all television programmes being made available on the internet." 

Lots of good places to vacation for 60-90 days this summer, in Europe, places suitable for thinking, writing, swimming, planning, programming 

News.Com: "The European Commission has warned organizations that collect royalties on behalf of musicians that they may be breaking competition rules by extending their national monopolies onto the Internet." 

A new feed with items about the Google IPO.  

Wow, this is cool. The next release of Microsoft's OneNote will import OPML outlines. Very good. Of course it should export them too. The old Microsoft would never have done this, in fact there's an old Microsoft guy running around the syndication community, he's one of the biggest advocates of reinventing everything just for the sake of revinvention. It takes a lot for a big company like Microsoft to adopt a format developed outside, esp one not developed at another BigCo. Thanks for setting a great example. Google, please pay attention to this. You lose nothing by keeping the number of formats small, by building on other people's work instead of undermining it, by not being evil. You already knew that, at the top, but perhaps some of the new guys don't understand what it means. It's in the company prospectus. So I hope you won't mind if we hold you to a higher standard. I assume that's why it's there.  

CNET has the Google prospectus in PDF format. 

Russell Beattie: "Google changed their contract to include a gag clause preventing anyone who uses Adsense to talk about it publicly." 

Now I get on a train to Cologne and then to Amsterdam. It's a bright sunny day here in Bonn, overlooking the Rhine River. Auf wiedersen y'all! 

NY Times: "Four years after the stock market plunged under the weight of lifeless dot-com stocks and other technology losers, Mr Doerr is as upbeat about the potential of Internet start-ups as ever -- and now his faith will be rewarded with billions from Google, the Web search company, when it goes public." 

Harold Gilchrist says it's time for audio blogs to have their own weblogs.com. We can do it if there's enough interest -- weblogs.com has the ability to spawn new communities. So if there are enough audio blogs or tools to start one, let's do it. Probably the best way to find out is to create a post and ask people with audio blogs to comment.