It’s official: Netscape engineers are weenies. Microsoft put a deliberate security hole in FrontPage 1998. Whoops.A Guardian interview with Nielsen and Norman (among others) has this quote: “Controllable, predictable, comprehensible, that’s my mantra.”. This is exactly what we’re coming up with at the moment looking at “Autonomy” vs the other search engines (e.g. “Verity”). Good stuff.So here you are. I’m based in the UK, so if you don’t like my site, you know how to get rid of it. Unfortunate.
Archive for April, 2000
Amusing - IBM is pulling back from Win2k. Read it here.It’s all over! GartnerGroup Predicts Dot-Com Doom And Gloom: “We believe that the vast majority — perhaps 95 to 98 percent — of all dot-com companies will fail over the next 24 months”. Smoking!What on earth is he talking about? … “even if he did call them ‘random access devices’ a few times in a lapse into technospeak.” Good discussion of what all of those boxes are that we stare at day-in, day-out.
Dan Gilmour gets it right again. There are two articles on this page about Patents and the DNS system, both of which make considerable sense. If people have patents, they can only use open-source if they license their patents as well. If they don’t, they must pay. Neato.I’m looking into the power of controlled group discussions and review - this article discusses part of the issue. Consumers are cleverer than any individual reviewer.
