Business Plan Archive. Got $350k to store and analyse the failed dotcom business plans. Surely the grant application was the epitome?
Archive for June, 2002
Digital Identity World: Interview with Palladium’s Mario Juarez. What is the benefit to users to have code running on their machine that they can’t observe? What is the benefit to having keys which aren’t even accessible to a computer’s owner? [Hack the Planet]
Faud in Hicksville. Interesting point that a lot of the recent frauds have been based out of the major financial / business centers. This makes it easier to pull the wool over people’s eyes, as there is more loyalty in the smaller cities.
Something is obviously working online - look at the growth in users. The question is: can you charge for it? Alternatively, you could argue that this has replaced advertisting for spend, so get used to happier customers without advertising.
37bettermotors by 37signals. Sorting out the motoring site.
Jambusters eye cellphones. Sounds like an interesting idea: track cellphones to see if they are moving or not, and locate those on major roadways. You can aggregate information to see if there are traffic jams or not.
EMusic. I’m almost tempted to join. I’ll have to think about it some more, but it looks like reasonable value, and there are some good names / tracks there.
Clueless Mailers: The Latest Ugly Trend in Spamming. Great map of the spam industry.
Mobile phone meets PDA - from here to Wi-Fi. Review of the Treo, XDA and iMode.
Boxes & Arrows: Computer Human Values. Nathan Shedroff. When producers of the first personal computers initially launched them into the market over 20 years ago, they could think of no better use for them than storing recipes and balancing one’s checkbook. They couldn’t predict how deep computers (and related devices) would seep into our lives. [Tomalak's Realm]
MS releases Web Matrix dev tool. ASP .NET FOC [The Register] ASP.Net looks interesting, as does the free single user designer. It’s like a freebie version of Visual Studio .Net. Not bad.
Darwin: The Semantic Argument Web. David Weinberger. I fear that the Semantic Web will go the way of SGML and for basically the same reason: normalization of metadata works real well in confined applications where the payoff is high, control is centralized and discipline can be enforced. In other words: not the Web. [Tomalak's Realm]
Satellite Back From The Dead Great story.
The Register on Palldium. Interesting spin: the Palladium scheme means that binaries will have to be certified, which means that the GPL becomes useless. You can improve a product, even release your own version, but it won’t be Palladium-certified, and therefore may not even run on Palladium-compliant hardware. That’s a biggie.
WorldCom discovers massive apparent fraud. Whoosh. How many more? NYTims version.
Aspirin reduces cancer risk. Yet more evidence that we should all be taking aspirin a few times a week.
Is Clear Channel selling hit singles? Sounds like this will be the next casualty. I guess there’s nothing similar in the UK.
All You Need Is Love, $50 Billion, and Killer Software Code-Named Longhorn .Interview with Bill Gates. Interesting.
