Viridian Note 00283: Geeks
by Tom | Dec 4, 2001 | General |
| Viva IMAP!. All’s I got to say is — IMAP is the way to go. I’ve got to do this at some stage – have to work on some way of archiving that I have semi-permanent access to, though. 11:04:36 AM |
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| IBM DeveloperWorks: An interface only a mother could love. Nor is the issue exclusive to WAP, although that sorry excuse for a standard has plenty of problems of its own. Instead, I think it’s more a product of ivory tower planning and a general inattention to real-world user acceptance testing. And the problem is ubiquitous. [Tomalak’s Realm] 10:43:56 AM |
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| IBM DeveloperWorks: Physician, heal thyself. Ahh, the Web page. A large blank blue field. The source code included a JavaScript hack that redirected me to a different page, as well as an image I could click on to get into their home page — but the image file didn’t exist, so all I saw was a blank blue page. [Tomalak’s Realm] 10:41:42 AM |
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| CIO: People Who Need People. Instead of generating value in the form of increased revenues or even customer loyalty, they just sucked up the resources of employees who could be deployed on other Web projects and used money that could be spent on other applications. [Tomalak’s Realm] 10:38:23 AM |
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| Cringely: Why .NET will fail. MS will use bad publicity from the first few releases plus some poaching to improve .Net. “During their due-diligence visits, the Microsoft team figured out who at Intuit were the brains Microsoft wanted, and they recruited them.” 10:36:36 AM |
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| Microsoft aims for its next target: CRM. This could get nasty, and the competition has a five- to ten-year head start. 10:32:07 AM |
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| Lots of cool themes for Windows XP are on http://www.themexp.org/. [Scoble’s Windows XP News (was http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/index.html marked bad)] 10:23:16 AM |
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