by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Is software innovation gone?. According to an article by Rob Pike from Bell Labs, software innovation is more or less dead (and Microsoft isn’t at fault). For example: high-end PC hardware went from 33Mhz/32MB RAM in 1990 to 600Mhz/512MB RAM in 2000, but in that...
by Tom | Feb 27, 2002 | General
The Iceberg Secret, Revealed “Customers Don’t Know What They Want. Stop Expecting Customers to Know What They Want”. Absolutely 100% on the money.
by Tom | Feb 27, 2002 | General
File-swapping network locks out users. Morpheus–a file-swapping service that many have said would be impossible for courts to shut down–shuts out most of its users, citing “technical problems.” [CNET News.com]
by Tom | Feb 27, 2002 | General
Newsbytes: “Lawyers for makers of the file-sharing applications Morpheus and Grokster say that, if their clients can be held responsible for illegal copies of music and motion pictures, then so too should companies such as Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, whose...
by Tom | Feb 27, 2002 | General
Observations From a Weblogger. Dan Bricklin with some sensible ruminations on what a weblog is actually about. I think we should bin the journalism / not journalism debate now. Some jounalists use weblogs to express themselves, but this doesn’t mean that weblogs...
by Tom | Feb 27, 2002 | General
Great Reg rant on Jack Valenti’s piece.