by Tom | Apr 9, 2002 | General
Don’t Buy Hollywood’s Broadband Script. Good debunking of the Hollywood anti-digital stand. Hollywood declared videos illegal when they first came on the scene. They now take $11bn a year, around half the industry’s revenues. The same will happen...
by Tom | Apr 9, 2002 | General
Transfer Drawings from Paper to Handheld with InkLink. This is like the Cross Pad, but a clip on. I wonder which partner will get one first?
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
The whole grid computing initiative, e.g. the Globus Project, is very much a large-scale way of utilising the enormous quantity of wasted resources within BigCos. It might just work.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
We’ll be able to store all the Library of Congress on a laptop by 2008.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
“Adam Vandenberg had an aha moment thinking about Radio in relation to Microsoft Sharepoint. He’s right that everything we do is about presence. Our scaling strategy is Apache. (In other words static HTML and XML where ever possible, and using CPU cycles...
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
Why Napster is Right Great rant about copyright, Napster etc. “We should be able to sell music we legally purchase.” That should be obvious, no?
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
Phone driving worse than drink driving. Don’t do it.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
DVD Easter Eggs . Marvellous.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
Plastic: New Pay-For-Play Music Subscription Services Reviewed. Conclusion: they sort of suck.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
The Gentry, Misjudged as Neighbors.This seems relatively obvious: gentrification doesn’t drive out poorer residents as a) the area is getting nicer and b) the longer they stay, the more the supply/demand differential rises and therefore the more they get when...
