BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Gartner has come out with a press release titled 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle which …assesses the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 36 key technologies and trends during the next ten years. The report is broken down into three main categories: Web 2.0, Real World Web, and Application Architecture. I find myself agreeing […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Nat at O’Reilly Radar writes on the importance of standards in web page design, making me very happy. He wrote: The point of the standards is not just to ensure that browsers can display the pages. The standards also ensure the pages form a platform that can be built upon; a hacked-together […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two excellent posts from Sheila to pass on: The latest covers the Lieberman defeat and the ludicrous accusations that the Joe Lieberman site was hacked. As was discovered and discussed in numerous publications, the Lieberman campaign hosted the site on a cheap server, and then paid the price when it received too […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Nikon has released its new D80 digital SLR, and Digital Photo Preview has a first look. From the side by sides, the D80 is similar to the D200. However, the D80 is focused as a D70 replacement, not a direct competitor for the D200. The D200 has more exposure options and is […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ed Batista excerpted part of what Jason Calcanis had to say about re-inventing oneself, taped during a Dave Winer coffee notes: You have to reinvent yourself, and sometimes you have to kill your previous persona. I had to kill [my] Silicon Alley Reporter persona to become Weblogs, Inc. I’ll have to kill […]