Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting. The Ajax Experience no longer has the dubious distinction of have no women in its speaker list. It now has Molly Holzschlag. Since I know absolutely squat about JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest other than what they do, it’s rather humorous I’d get picked up for such a seriously geeky conference as […]
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Web 1.0 must die
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I think Web 2.0 is killing Web 1.0. I think there’s a ‘young eating their parent’ thing going on. Amazon has been using its resources to put out S3 and the new video service at the same time that the company’s bread & butter online store seems to be taking […]
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And the young eats itself
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Liz Gannes at GigaOM writes a story on Evan Williams and Odeo, and Williams confession at the recent Web Apps of the Future yak fest. Williams talks about how he royally screwed up with his startup, Odeo, burning through it sounds like millions, hiring a staff of 14, all to build […]
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Office of the Future
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What the heck, it’s Friday so I might as well push Nick Carr’s post up the techmeme flag pole. I can agree with Carr on the following: Whatever the flaws of Microsoft Office, most end users are comfortable with it – and they have little motivation to overturn the apple cart. What […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Don at Hands in Dirt has a lovely and very personal remembrance of Ann Richards, former governor of Texas, who passed away on Wednesday. I don’t think there’s a feminist who doesn’t remember one of Richards most famous quotes, from the 1988 Democratic Convention: Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She […]