Burnette's EclipseCon 2006 tour
ZDNet blogger and Eclipse maven Ed Burnette is making the rounds at EclipseCon 2006, which is happening this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Check out his daily coverage.
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Mix '06: Gates ready to embrace and extend
Bill Gates keynoted at Mix '06, outlining Microsoft's evolving Web development strategy and explaining his embrace and extend business philosophy, especially as it applies to Google.Gates' most covered statement of the morning was, "Everything we do now, we have to be user-centric, not device-centric.
Internet Identity Workshop
Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be hosting the second Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) in Mountain View, CA on May 1-3, 2006. IIW deals with what people are calling user-centric identity and Identity 2.
Sun Grid rising at network.com
In his latest blog post, Jonathan Schwartz laments that the slow transformation toward multitenant grids behind corporate firewalls at the same time as he promotes Sun's forthcoming Grid service (starting with 5,000 CPU sockets, a mix of Ultrasparc and Opteron), which will live under the network.com URL (which came with the StorageTek acquisition.
Woophy's view of Earth
Woophy is a site that organizes photographs by the location at which they were taken. Users can click on a town or city and view the associated pictures.
DearAOL.com coalition tangles with Esther Dyson over Goodmail's CertifiedEmail approach to spam eradication
On Friday, Esther Dyson wrote a New York Times op-ed piece, “You've Got Goodmail,” in which she advocated for Goodmail Systems’ freedom to pursue a 'certified' approach to dealing with the problem of spam and fraud on the Internet. She wrote:What Goodmail is proposing is a sort of FedEx for e-mail.
Ray Ozzie meets the Gillmor Gang
Worth listening to: During a conversation with the Gillmor Gang a earlier this month, Ray Ozzie drilled deeper into Live Clipboard and Microsoft's plans for connecting Microsoft's 'legacy' applications and the Internet. It's a good conversation, especially in the context of Microsoft's Mix '06 conference this week.
NetSuite goes vertical
NetSuite is going vertical, with a software industry-specific edition. I caught up with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson at PC Forum who described the software vertical as a "single system from lead to renewal.
Attention on the brain
Attention was the subject of the SDForum Search SIG tonight at AOL's Mountain View office. In fact, it's been the subject of attention and lively debate for the last few weeks, especially at the recent ETech to PC Forum conferences.
Quote of the Day: Mark Cuban
If there can be a Photo of the Day in this blog, then why not a Quote of the Day? On page 90 of this week's issue of Time Magazine is a quote of Mark Cuban saying:In the past, you had to memorize knowledge because there was a cost to finding it.