Archive for March, 2008

links for 2008-03-08

// March 8th, 2008 // No Comments » // Links

Steve Keynote at Mix’08 – Microsoft, the underdog

// March 6th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // technology

Guy Kawasaki of all people interviewing Steve Ballmer. Very funny interaction, good questions and great answers.

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The new Microsoft

// March 6th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // society

On MIX08, Guy Kawasaki made a great observation to Steve Ballmer: for his kids (about 12 years old) , who have never known the browser-war and the OS-war, Microsoft is that cool company that brings the XBOX360 and Halo…

who digged digg and where?

// March 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // society, technology

An interesting question asked here at a panel discussion with some web 2.0 “guru’s” handled a question asked by the audience.

Kevin Rose ( the founder of Digg) explained the steps that brought Digg the critical mass in the audience:

  1. Kevin’s own blog had about a 100 readers. He started posting its data here.
  2. The application was used by some friends of the readers of the blog, and they communicated it to their friend.
  3. At a certain point, webmasters started to notice the amount of hits coming form this new site, and started blogging about it and linking to it
  4. And the rest is history

The first requirement was off course the fat that a cool application was needed to have it started. No matter how powerfull the network is, a noncool application will not be picked up.

the shirt for IE8

// March 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // technology

Tijdens de voorstelling van Internet Explorer 8, had Dean Hachamovitch een shirtje aan, dat tot nu de best aangepaste kledij voor een spreker was hier op MIX08. By the way, ik had meer data beloofd over IE8, maar Jim heeft een schitterende post gemaakt over zijn eerste indrukken met IE8 waarbij mijn postje maar in het niets zou zinken :-)

MIX08 – David Armano’s Session

// March 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // society

I attended yesterday a session presented by David Armano at MIX08. I enjoyed the presentation, that touched several subjects that I have some outspoken ideas about. However, when updating my Twitter today, I noticed today that David was a little moved by the fact that some people left his session before it was over.

Being one of them David, please know that as far as I could see, most of the people enjoyed the presentation (I did !).

A few of us tought (and I can partially agree) that we enjoyed the ideas and the toughts you gave us. But… (there’s always a but, isn’t there) some of us missed the link/transition between the different ideas. That didn’t made us leave the room. What did? Well, we expirienced a death-by-demo’s during the morning keynotes and some of us couldn’t stand another flashy, geeky demo. No quality judgement on the demo or the great software you made for the iPhone, but our “DemoAbsorbingCapacity” had reached its limits.

Being a public speaker myself, I noticed, captured the event and expirience and learned a lot as well here!

links for 2008-03-06

// March 6th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Links

internet explorer 8 showed in public today at mix ’08

// March 5th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // news, technology

Today, at MIX08, Dean Hachamovitch – internet explorer general manager for Microosft, gave the developers, designers and technology influencers a preview of IE8. He gave us some of the features and development-criteria for this new version:

Just two of them are:

  • the interoperability and the issues that exist when rendering the same page in different browsers. OK, Microosft has never admitted to have broken the web, but we all seem to have expirienced some issues in that area. Even after not breaking it – they fixed it :-)
  • when a page in a post/get event is prepared and the network is lost, the IE will adapt the submit-button becomes a save button, so the work done is not lost;
  • I’ll post more when it becomes available here…

The developer beta can be found on www.microsoft.com/ie/ie8 as soon as this keynote will be over.

making money with networking

// March 5th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // technology

While it is common believe that networking infrastructure is a market where margins are declining, I found a company here in Las Vegas that found a way of making money. We are in a conference room, where one WLAN is available. The prices?

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Even at current dollar rates, a little bit exagerated. So, you’ll understand why I’ll post this blog later …

links for 2008-03-05

// March 5th, 2008 // No Comments » // Links

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