i couldn’t get these to work. alpha indeed! interesting that they are using FOAF in the social networks demo.
Tag: microsoft
Adobe Apollo
Springtime means conference time, which means it’s silly season on the web again. Adobe introduced Apollo, their latest attempt to recreate the web in their own image. Apollo is based on Adobe’s own markup language, Adobe’s own runtime, Adobe’s own graphics and animation framework, Adobe’s own video and audio codecs, and Adobe’s own developer tools. You can do many things with it, but “you may not sublicense or distribute the Software. … You may not modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based upon the Software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software. … You may not install or use the Software on any non-PC device or with any embedded or device version of any operating system.” It requires at least Windows XP SP 2 or Mac OS X 10.4.
nice smackdown on all the adobe / ms nonsense this week. and i am actually working on a side project with mark now 🙂
History of IE JS GC
What happens when you have a web page, ASP page or WSH script with both VBScript and JScript? JScript and VBScript know nothing about each others garbage collection semantics. A VBScript program which gets a reference to a JScript object just sees another COM object. The same for a VBScript object passed to JScript. A circular reference between VBScript and JScript objects would not be broken and the memory would leak (until the engines were shut down). A noncircular reference will be freed when the object in question goes out of scope in both language (and the JS GC runs.)
the history of the IE6 Javascript GC, from the horse’s mouth
Slow JScript in IE 6
IE6 javascript GC is completely retarded. Microsoft has a patch, but does not distribute it via windows update. it is hard not to construe this as wanting to prevent web apps from encroaching on the windows / office franchise.
Silverlight
Silverlight might be a nice alternative to flash. no linux. what up, ms?
Microsoft loses religion
When Microsoft lost the backwards-compatibility religion that had served them so well in the past, they threatened 3 of their most important businesses (Office, Windows, and Basic), businesses which are highly dependent on upgrade revenues.
Microsoft CloudDB
cute. after yahoo, ms is cloning bigtable too
Operation Channel 9
When Channel 9 launched, executives in PR, marketing, and legal reacted with alarm.
alarm over being exposed as dead wood
SensorMap
Microsoft’s SensorMap layers live information into Web-based maps, but which will apparently be able to take in data from all kinds of sensors, including ones that generate what is effectively lifelogging data. What if I could create an avatar of myself that recreates in a virtual world what I’m doing in the physical world, so that my family could access it when I’m away on a business trip and keep up with what I’m doing?
i like! anything to augment reality bit by bit.
Random People Creating Value
I don’t think anyone has proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing has created value.”
—Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, on Google
at twice the productivity of the competition
Gregor J. Rothfuss 