Daily Archives: October 26th, 2005

ZDNet looks into Office suite performance

ZDNet’s George Ou is looking into the performance of Microsoft Office 2003 and OpenOffice.org 2.0. Interesting results.

IdeaBlade holds .NET tour

Interesting, if you’re a company and trying to get people to try your product, why not go on a road tour? That’s what IdeaBlade is doing. They are holding a nine-city tour for .NET developers. Silicon Valley, next week, then Dallas, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Toronto, Atlanta, Chicago.

Tim O’Reilly wonders if Microsoft is colluding against Google

Tim O’Reilly is sitting next to me. For the past hour he was typing furiously. So, I just visited his blog to read what he was writing.
He wrote, in a post titled OCA vs. Google Print Library Project?: “This PR positioning makes me think that the OCA, a worthwhile effort (to which O’Reilly has contributed [...]

Renee wants to go to Europe (needs a cell phone)

Renee Blodgett (she’s Silicon Valley’s PR maven) is talking with me. She wants to go to Paris, France, but needs to know that she will be able to use a cell phone in Paris. I told her “hmmm, I have no idea about that, so let me blog it.” I remembered that my readers are smarter than [...]

Hate typing your emails? Waxmail

Jeremy Hague of Skylook (which lets you record Skype calls inside Outlook) has been sending me WaxMail’s. What’s that? It lets you send voice from right inside Outlook. So, if you are tired of typing you can send a voice message. It’s an MP3 generator, basically. Hmmm, I wonder if I could use this to [...]

Budget Rental Car runs blog contest

Companies continue to try to figure out how to participate in the blog world. Here Budget Rental Car holds a contest and announces its first winner.