Good morning! ASP.NET is getting some real adoption in the Web space, Tim O’Reilly notes, (and at Mix you’ll see a lot more). I’m hearing from companies all over the place that are betting their futures on ASP.NET. More on Memeorandum.
One of Microsoft’s smartest on Channel 9
March 3, 2006 By
Don’t take my word about it, but when I talk with developers inside Microsoft (and outside, truth be told) about who they look up to the most, Jim Gray’s name invariably comes up. Here’s a video of him on the Behind the Code show. I was in the audience, it was a real honor. That guy has more brain cells than the rest of us, I’m pretty convinced (and he’s a darn nice guy too).
PBS, what kind of Mac you running?
March 2, 2006 By
Hey, PBS’s Mark Glaser says that he can’t watch WMV files. What kind of Mac are you running Mark? Also, WMV files have NOTHING to do with the kind of browser you have. It has to do with the media player you have.
By the way, my son is a Mac user. Maybe NPR should hire him. He knows how to play WMV files on his Mac. I’ll have him try to play these and get back to us. Are these files DRM’d?
I just got an email from a reader that said these files work just fine on his Mac.
Another guy just reported that he can’t view the AP Web page from his Mac and that the Web page itself (not the video formats) can’t be opened. Oh, that’s not nice!
Scoble the tiresome sycophant strikes again
February 28, 2006 By
I get the Channel 9 guy into the picture with Matt Cutts of Google. I bet that’ll get him razzed in the office next week. Matt wrote up the panel discussion we were on together on his blog. Tim Stay has even more complete notes.
I was on KUOW radio tonight (that is the local public radio station and the show I was on is their business and technology show — The Works with John Moe). Fun show. You can listen (Real Networks required). I talked about my book and about the importance of NOT being a tireless sycophant.
So, who called me a sycophant? That’s Declan Kennedy. He gave me, and Microsoft major s**t for not supporting Web standards and generally, well, being evil. Says “Try turning up to actually confront a blogger about the problems inherent in their company’s approach to the computing industry, and you’ll more than likely just get shouted down.”
Hmm, not my experience at all. What did I do? I emailed the team that did the Mix contest and said “fix the code.”
But what do I know? I’m just a tiresome sycophant.
More work to do.
Hell to get colder: Slashdot has headline that says “Why Vista won’t suck”
February 28, 2006 By
Does this mean the world as we know it is about to end? I just was over on Slashdot (I’m listening to Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo give his presentation here at Search Engine Strategies and he lost my attention*). Anyway, I almost fell out of my chair when I saw this headline: Why Vista Won’t Suck.
Is Slashdot’s editors feeling OK? How did this headline slip through the system? I’m not sure.
But, the article it points to on Extreme Tech is a pretty in-depth look at Windows Vista.
*Sorry for the lame inside joke. Jeremy’s talk was on attention. I couldn’t pay attention. Heheh.
Check this out: Virtual Earth Streetlevel
February 28, 2006 By
Remember how A9 took a car with a few cameras on it down streets of major cities and let you see what the storefront looked like at a particular address? Well, we thought that was cool so wanted to take it to the next level.
Virtual Earth Streetlevel.
That link will take you to a Channel 9 video of Streetlevel that shows off what we did (and you’ll meet the team behind it). They took a van with 10 cameras to Seattle and San Francisco (more cities coming soon) and built quite a remarkable AJAX app. Lots of fun. Drive your own car down the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and you can search for the closest Starbucks, too! It’s like playing a video game. Driving through tunnels is a lot of fun!
How many images? Seattle alone is 10 million images. What a database!
You can check it out for yourself at http://preview.local.live.com/. More info is on the MSN Search blog.
What do you think?
