The Plague Of False Positives
Techdirt:The Plague Of False Positives. That and Lint.
Ray Ozzie asks whether (and why not) anyone has build a Feed extension and process to combine iCal information (calendar events) or vCard (personal contact) information.
Rather than manually re-key date or contact information publish it as rss feed, with updates as necessary.
Think about following your favorite sport team, Band, TV show schedule; publish conference schedules; sharing work calendars, school calendars as a feed.
Interesting application of iCAL and RSS.
Update (Sept 22) : Thinking more about this :
from The Register : Four in ten IT contractors out of work
from Yahoo! News - Ancient River Found Flowing Beneath Toronto via Boing Boing!
There's an ice-age river flowing deep under Canada's largest city. There has been for at least a million years but it wasn't until last month that anyone saw any real evidence of it.Listamatic inspired List-o-matic to use CSS and semantically correct XHTML lists to generate navigation menus.
With great power comes great responsibility (Which explains why I'm in charge of nothing!)
That's the theory, anyway.
(Difference Between Theory And Practice) attributed to Yogi Berra
From Saving the Browser via Slashdork : Apparently stunned by the implications of Eolas vs Microsoft, Ray Ozzie of Lotus Notes and Groove fame offers up Notes R3 as prior art for the notorious Eolas patent. To bolster his argument, Ozzie used the Notes R3 feature set to recreate a scenario close to what was described in the patent. After the hard part of putting together a Notes R3 computing environment that included MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and a circa-1993 copy of Excel 5.0 obtained from eBay, it only took Ozzie about 15 minutes to knock out a demo without any programming using the out-of-the-box UI of Notes and Excel."
Oh the ironies of Lotus Notes (and R3 at that) saving the browser, at the hands of which it has suffered so much. I look forward to the browser of 2014 being able to do (badly) what Lotus/Domino R6 can do today!
Techdirt:A Business Model Involving Free File Sharing The Key is : Is file-sharing an act of promotion or distribution?
The RIAA and some musicians see it as distribution of product, and therefore see it as lost revenue. Other musicians see it as promotional material, which will result in concert ticket sales, T-shirt sales, lunchbox sales, and sponsorship money. And yes, it will also sell CD's.
The key is to turn people into fans. No one buys CDs or goes to concerts of musicians they have never heard of. But turn them into a fan and you will have several years of revenue from that person. Give them the samples for free so that they can learn about you. Let them share those samples with other people. Word will spread.
Techdirt:Advertising Execs Slowly Reaching Obvious Conclusion: Ads Are Content Too. Right conclusion, Wrong RESPONSE!
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