two years ago: ftrain on google and semweb

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The Banality of Google (Ftrain.com)

The Banality of Google (Ftrain.com) 09/02/2004 10:47 PM
The Banality of Google (Ftrain.com) .. Paul Ford

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Ftrain: August 2009: How Google beat
Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web

Ftrain: August 2009: How Google beat
Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web 08/04/2004 02:54 PM
Ftrain: August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web .. Google Marketplace Manager

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Ftrain.com: August 2009: How Google beat
Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web

Ftrain.com: August 2009: How Google beat
Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web 07/28/2004 04:02 AM
August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com) .. read this rather good factional account .. take over the world by 2009 .. ipotesi molto stimolanti .. Paul Ford’s vision

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Ftrain

Ftrain 12/29/2003 11:43 PM
For quite a while I've known I'm not a blogger in any of the broad types demarking the form. Happy to be ignored, I'd like to get a few things down in public. Ideas released into the stream have a chance to improve. Private scratchings quail or fester. The weak narrative here is a record. Pulpy printed volumes imagined by my mentors might never be bound, bought, read and catalogued. This may be all there is. If so, it's a shameful haphazard. I'm not in it for audience, with...

The Ftrain on TimesSelect

The Ftrain on TimesSelect 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
While there's still a debate going on around the TimesSelect offering, I think I've found proof they did the right thing: Paul Ford has endorsed it. Hooray for business models!...

""Has there ever been a brand name like
Google? Non-existent six years ago, it’s
now a part of the global language, as
in, “I Googled this,” or “I Googled
that,” or “I Googled you.” To Google, a
verb, is to get an instant answer by
using the company's..."

""Has there ever been a brand name like
Google? Non-existent six years ago, it’s
now a part of the global language, as
in, “I Googled this,” or “I Googled
that,” or “I Googled you.” To Google, a
verb, is to get an instant answer by
using the company's..." 01/04/2005 11:28 AM

Webmasters #1 Google New Years Wish

Webmasters #1 Google New Years Wish 12/30/2002 10:45 AM
"...better webmaster relations and communication."

3 years ago: Google 2.0, suggesting a
browser

3 years ago: Google 2.0, suggesting a
browser 08/27/2004 02:15 PM
john at webword has been putting good thought into this for a long time

Steve Ballmer: 'One-hit wonder' Google
Could Disappear in Five Years

Steve Ballmer: 'One-hit wonder' Google
Could Disappear in Five Years 06/05/2005 11:27 PM
"Ballmer trumpeted the ripe opportunities around Microsoft's sprawling business and questioned the ability of Google to maintain its edge."

Software That Lasts For Years And Years

Software That Lasts For Years And Years 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
We were just talking about the rise of quick and dirty programs as a way for individuals (not necessarily programmers) to solve specific needs. However, as was mentioned at the time, that would be a different "tier" of software programming, and there would still be a need for programmers to do higher level "big" projects. In the past, we've also discussed the problem of data extinction, where old computer systems and formats die out, leaving content and applications virtually useless on ancient media. This is a big problem for many applications, and Dan Bricklin is now suggesting that people need to start designing "Societal Infrastructure Software" that can last for centuries, not just a few years. The idea is that this type of software shouldn't have to worry about new computers or new formats or new anything... but will be able to just keep on working. In order to build this, though, Bricklin believes it will require embracing open source programming, though not necessarily the way people view open source programming today. It's a fascinating concept, but getting people to think long-term is so difficult these days, that you wonder if such ideas will actually catch on.

Google IPO, Google Foundation (Google
Webl0g)

Google IPO, Google Foundation (Google
Webl0g) 04/30/2004 04:57 AM
Letter from the Google founders .. the Google blog has more .. it begins

google.blogspace.com/archives/001216
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10 years

10 years 06/05/2005 11:06 PM
On his site's tenth anniversary, Zeldman thanks you for the memories.

Two Years

Two Years 06/17/2005 06:08 PM
... ago today, the Pie wiki was created.  During that period, we had interminable naming discussions, a lengthy process of selecting a standards body, endless discussion on dates, and a last call. One week from today, format-09 is scheduled to be reviewed by the IESG.

10 Years Ago

10 Years Ago 12/30/2004 04:35 AM

OK - so I didn't mark this exactly with an October 12th anninversary - but it was 10 years ago that Dave Winer first 'blogged' me - rapping out my Marc's 10 Things.

In honor of this auspicious anniversary - I'd like to comment on or update many of these claims on things that the media should be covering on Multimedia and Interactive TV but isn't.

I wrote (in 1994):

Interactive Music Videos

1. Interactive Liner notes are great. Repackaged old music is fine, but MediaBand has started a new category - called Interactive Music Videos - which are original pieces that combine songs, music videos and videogames. It's a new artform that breaks down the barrier between artist, musician and programmer.

I was in the midst of pushing our 'MediaBand' interactive music video ensemble in 1994 - which put out a CD ROM, performed live, had a screenplay and had it'sd own broadband network to interact with folks - in real-time.

So I was seriously into brow beating all my colleagues who simply licensed Bob Dylan or Prince and cranked out shitty ass CD ROMs. To me - that really missed the essence of what was possible combining, music, video and interactivity.

To this day, this new artform is just kind of bubbling beneath the surface - not really making it out. Dance Dance Revolution is the sign of times - now.

BTW a young artist named Moby took some of our MediaBand Director files and added his own artwork and music to it. :-)

Kid's Content

2. Kids today see the twitchy-ness of Nintendo and they see the production values of MTV. Multimedia today is neither. We need to combine the interactivity of Nintendo with the production values of MTV.

This area certainly has matured and grown. We were in the videogame business back in '81-'83, but we never dreamed that gaming would be so 'off the hook' - as it is today.

But Mimi (my daughter) has a great time playing with the Barbie fashion Designer software - and Dora the Explorer rocks. So I'd say this category has fulfilled it's destiny. At least so far.

CD ROMs

3. We didn't call it a floppy disk industry, so how come it's a CD ROM industry? In fact CD ROM [mentality] is holding back the creativity and growth of the entire interactive digital media industry.

Just take out CD ROM and insert 'web'. Same problem exists today. This is why we have CMSs.

I call the solution to this challenge "scalable content". In fact we were using this term way back in '94. Marqui outputs scalable content - BTW.

So CMSs have matured and we don't have to convince folks to de-couple their content from their form anymore. Thank goodness.

Scalable Content

4. Scalable content is an important concept when developing interactive media today. You don't want to design yourself into a corner, letting the technology define the content. Ideally you'd let the content define the technology. Scalability means downsizing through compression, it means user interfaces that work with both single and multiple users, it means getting ready for Interactive TV.

OK - so I just correlated how CD ROMs 'holding back' creativity were similar to what happened with 'the web'. And I said that we called that Scalable Content.

Now let's take my definition of Scalable Content (back then in '94) and extend that to mean 'dynamic user interfaces' - that adjust themselves to who you are, what level of technology you feel comfortable with and what content you've created yourself.

It's amazing to me to read what I said in 1994, and see how these words influenced my thoughts and ideas over the past 10 years and how some of these ideas remain unchanged, while others have morphed and adapted themselves to world today.

The word 'scalability' is just so malleable that you can twist and turn it to mean anything you want it to mean. But is IT clear - that us humans need to be in charge much more of our user experiences - and THAT's a key part of 'activity based computing'.

Audio

5. The classic line is "Audio is the orphan child of multimedia" - why do people still say this? What is behind the hodge-podge of audio - especially on the PC? How come it's taken so long for manufacturers to include audio on their motherboards? In 1984 it was $3 in parts!

MIDI II?

6. What about MIDI? How many people know what that is? Why isn't there an advanced MIDI format in place? The original MIDI frequency standard (32k) is based a 1Mhz crystal readily available in 1982.But what's the problem today? Why hasn't MIDI evolved and grown?

RAM

7. RAM apparently is not following along the path of Moore's Law. The price is still where it was 5 years ago and systems are suffering. Today MPC II is still speced at only 4M - MediaBand needs 8M. Standard business systems should have at least 16M TODAY!

Tee Hee Hee.

You see I'm a musician by training and we put out the first music product for computers that had a piano timeline notational system, qurter note and eigth notes and a piano and real-time interaction. That was 1984.

So 10 years after that - in 1994 - I was bitching about.... well it's now 10 years later and we still don;t have clean audio solved. But we're getting pretty close. Podcastign is evidence of that.

Time stamp - Dec. 2004 - $60 for a 128M MP3 player. Retail price.

MIDI II got usurped by all sorts of things - including OSC - I keynoted at their conference this summer.

Amd I just love to see Shawn Fanning appear in "The Italian Job" and just adore the notion that Mark Cuban sold broadcast.com for $5.6B.

All this is evidence that they'll be plenty more Googles, Netscapes and Eminems.

Set top tests waste of time?

8. The whole industry hopped when John Malone announced he was going to deploy one million set top boxes with MPEG chips in them. Once it became clear that he was practicing FUD, everyone backed off of their predictions, delayed their test trials and are now waiting for the next thing to react to. The tests going on (or planned to start soon) are not based upon the same technology or even marketing premises. What good will these tests do? Will any of these tests actually grow into a real service network.

Interactive Commercials

9. What exactly is an Interactive TV commercial. Lots of people talk about it, but no one does them.

This one is dedicated to Om Mailk. I hope to see him tomorrow night at the Geek Dinner.

I spent allot of the 90's waiting for and explaining why set top boxes suck. They still do. Oh well.

Set top boxes have always been a kind of thorn in my side. In fact I hope to get a Comcast PVR setup in time for the Alias 2 hour season premiere on Jan. 5th. Wanna guess how long it'll take to get?

And the Interactive Ads future - is in John Battelle's able hands. Search meets ads in the valley of the targeted consumer. It's finally here.

Support?

10. Where's the support? As the industry moves towards 900 # support and low priced consumer software, what happens to support? Dealers obviously can't supply it. Is this a new growth market?

Well we're still looking for good Support.

I don't think that will ever change.

OK - so that's it - my 10 year update. I hope you enjoyed it.

Also - how symbolic that Dave's post show's my old Applelink address which went back to 1985. We were the 10th Mac developer. That's why I was D0010.

"three to four years old."

"three to four years old." 08/03/2004 02:42 PM

Five Years, That's All We've Got

Five Years, That's All We've Got 12/13/2003 11:02 PM
Much has changed at evolt.org over its five years. Much has not. We are the change we want to see in the world.

Six years!

Six years! 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
Time is flying by so quickly these days, so I didn't notice on March 14th that this weblog is now six years old. Except for the basics (eating, sleeping, remaining alive), I've never stuck with anything for six years straight, so it's hard for me to believe I'm still here doing this. Six years!...

Five years, one day

Five years, one day 01/22/2004 02:19 PM

Yesterday I realized it has been five years since Evan and I founded Pyra, the company that led to Blogger. We used to have a company weblog called pyrAlert! (actually the software we wrote to publish pyrAlert! was what lead to the creation of Blogger). This morning Paulo wrote to point out that pyrAlert! is still online and you can go back into the archives and read what was going on at Pyra in 1999. You may also notice that there are no permalinks on any of the posts, because these posts were made BP, or before permalink! It's funny to see the kind of stuff we used to write about.

Three Years Since

Three Years Since 09/12/2004 04:38 PM
I left work on September 10th at 9:00 PM. An hour before, my coworker was getting nervous. She was leaving on a trip to Italy on the 12th and wanted to meet me at 8:30 AM on the 11th to go over what projects of hers I needed to steer in her absence. I rolled my eyes and complained that no one schedules meetings at 8:30 in the morning, and convinced her to postpone the meeting to 10:00 AM.

Seven years

Seven years 03/19/2005 02:37 AM

I started kottke.org seven years ago this week. I forget the anniversary until after the fact every year even though I know it's sometime in March (for whatever reason almost everything important in my life has happened in March, at least for the last few years). Seven years is way longer than I would have guessed keeping the site going on a near-daily basis...it's the longest I've ever done anything, even longer than all but a handful of friendships. So happy birthday, old friend, it's been fun. (0sil8 started in March as well...nine years ago.)

Five years

Five years 01/22/2004 02:36 AM
Meg just wrote and pointed out that Pyra was incorporated five years ago today.

Three Years On

Three Years On 09/11/2004 09:19 AM
Three Years On A sobering analysis by Juan Cole of the strategic motivation behind 9/11.

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were
Four Years Ago?

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were
Four Years Ago? 09/11/2004 12:25 PM
Stop being economic girly-men .. statistics never lie

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Five years!

Five years! 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
The first post to this weblog was made on March 14, 1998, making it five years old last week. I'm trying to recall where all

Four more years

Four more years 12/19/2004 03:55 PM
Bush is reelected President of the United States of America. Four more years of abuse, torture, murder, ignorance and selfishness will follow.

4AD - The First 20 Years (brief)

4AD - The First 20 Years (brief) 04/14/2004 06:22 AM
An illustrated history of 4AD Records

fedge.net/~desiderata/4ad20.html
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74 Years Old

74 Years Old 08/05/2004 11:29 PM
"The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the Court is denied." Hours later, James Hubbard is injected with lethal chemicals and dies in Atmore, Alabama. Hubbard , convicted of a 1977 murder, was 74 years old, demented, and retarded. File this one under "it's not cruel and unusual if you don't know what's happening to you."

Were those the golden years?

Were those the golden years? 06/05/2005 11:34 PM
I just finished reading Kottke's new piece, A whole new internet?, and it reminded me of a moment in 2002, sitting in a basement at a great conference organized by Kevin Werbach in the depth of the tech recession. While around us were depression, unemployment and nay-saying about the internet, in that room was amazing creativity and energy -- people like Mike Masnick, Ben and Mena Trott, Dan Gillmor, Marc Canter, Dave Sifry and many others all excited about the ideas they had and the things they were working on, and all eager to share them. Now, except for the irrepressible Mr. Cantor, the projects have become businesses, and the proprietors much quieter. People are still working on cool stuff, but they are talking and sharing less, except for marketing mode. I know my writing has suffered, both because of constraints on what I feel comfortable writing about here, and just because of the lack of time to write. Business is booming, but it is less fun. Is Kottke right, and will we look back at 2002-2004 as the golden years of the internet, pre-Web 2.0?...

10 years on and still a long way to go

10 years on and still a long way to go 12/08/2003 02:22 PM
newmediazero Dec 8 2003 1:36PM ET

MSN gets a toolbar, years after others

MSN gets a toolbar, years after others 01/26/2004 03:05 PM
the weirdest part is that MSN is supposed to be focused on better software, yet neglected this audience

HIV: 20 Years of Research

HIV: 20 Years of Research 04/12/2004 12:52 AM

EDS set to cut 20,000 jobs over two
years

EDS set to cut 20,000 jobs over two
years 09/13/2004 06:49 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 13 2004 11:06AM GMT

The Simpsons: 2 more years!

The Simpsons: 2 more years! 01/17/2003 09:36 PM
This is excellent news: Homer, Bart and the rest of The Simpsons gang will be sticking around the tube for a while as Fox announced Friday it has reupped the classic cartoon series for two more years. Dismissing talk that...

4.5 years ago: what is a liberal?

4.5 years ago: what is a liberal? 01/08/2004 08:12 PM
i sure used to bold a lot of words back then. but the speech is worth reading.

The top 20 Macs over 20 years

The top 20 Macs over 20 years 01/09/2004 10:08 PM
In light of the twentieth anniversary of the Macintosh this year (1984-2004), Wired has posted an article by Owen Linzmayer in which the twenty most memorable Macintosh computers are selected...

Groove, four years later

Groove, four years later 05/04/2004 12:25 PM
I recently met with Groove's Jack Ozzie and Michael Helfrich. Jack is a co-founder and VP, development; Michael is VP, applied technology. The subject, of course, was the forthcoming V3 of Groove, a product I first saw in beta four years ago this spring. We had a wide-ranging discussion; here are some of the key takeaway points. ...

Peeping Tom Gets at Least 10 Years (AP)

Peeping Tom Gets at Least 10 Years (AP) 06/24/2004 06:23 PM
AP - A Peeping Tom has been sentenced to a minimum of 10 years imprisonment after he spied on the house of a police officer who had set a trap for him.

Man gets nine years for spamming

Man gets nine years for spamming 04/08/2005 07:49 PM
A US man gets nine years in jail for sending millions of junk emails selling pornography and sham products.

Four Years at a Time

Four Years at a Time 08/08/2004 02:16 PM
β€œThe President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.” - James D. St. Clair, arguing before the Supreme Court in 1974.

The court didn't agree, returning an 8-0 decision and as a result, thirty years ago today Richard Nixon announced his resignation. The next day at 11:35A M it became official and Gerald Ford, the first unelected Vice-President in history was sworn in under the provisions of the 25 th Amendment to the Constitution as the 38th President of the United States.

But what if Nixon had chosen to respond differently? What if he had vowed not to resign? Arti cle II of the Constitution makes the President the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. Could the Supreme Court really have forced Nixon to comply with their order? What if the President had viewed the Court's order as an attempted coup d'etat?
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