Innovating from the Ground Up, and the Idea-Implementation Disconnect

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Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation 03/19/2005 03:09 AM
Here’s an idea: what if when I wrote weblog entries about General Motors, I included a special tag, a keyword tag, that let everyone who wanted to read blog entries about General Motors read my weblog article, without otherwise having to subscribe to my blog? Makes sense. Now, should it be “gm” or “GM” or “generalmotors” or “general motors” or “General Motors” or “GM Corporation” or … ? Therein lies the fundamental problem with Technorati…

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Computer-in-a-computer idea gains ground

Computer-in-a-computer idea gains ground 11/10/2003 11:16 PM
CNET Asia Nov 10 2003 10:35PM ET

How The Content Industry Is Trying To
Prevent TiVo From Innovating

How The Content Industry Is Trying To
Prevent TiVo From Innovating 07/22/2004 12:57 PM
It's an innovation that TiVo should have done years ago, and which others have already hacked their TiVo to do, or setup other systems which allowed it, but now that TiVo wants to let users transfer what they record to other devices, the content industry is freaking out. Among those complaining is the NFL, who is worried that someone will use this system to send a copy of a game to an area where TV coverage is "blacked out." As TiVo points out, it would take 144 hours to transfer a game at this point. That's a bit misleading, of course, as bandwidth is getting faster, but the system TiVo is designing seems clearly set up to limit unauthorized copying. If someone actually goes through the trouble of getting a football game in a "blacked out" zone, does it really matter that much? For the most part, what TiVo is doing would allow more people to view the commercials that help the TV industry make money. Of course, the end result, like everything the entertainment industry tries to block, is that people will continue to hack their way to do this anyway, and the entertainment industry will have even less control. Once again, with their short-term thinking they're shooting their own businesses in the foot.

"Lifetime terrorist detentions are a bad
idea -- but if another senator has said
that, say, Chuck Hagel, I'd have said
it's a very GOOD idea."

"Lifetime terrorist detentions are a bad
idea -- but if another senator has said
that, say, Chuck Hagel, I'd have said
it's a very GOOD idea." 01/03/2005 10:35 AM

Can You Really Disconnect?

Can You Really Disconnect? 09/07/2004 02:12 PM
There have been plenty of stories about the always on nature of the worklife many people lead now that technology makes them reachable anywhere, anytime. Now eWeek is running a similar story that tries to look more at the importance of disconnecting, and suggests that, while this always on culture is enabled by technology, it's more a result of the way we view our workplace. While the whole idea of building up a work team is so that it can function without you present, people often have difficulty letting go -- either because they don't trust others, or they worry that if everything runs smoothly while they're away, they'll be viewed as expendable. Obviously, there are some situations where staying in touch is necessary. However, for plenty of workers, learning to let go (with maybe a brief connection to clean out the spam) would probably be helpful.

Cellular disconnect

Cellular disconnect 01/25/2004 04:04 AM
Boston Globe Jan 25 2004 7:34AM GMT

Consumer Confidence Disconnect

Consumer Confidence Disconnect 06/30/2004 02:37 PM
Apparently, we're confident. How come all the big retailers are warning?

The conspiracy to disconnect VoIP

The conspiracy to disconnect VoIP 06/17/2004 01:19 PM
ZDNet Jun 17 2004 5:32PM GMT

Trying To Unravel Study About
IT/Employee Security Disconnect

Trying To Unravel Study About
IT/Employee Security Disconnect 04/28/2004 02:31 PM
Websense, a company that is trying to sell filters to IT staff, has put out a new study talking about how there's a disconnect between IT staff and employees when it comes to threats on their machines. Unfortunately, it also appears that there's a disconnect between the study, the press release about it and some reporters. Two different articles on the study present some very different numbers - and some of the conclusions in the press release seem equally questionable. Silicon Valley Business Journal says that employees claim they spend two hours a week surfing personal sites, while Wired News gives the number as 3.3 hours. Both, however, agree that IT staff believes it's more like six hours. The disconnect between IT and employees isn't surprising. Of course employees are going to play down how much time they spend surfing non-work sites, because they don't want to get in trouble. At the same time IT often has the incentive to boost those numbers to suggest they need more resources to handle the "problem". The press release shows that the number is 2 hours - but even that's a little confusing. They say that 51% of employees admit to surfing 1 to 5 hours a week, for an average of 2 hours. It's not clear if it's just those 51% who average 2 hours, or if that includes the 49% who apparently don't do personal surfing at work. The next bit of confusion is over spyware. Wired points out that 6% of employees admit to downloading spyware, but that 30% of computers are found with spyware, while the press release gives the number as 29% (just a little rounding, I guess). This isn't all that surprising, since spyware is known to install itself without people knowing. The Business Journal, however, focuses on the fact that the press release claims 92% of companies ended up with spyware - highlighting the discrepancy between the 6% and the 92%. That's misleading, since even if 1% of all employees at every company ended up with spyware, 100% of companies would have spyware. The Business Journal piece also follows the press release in saying that the study asked people if they "visited sites" that install spyware, whereas Wired News assumes the question was whether or not they knowingly "downloaded" spyware - two very different things. Finally, Wired says that 93% of IT staff claim they're adequately protected against viruses - but that two-thirds admit their company has been hit by viruses. The Business Journal phrases things a bit differently. First, they claim the number is 95% instead of 93% (the press release says "nearly 95%" so this is understandable) and instead of saying protected against viruses, they say "protected from threats such as spyware, peer-to-peer file sharing, instant messaging and maladies such as the MyDoom virus -- all potential conduits for Web-based viruses." That paints a very different picture. First off, it's a bit problematic to simply lump together things like spyware and instant messaging as global "threats," but even worse that list doesn't include email - the main source of viruses getting onto computers. The press release, however, indicates that the study simply asked if their anti-virus software was effective. Anyway, it is very likely that there's a disconnect between IT staff and employees concerning protecting computers in the work place, and better tools would probably help. However, relying on this study, or any of the articles about it, doesn't seem like a particularly useful exercise.

Porting problems disconnect carrier
swaps

Porting problems disconnect carrier
swaps 01/22/2004 12:56 PM
ZDNet Jan 22 2004 5:29PM GMT

Sysinternals PsTools Fails to Disconnect
Shares

Sysinternals PsTools Fails to Disconnect
Shares 07/22/2004 08:12 PM

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“Alan Ridgeway has reported a security issue in PsTools, potentially allowing malicious users to gain administrative privileges on remote systems….Solution: Only system administrators and trusted users should be granted access to systems used for system administration purposes. Reportedly, the latest version properly disconnects when the utility is closed.”…

Commercial PHP Implementation

Commercial PHP Implementation 07/02/2004 02:51 PM

PINAMI Is Not An Mpi Implementation

PINAMI Is Not An Mpi Implementation 11/05/2003 06:23 AM
code in CVS

XQuery Implementation

XQuery Implementation 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Though not yet a W3C Recommendation, XQuery has been around for a long time now. This article looks at the trends in its deployment, and predicts the big opportunity for XQuery in web services integration.

StarCCM - A CCM implementation in C++

StarCCM - A CCM implementation in C++ 01/10/2004 02:42 AM
StarCCM 1.0 is released

Complexity of Implementation

Complexity of Implementation 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
In the comments, michel v wrote: Compare that to Pingback, that can settle with an X-Pingback server header (imagine, you...

A Google to RSS Implementation

A Google to RSS Implementation 09/01/2004 09:40 AM
If you wanted to get Google search results as an RSS feed but didn't want to a) install software on your server or b) get an account at Google Alert...

Longhorn implementation videos

Longhorn implementation videos 04/10/2004 08:34 PM

Lcars Implementation for Windows

Lcars Implementation for Windows 12/05/2003 12:30 PM
Alivery!

Netflow implementation for netgraph

Netflow implementation for netgraph 01/07/2004 06:06 PM
ng_netflow-0.1 released

SAP launches SOA implementation service

SAP launches SOA implementation service 03/30/2005 06:03 PM
As the SOA (service-oriented architecture) platform wars continue between the ERP vendors, SAP unveiled its strategy Tuesday for how it intends to increase the NetWeaver installed base among the major enterprise platform buyers.

Java Implementation of Speex 0.9.2

Java Implementation of Speex 0.9.2 01/28/2004 06:54 AM
A Java port of the Speex speech codec.

SAP Launches SOA Implementation Program

SAP Launches SOA Implementation Program 03/31/2005 07:07 PM
The ESA Adoption Program provides a combination of software and services to help companies implement a service-oriented architecture.

Technical Implementation Specialist

Technical Implementation Specialist 04/09/2004 07:50 PM
CodeRyte - United States, Maryland, Bethesda (2004-04-09)

Java Implementation of Speex 0.9.4

Java Implementation of Speex 0.9.4 06/25/2004 07:28 AM
A Java port of the Speex speech codec.

The PEAR::SOAP Implementation

The PEAR::SOAP Implementation 12/24/2002 07:14 AM
This article will step you through one of the leading SOAP implementations – PEAR::SOAP, its installation, and then detail an example ‘Hello World’ SOAP application using PEAR::SOAP. PEAR::SOAP is an implementation that is based on SOAPx4 and offers a basic, yet very useful way of developing SOAP clients and servers with PHP.

XModem Java Implementation 0.1

XModem Java Implementation 0.1 06/16/2004 12:10 AM
A partial implementation of the XModem protocol.

J1699 Implementation Project

J1699 Implementation Project 11/04/2003 06:01 PM
Version 10.2.4

OSS .NET implementation Mono 1.0
released

OSS .NET implementation Mono 1.0
released 07/01/2004 12:31 AM
Version 1.0 of Mono, the open source implementation of .NET, has been released. Mono allows developers to build cross-platform .NET applications on Linux or other UNIX-like systems.

SAP implementation contributed to HP
shortfall

SAP implementation contributed to HP
shortfall 08/12/2004 04:34 PM
Problems during an SAP AG supply chain rollout hit computer systems vendor Hewlett-Packard Co. hard in its bottom line during the third quarter, and the fallout from the troubled implementation apparently led to the firing of three HP executives.

SMS 2003 Implementation Stories

SMS 2003 Implementation Stories 08/21/2004 01:37 AM

Sun's XACML Implementation

Sun's XACML Implementation 03/13/2003 02:13 PM
New Developer Stuff

SMS 2003 SP1 Implementation Stories

SMS 2003 SP1 Implementation Stories 09/13/2004 06:03 PM

FIX-Protocol Open Source implementation

FIX-Protocol Open Source implementation 12/07/2003 10:32 AM
FreeFIX client is on its way

Survey: Implementation of Health IT Lags

Survey: Implementation of Health IT Lags 08/03/2004 12:49 PM
Even among health IT professionals, knowledge about an on-going national initiative and usage of electronic medical records at healthcare organizations are still lacking.

Project implementation: Eight steps to
success

Project implementation: Eight steps to
success 02/26/2003 01:44 AM
CNET Feb 26 2003 1:24AM ET

W3C Workshop on XForms Implementation
Announced

W3C Workshop on XForms Implementation
Announced 01/13/2003 06:06 PM
13 January 2003: Registration is open through 21 February for the W3C Workshop on XForms Implementation to be held in Waltham, MA, USA on 27-28 February 2003. Participants must be in the XForms Working Group or have an XForms 1.0 implementation. Attendees will exchange experiences, hints and techniques, compare functionality, and discuss XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation issues. Visit the XForms home page. (News archive)

New open source BEEP implementation

New open source BEEP implementation 05/28/2002 08:57 AM

Implementation of HTML Extensions
Proposal

Implementation of HTML Extensions
Proposal 07/09/2004 04:52 PM

Ok, here is what I have implemented to handle the four HTML extensions that Apple has made so far. I implemented Eric Meyer's default namespace proposal.

In HTML, in order for Safari or other Web Kit applications to recognize the new extensions, you must declare a default namespace on your root html element. This namespace's value at the moment is:

http://www.apple.com/2004/xhtml-extended/

Feedback on the above namespace identifier is welcome, if you think there's a better choice. Note that in HTML this namespace support isn't real. The default namespace declaration is all that will be checked, and it will act as a global switch that will just turn on all the HTML extensions.

However, the benefit comes when you switch to real XML. In the XML implementation, the namespace is completely real and effectively maps to a new language, Apple Extended XHTML, that has all the functionality of XHTML plus the extensions. In other words, in XML you can declare the namespace for real, use it with prefixes, use it only on canvas tags to keep the rest of the doc pure XHTML, etc.

I have not yet committed this solution, because I want to see if this meets with public approval first. Please trackback with suggestions and/or amendments.

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Sun: Everybody's got an angle

Sun: Everybody's got an angle 12/04/2003 03:35 PM
ZDNet Dec 4 2003 1:58PM ET

Working a new angle

Working a new angle 07/30/2004 01:53 AM
USA Today Jul 30 2004 6:02AM GMT

XP SP2: the business angle

XP SP2: the business angle 09/19/2004 12:18 AM
Personal Computer World Sep 19 2004 5:14AM GMT

The Zenith Angle

The Zenith Angle 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

Red Hat alums try new Linux angle

Red Hat alums try new Linux angle 07/13/2004 08:22 PM
Entrepreneurs get Specifix with software to modify and manage the kind of Linux software offered by their old employer.

The Difference Between Spin And An Angle

The Difference Between Spin And An Angle 02/12/2004 02:44 AM
This week, Techdirt got a lot of attention for pointing out the extraordinarily different takes on a speech by former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi from blogger s and a reporter from Reuters. If you read the different accounts, you would have sworn they were at entirely different speeches. Lots of websites picked up on that story and linked back to us - but now, former Reuters reporter Jeremy Wagstaff (who writes for Far Eastern Economic Review and WSJ.com - and on his own excellent blog) is taking me to task for calling the Reuters report "spin". He says there's a very important difference between "spin" and an "angle" and points out (absolutely correctly) that a journalist's job isn't necessarily to write up a summary of the entire speech, but to pick out the newsworthy point and write about that. He points to other press coverage of the same speech and notes that they all pick up on a different aspect of the speech. He also gives the standard reporter's excuse about deadlines and how things accidentally "creep into" stories where they don't belong. He points out (once again, correctly) that one of the nice things about blogs is that they give an alternate source for more info and context which the reporters don't do (it's not their job). These are all good points, and worth thinking about - but I still don't take back my original comments. While a reporter's job is to find out what's newsworthy and write about it, that does not mean taking something out of context - which is clearly what was done with that Reuters article. If you listen to the speech, Trippi spends the entire speech talking about what a revolutionary force the internet is when it comes to politics. Whether you believe that or not, if you read the Reuters report, you don't get that impression at all. You get the impression he blamed the internet. Giving people the impression of something that clearly was not being said is not an angle. It's spin (scroll down to spin) - and Reuters should be ashamed.

Rambus tries a new licensing angle

Rambus tries a new licensing angle 05/10/2004 12:14 AM
ZDNet May 10 2004 4:22AM GMT

Keith and Angle Brackets

Keith and Angle Brackets 05/31/2004 02:05 PM
This, by Dave Walker, shows up fifteen messages or so into the comments on a Dive Winer piece, and I can’t link to it directly (nothing purple), but it’s way too good to pass up: When the world ends, the only things left will be cockroaches, rats, Keith Richards, and mangled text that has been escaped one-too-many or one-too-few times.

Primecooler PC-HDB SuperSilent passive
HDD Cooler

Primecooler PC-HDB SuperSilent passive
HDD Cooler 04/13/2004 11:26 AM

Jobster Recruits Passive Job Seekers

Jobster Recruits Passive Job Seekers 03/29/2005 02:14 AM
Several startups serve up the latest twists in online job hunting, including Jobster's plans to launch a service that taps viral marketing and social-networking methods to uncover hidden candidates.

Passive Asset Detection System

Passive Asset Detection System 08/11/2004 09:19 PM
pads-1.0.2 new feature list has been frozen!

"This is exactly correct"

"This is exactly correct" 05/12/2004 04:03 AM

Web search finds local angle

Web search finds local angle 02/17/2003 09:09 AM
Web search technology companies including FAST Search & Transfer and Google are working with wireless phone companies to power mobile search that can benefit ...

Interview with iRobot CEO Colin Angle

Interview with iRobot CEO Colin Angle 05/09/2004 03:43 PM
BusinessWeek online has posted an intereview with iRobot CEO Colin Angle. Lots of talk about the Roomba and why it succeeded where so many other robot vaccuum cleaners have (and are) failing. The reason? Price. The Roomba sells for $200 while most competing robot vacuums are $1500+. Angle talks about the problems of convincing robot designers to consider component costs and manufacturing costs when designing a robot. There's also some discussion about the US falling behind in robots for elder-care and Angle offers some hints about household robots iRobot is working on that could "make housework a choice".

PasTmon - Passive Response Time Monitor

PasTmon - Passive Response Time Monitor 10/30/2003 02:47 PM
PasTmon-0.5-0(beta) released

Passive smoke risk 'even greater'

Passive smoke risk 'even greater' 06/29/2004 10:17 PM
Passive smoking is more dangerous than previously thought, say UK scientists.

Digital sundial: passive timekeeping
through new materials

Digital sundial: passive timekeeping
through new materials 12/02/2003 01:39 AM
Gosh, this is clever.

...the device is purely passive - it operates without electricity, and has no moving parts. Instead, the sunlight is cast through two cleverly designed masks in the shape of numbers that show the current time of day. The sundial is available in two versions, for use in either hemisphere. Placed on the inside of a south-facing window (north-facing in the southern hemisphere), the sundial can be read through the horizontal mirror. The display updates every 10 minutes, and gives a remarkably accurate record of the time during the daylight hours.

Link (Thanks, manx!)

"Digital sundial: passive timekeeping
through new materials"

"Digital sundial: passive timekeeping
through new materials" 12/02/2003 09:59 AM

Zalman Reserator Plus 1 Passive Cooling
Tower

Zalman Reserator Plus 1 Passive Cooling
Tower 06/22/2005 01:58 AM

Zalman has officially announced its Reserator 1 Plus passive water cooling system, a hulking black upgrade to the blue model first released over a year ago. The new model includes new CPU and GPU cooler designs as well as providing an anti-corrosive water additive in the box. I hope they changed the internal pump they used on the previous model, as I discovered the 1 Plus while searching for solutions to quiet the clattering propeller in the original Reserator sitting on my desk.

Since Zalman's website doesn't really have good information on the Plus 1, have a look at this pre-production model "review" on Hexus (really more of a 'we saw this thing at a show'). The release model isn't blue, but black, and will cost $300. Despite the noise problems I'm having with my current one, I sort of want to upgrade, but only because that would be a convenient excuse to build a whole new gaming rig.

Zalman's Reserator 1 Plus [Hexus]
Purchase Page [QuietPC]

PC: politically correct

PC: politically correct 07/08/2004 03:30 PM
Asian Age Jul 8 2004 8:14PM GMT

If Allah is correct

If Allah is correct 09/15/2004 03:40 PM
Allah

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"Le politiquement correct !"

"Le politiquement correct !" 04/07/2005 03:28 AM

NetSuite Competes on Sarbox Angle
(NewsFactor)

NetSuite Competes on Sarbox Angle
(NewsFactor) 06/17/2004 03:01 PM
NewsFactor - On-demand enterprise application provider NetSuite has announced 30 new customers among the ranks of publicly traded companies.

Sterling does a public interview on The
Zenith Angle

Sterling does a public interview on The
Zenith Angle 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: Bruce Sterling's doing a virtual public interview on the WELL this week about his new technothriller, The Zenith Angle. I really liked this -- the blurb I sent Bruce went "Sterling has his fingers on about a hundred different pulses in this book, which vibrates with fantastic in-jokes and insights from Bollywood to dot-bomb, from mil-spec gear-pigs to earnest cybercops. The story rockets along like a hijacked airliner heading straight at you, like a flash-worm compromising every unpatched Windows box on the net at once. I read it in one sitting, and I'll read it again before the month is out. Lots of books are called 'thrillers' but very few are this thrilling."

The thing that always intrigued me about technothrillers was that technicians are support staff rather than protagonists. I mean, who makes a worse enemy -- James Bond, with a "license to kill" -- or H. Ross Perot? Perot's a weedy-looking Wally Cox mainframe nerd, but he doesn't hesitate to hire ex=Special Forces types and conduct private black-bag operations in Iran.

Link

Intel Pushes Consumer Electronics Angle

Intel Pushes Consumer Electronics Angle 12/05/2003 01:54 PM
Leaders from Intel have been talking a lot lately about wanting to embed Intel's Wi-Fi chips into consumer electronics other than computers: I'll be glad to see that happen. Intel hopes to have its 802.11a/b/g product shipping early next year. This writer wonders why anyone would want the throughput offered by 802.11g. People want to do exactly what Intel hopes they'll do once 802.11g chips are embedded inside TVs and stereos--stream audio and video....

Canon introduces wide-angle PowerShot
S60

Canon introduces wide-angle PowerShot
S60 05/10/2004 08:34 AM
Canon Inc. introduced on Monday the five-megapixel PowerShot S60 digital camera, which features a newly developed 28-100mm UA wide-angle 3.6x zoom lens. The 3.6x zoom lens goes from a wide-angle focal length of 28mm to a telephoto of 100mm (35mm film equivalent), according to Canon. Because the new lens is thinner than its predecessor, Canon was also able to make the PowerShot S60 thinner than previous models. The PowerShot S60 will be available in June for $499; an optional underwater housing will also be available for $240. Canon's Web site has not been updated with the new product.

Improving Passive Packet Capture: Beyond
Device Polling

Improving Passive Packet Capture: Beyond
Device Polling 01/09/2004 09:52 PM

Passive Optical Fiber Seen Growing 310
Percent By 2009

Passive Optical Fiber Seen Growing 310
Percent By 2009 04/08/2005 10:04 AM
TechWeb Apr 8 2005 2:10PM GMT

Per-Pixel Encrypted Monitors Protect
from Off-Angle Snoops

Per-Pixel Encrypted Monitors Protect
from Off-Angle Snoops 05/10/2004 08:47 AM
Technology Review mentions a new computer screen developed by University of Tokushima researchers in Japan that can only be viewed from directly in front of the screen, making the view from any other angle a random pattern of pixels (which I have simulated in the image to the right, using...

It all starts here; The Sept. 11 angle
of Bush's campaign=The Hill.com=

It all starts here; The Sept. 11 angle
of Bush's campaign=The Hill.com= 09/02/2004 06:06 AM
Dick Morris: It All Starts Here: The Sept. 11 Angle Of Bush’s Campaign

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Innovating from the Ground Up, and the Idea-Implementation Disconnect

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