Microsoft Apple's best friend?

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Other News: Apple's Bench Friend

Other News: Apple's Bench Friend 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
Apple couldn't have found a friendlier judge than James P. Kleinberg, who's helping Apple lawyers seek leaks.

Another New Friend for Microsoft

Another New Friend for Microsoft 05/21/2004 06:59 PM
Business Week May 21 2004 11:12PM GMT

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

Topics

The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

[it's the danbri and Libby show!]

Who's Your Online Music Friend? Not
Microsoft

Who's Your Online Music Friend? Not
Microsoft 01/28/2004 12:27 PM
Cory sez: Copyright law has never said that the guy who makes the records gets to tell you what kind of record player you can use. If Scoble and his employer want to offer a product with "features" that their customers want, those features should reflect what their customers want: No Windows user rolled out of bed this morning and said, "I wish there was a way that I could get Microsoft to deliver me tools that allow me to do less with the music I buy."

Will you be my friend? To grow,
Microsoft loses its hard-nosed edge

Will you be my friend? To grow,
Microsoft loses its hard-nosed edge 05/15/2004 09:37 PM
US News May 16 2004 1:17AM GMT

Can Microsoft Slay Apple's Music
Goliath?

Can Microsoft Slay Apple's Music
Goliath? 09/02/2004 09:31 PM
According to analysts, content owners are gravitating toward the Microsoft format because of Apple's refusal to license its FairPlay software. By Mark Essig, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

Microsoft Challenges Apple's iTunes
Store, But It Isn't There Yet

Microsoft Challenges Apple's iTunes
Store, But It Isn't There Yet 09/02/2004 11:51 AM

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In the battle to dominate the emerging business of online music sales, the 800-pound gorilla finally is taking the field. Today, Microsoft rolls out its MSN Music store, directly challenging its nemesis, Apple Computer, which so far has ruled that business. I’ve been testing Microsoft’s new store in advance of today’s launch and comparing it with Apple’s much-praised iTunes music store. While the Microsoft entry has a few nice touches, it is typical of many…

Microsoft takes aim at Apple's online
music

Microsoft takes aim at Apple's online
music 09/01/2004 06:34 AM
Mcall.com - Wed Sep 1, 09:59 am GMT

Microsoft Taking on Apple's Music Store
(AP)

Microsoft Taking on Apple's Music Store
(AP) 08/30/2004 05:25 PM
AP - Microsoft Corp., hoping to take a bite out of Apple Computer Inc.'s highly popular online music service, is gearing up to launch its own Web site for selling songs over the Internet.

Microsoft Taking on Apple's Music Store

Microsoft Taking on Apple's Music Store 08/30/2004 07:38 PM
AP via Newsday Aug 31 2004 0:07AM GMT

Microsoft To Take On Apple's iTunes In
Netmusic Battle

Microsoft To Take On Apple's iTunes In
Netmusic Battle 08/27/2004 02:03 PM
Microsoft will not be delivering a competitor to the iPod, but a number of hardware vendors are expected to piggyback the announcement of its service and launch portable players in direct challenge to Apple's phenomenally successfully product. By John Sterlicchi, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

Microsoft steals a riff from Apple's
iTunes

Microsoft steals a riff from Apple's
iTunes 08/30/2004 10:21 AM
IHT Aug 30 2004 1:59PM GMT

Update 5: Microsoft Taking on Apple's
Music Store

Update 5: Microsoft Taking on Apple's
Music Store 08/30/2004 09:31 PM
Forbes Aug 31 2004 1:26AM GMT

Update 4: Microsoft Taking on Apple's
Music Store

Update 4: Microsoft Taking on Apple's
Music Store 08/30/2004 09:31 PM
Forbes Aug 31 2004 1:27AM GMT

Microsoft to challenge Apple's online
music store

Microsoft to challenge Apple's online
music store 08/31/2004 06:31 AM
Pasadenastarnews.com - Tue Aug 31, 08:17 am GMT

Microsoft follows Apple's lead to cell
phone market

Microsoft follows Apple's lead to cell
phone market 09/10/2004 11:08 AM

Open Or Closed? Apple's Real Battle With
Microsoft Over Standards

Open Or Closed? Apple's Real Battle With
Microsoft Over Standards 09/09/2004 08:33 PM
The first thing we can do as users, Mac or Windows, is not worry too much about the so-called standards, but adopt that which works well for us. By Alex Kayhill, Mac360 (via MyAppleMenu)

Microsoft set to join music race after
Apple's head start

Microsoft set to join music race after
Apple's head start 08/30/2004 07:26 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 30 2004 11:11PM GMT

Analyst: Apple's Music Dominance
Reaching Microsoft Heights (NewsFactor)

Analyst: Apple's Music Dominance
Reaching Microsoft Heights (NewsFactor) 07/28/2004 03:01 PM
NewsFactor - Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) analyst Steven Milunovich says the alliance between Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Motorola (NYSE: MOT), announced July 26th, could turn Apple into the "Microsoft of music" and make the iPod the "de facto standard in digital music."

REVIEW Mac covers most software needs
Apple's OS X makes Microsoft Office
extraneous

REVIEW Mac covers most software needs
Apple's OS X makes Microsoft Office
extraneous 08/30/2004 06:34 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Aug 30 2004 10:43AM GMT

NTT DoCoMo FOMA 3G Subscriber Success
Bolsters Apple's QuickTime, Microsoft
Left Out

NTT DoCoMo FOMA 3G Subscriber Success
Bolsters Apple's QuickTime, Microsoft
Left Out 12/04/2003 08:27 PM
(MacDailyNews via MyAppleMenu)

Over a year late, Microsoft tries to
match Apple's iTunes with Windows Media
Player 10

Over a year late, Microsoft tries to
match Apple's iTunes with Windows Media
Player 10 06/04/2004 09:10 AM
"The next version of Microsoft Corp's Windows Media Player looks set to be the company's answer to Apple Inc's iTunes and RealNetworks Inc's music services, featuring a built-in music and movie store for the first time," Computer Business Review Online reports. "Microsoft released a "technical beta" of WMP 10 this week, and said it features a streamlined interface and a Digital Media Mall comprised of storefronts provided by partners Napster LLC, MusicNow LLC and CinemaNow Inc. The company is also saying that WMP simplifies the process of transferring tracks from PCs to portable devices and synchronizing playlists. WMP 10 will automatically detect compatible devices and synchronize via a new Multimedia Transfer Protocol."

CVS Wants to Be Your Best Friend
(Really)

CVS Wants to Be Your Best Friend
(Really) 08/05/2002 10:44 PM

IM a Friend

IM a Friend 04/14/2005 02:03 AM

Feature Creep

“Those of you who read this site via RSS/Atom/LiveJournal syndication may have missed our latest site feature, ‘IM to a friend’.

As of this last Friday, there's a tiny AIM icon next to the title of each entry. When it's clicked on, most AIM clients should give you a new message window containing the URL of the entry you'd like to share with a friend. After you enter their screen name and send the message, feel free to chat about what you've sent their way. It works transparently and is loads easier than a standard copy and paste.

Yeah, we're trying to harbor conversation about our site and drive our traffic up. We're also trying to make sending URLs to friends a bit easier. We stole the idea from our friends at blogging.la….

Note: Trillian doesn't seem to install handlers for ‘aim:‘ links. If you run Trillian and click on the link, there's a good chance that nothing will happen. iChat and the official AIM client seem to be all good tho. Sorry Trillian users.” [Preshrunk]

Intere sting idea for those libraries exploring IM. Might be a nice reverse idea on the idea of creating IM interfaces into the catalog, too.

Your friend: the FBI

Your friend: the FBI 04/15/2004 11:36 AM

Thoughts for Tax Day:  A friend sent t his article on various rules that restrict the U.S. government from investigating terrorists.  The implication of the article is that we'd all be better off if the CIA and the FBI could work unfettered.  Certainly the widows and orphans of September 11th would be better off.  Yet our government has a history of pouring tremendous amounts of effort in the wrong areas, often resulting in months or years of misery for innocent people.  One of the more humorous recent examples is Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan's detain ment at the Vancouver airport.  We want the Federales to be strong enough to hunt down Saudi terrorists in flight schools but sufficiently weak that we can throw them off our own backs when necessary.

[As noted on Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, if you're sending a check to the IRS this year put a couple of extra stamps on the envelope because it's going all the way to Iraq.]

my friend my friend, my friend ...

my friend my friend, my friend ... 09/02/2004 11:38 AM
smile, YOU'VE JUST BEEN KICKED IN THE NUTS!

MySQL.com: A New Look for an Old Friend

MySQL.com: A New Look for an Old Friend 12/16/2002 09:08 AM

Friend of research?

Friend of research? 06/21/2004 10:13 PM
USA Today Jun 22 2004 2:47AM GMT

Could iPod Be Your Next Best Friend?

Could iPod Be Your Next Best Friend? 03/28/2005 10:05 AM

It's called anthropomorphizing, giving an inaminate object a human personality. By Heather Svokos, Knight Ridder News Service

On the Web, anonymity is a friend -- and
a foe

On the Web, anonymity is a friend -- and
a foe 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 22 2004 11:38AM GMT

Our Friend, The Meter

Our Friend, The Meter 06/23/2004 01:16 AM

strtotime(); Is My Friend

strtotime(); Is My Friend 11/20/2002 10:40 AM
Made a quick php script went through and converted my post dates to Unix time stamps. Much fun was had by all.

Be my friend? Only on my turf.

Be my friend? Only on my turf. 07/14/2004 04:53 PM
Release 1.0 editor Esther Dyson examines the promise--and the confusion--around social networks.

A friend in need...for only $5 a month

A friend in need...for only $5 a month 09/06/2004 03:34 AM
ZDNet Australia Sep 6 2004 7:53AM GMT

ASPjar Tell-a-Friend

ASPjar Tell-a-Friend 03/17/2005 03:53 AM
farhad koosha (Mar 15 2005)

Our friend eloped!

Our friend eloped! 12/28/2004 09:25 AM
She ran off with a guy we don't really like, and told her family but not her friends!

Be my friend? Only on my turf

Be my friend? Only on my turf 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
CNET Jul 14 2004 11:22PM GMT

mod_gzip is your friend. Really

mod_gzip is your friend. Really 02/18/2004 01:34 PM
As is whatever the module for Apache 2.0 is. I finally broke down and snagged an RSS content aggregator thingie (which, in addition to confirming my feelings that polling for RSS feeds sucks more than Cygnus X-1, now makes me want RSS feeds on places that don't have them. EurekAlert and The New Scientist spring to mind) since I've got enough places I go infrequently that I was starting to lose track of which ones I'd been to lately and which I hadn't. 'Tis keen, though I'd like to be able to twiddle more stuff than the tool allows. No...

Well, not *that* kind of a friend

Well, not *that* kind of a friend 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
Cheap i18n fun for the morning (emphasises mine):

I'm absolutely sure this will help people come together... For any non-finnish speakers out there, "orkut" is a common slang term for "orgasm". "Sain orkut" = "I had an orgasm". Well picked site name, indeed. It's even affiliated with Google :-).

ROTFLMAO!

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