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Speech tomorrow at Rakuten

Speech tomorrow at Rakuten 01/08/2004 08:09 PM

I'm giving a speech about the future of the Internet tomorrow afternoon from 2:30pm-3:30pm JST. The speech will be at the Rakuten New Year party. (Rakuten acquired Infoseek Japan and I am now on the Portal Group advisory committee.) I'll try to stream it, but it will be in Japanese. My slides are in English and I've put my outline on my wiki. Please feel free to add comments or links to examples on the wiki. The outline just lists the topics I will cover, but not what I'm going to say. ;-)

I'll be giving live demos of #joiito and IM so if you're around, I might ping you.

I'll be using keynote exported to QT inside of Safari with my examples loaded in tabs.

The latest version of the Keynote QT is here.

GRIPE : Keynote doesn't let you put hyperlinks in presentations. They should either figure out some way to embed Safari inside of a Keynote presentation or allow hyperlinks. Apple Computer presentations use two machines, one for browsing and one for Keynote. Doh. Not very user-friendly.

I will be streaming this if I have enough bandwidth. Copy and paste this URL into QuickTime rtsp://stream.joi.ito.com/j oitv.sdp. (Warning. Japanese.)

UPDATE: Sorry folks. Didn't have a Net connection so couldn't connect to IRC or get Hecklebot working.

Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten, Masuda, CEO of CCC/Tsutaya and me. Photo by Ms. Noumura.

Rakuten To Expand Internet Services To
Search For

Rakuten To Expand Internet Services To
Search For 12/29/2004 01:45 PM
Antara Dec 29 2004 4:11PM GMT

Japan's Nikkei 225 Declines; UFJ Drops
as Yahoo Japan, Rakuten Advance

Japan's Nikkei 225 Declines; UFJ Drops
as Yahoo Japan, Rakuten Advance 12/29/2004 03:16 AM
Bloomberg Dec 29 2004 6:46AM GMT

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Following the news from Mars, people might think it was the story of scientists who cried "Water!" over and over.

eBay’s Global Transformation: Fast, but
Not Fast Enough

eBay’s Global Transformation: Fast, but
Not Fast Enough 03/17/2005 03:02 AM
Byte Level Research publishes a global analysis of eBay’s business strategy and Web site. By 2006, more than half of eBay's revenues will come from outside the US. However, to maintain mementum, eBay must expand its pace of expansion and improve its Web globalization navigation. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]

Fast Internet turns a fast buck

Fast Internet turns a fast buck 12/23/2003 08:07 PM
Haaretz Dec 23 2003 7:26PM ET

Fast Company | Fast Company Contacts and
Customer Service

Fast Company | Fast Company Contacts and
Customer Service 06/27/2004 04:46 AM
From the FastCompany website .. linking policy .. send a fax .. Contact Us

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Fast Company's Fast 50

Fast Company's Fast 50 02/16/2004 08:13 PM
Ben and I made Fast Company's Fast 50. The issue available on newstands now. Wow. That's pretty darn neat....

XP SP2: Not So Fast

XP SP2: Not So Fast 08/05/2004 10:11 AM
We're hearing Microsoft has discovered some last-minute issues in its Windows XP Service Pack 2 bits. Release to manufacturing is still imminent. It's just not likely to be today.

gpp 2.1a (Fast)

gpp 2.1a (Fast) 12/04/2003 10:42 AM
A generic preprocessor with customizable syntax.

Fast but going nowhere

Fast but going nowhere 08/03/2004 12:36 PM
Tom Quinn, vice president at Linux Networx, says speed obsession threatens to take computer development down the wrong path.

DV-done, that fast

DV-done, that fast 06/22/2004 09:06 AM
USA Today Jun 22 2004 12:44PM GMT

Fast WMS

Fast WMS 02/11/2004 10:50 AM
Autoconf enabled

Too Much Too Fast

Too Much Too Fast 05/19/2004 01:22 PM
In a move that I've been expecting for quite some time, Apple has publicly gone on record saying that they'll...

Bhs signs up again with CSC

Bhs signs up again with CSC 02/12/2004 09:57 AM
Shovels Ł80m supplier's way

Signs

Signs 02/10/2004 02:48 AM

Beautiful and useful signage.

Config-Fast-1.04

Config-Fast-1.04 11/04/2003 11:41 PM

Fast Browser v6.4.0

Fast Browser v6.4.0 12/11/2003 03:40 PM
Fast Browser is an advanced multi-tab browser, expand and simplify the way you surf the Web. [Shareware $29.95 1.42 MB]

Build it Fast 0.3.10

Build it Fast 0.3.10 06/07/2004 08:27 PM
A PHP framework for developing Web applications quickly.

Is Pharrot That Fast?

Is Pharrot That Fast? 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
I have not seen the sources of the Pharrot compiler, but if it is just a proof of concept, it is not likely that much error-checking is done. I expect the figures for Pharrot below to increase by at least 50% when all the error-handling is put in.

The figures are still very impressive despite these reservations.

Generating a Mandelbrot fractal
 – PHP,                     2.4  seconds
 – PHP-Hacked,              1.2  seconds
 – Parrot without JIT,      0.5  seconds x1.5 = .75
 – Parrot with JIT (Intel), 0.08 seconds x1.5 = .12

Build it Fast 0.3.2

Build it Fast 0.3.2 03/09/2004 01:42 AM
A PHP framework for developing Web applications quickly.

Fast and furious

Fast and furious 03/30/2005 01:47 AM
CNN Mar 30 2005 4:18AM GMT

The 2004 Fast 50

The 2004 Fast 50 03/08/2004 11:15 PM

Fast Tray v1.4

Fast Tray v1.4 12/02/2003 09:54 AM
Fast Tray is a tray launcher that lets you gain quick access to most frequently used applications and system commands via a customizable menu. It is not only can you open applications and files, but launch screen savers, shutdown and reboot your computer and more from the system tray! Also you can use this multifunctional utility for everything, from opening multiple applications to optimizing your computing environment! Download free trial! [Shareware $19.95 15 Days 1.10 MB]

Build it Fast 0.3.0

Build it Fast 0.3.0 02/13/2004 12:09 PM
A PHP framework for developing Web applications quickly.

Build it Fast 0.2.0

Build it Fast 0.2.0 12/02/2003 11:32 PM
A PHP framework for developing Web applications quickly.

Cisco Gets FAST

Cisco Gets FAST 02/14/2004 01:04 AM
Cisco develops new EAP-FAST method to avoid certificates for username/password authentication without passive dictionary attack threat: Cisco EAP-FAST (Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling) uses a pre-shared secret or a Diffie-Hellman key agreement exchange to mutually authenticate both the client and server in a tunnel and avoid man in the middle attacks. Once the tunnel is established, the secrets can be changed as well, according to the draft of the standard submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The standard will be available as a free download from existing Cisco software at the end of March, and the company hopes to have it accepted alongside PEAP as a method of securing EAP without the same overhead issues involved in that standard. Cisco isn't abandoning PEAP, they said, and will make the protocol available to its secure extensions partners, which includes most chipmakers. Interestingly, a systems engineer who has built a tool to automate dictionary attacks on Cisco's weak LEAP (Lightweight EAP) is quoted as agreeing to delay release of his tool longer because Cisco has continued to work on solving the problem through this new standard....

2 fast + 2 curious

2 fast + 2 curious 07/04/2004 12:54 AM
2 Fast + 2 Curious [note : flash]

Fast off the block

Fast off the block 12/04/2003 06:07 AM
USA Today Dec 4 2003 5:06AM ET

Fast Work

Fast Work 12/04/2003 11:52 AM
1.feb.2004

Fast CVS Client

Fast CVS Client 11/14/2003 04:06 PM
Officially dead

Not So Fast, Comcast

Not So Fast, Comcast 02/17/2004 06:03 AM
Business Week Feb 17 2004 10:18AM GMT

2005 Fast 50

2005 Fast 50 03/22/2005 05:12 PM

Fast CD Ripper v1.53

Fast CD Ripper v1.53 01/27/2004 04:02 PM
Fast CD Ripper - powerful and easy-to-use tool for converting your audio-CD collection to variety of compressed audio formats (WMA 8, OGG and MP3) with ID3Tag v2 support and to uncompressed audio (WAV PCM) . Fast direct conversion with jitter correction feature, CDDB support - with all these features process of conversion becomes safe and fast, and easy interface allows you to convert audio-CD to compressed audio format almost by one click. [Shareware $24.95 14 Days 5.19 MB]

H-1B visas going fast

H-1B visas going fast 01/26/2004 03:01 PM
This year's cap of 65,000 H-1B guest worker visas is already close to being reached, as employers race to snap up the controversial visas.

Build it Fast 0.3.11

Build it Fast 0.3.11 06/11/2004 09:05 PM
A PHP framework for developing Web applications quickly.

Fast Track

Fast Track 07/23/2004 09:57 PM
Fast Track: "ForwardTrack is a new system created by Eyebeam R&D designed to promote on-line activism. The system tracks and maps the diffusion of email forwards, political calls-to-action, and petitions. Our goal is to help people understand decentralized networks and see the power of "6 degrees of separation." ForwardTrack technology ...

Why I'll never be a fast runner

Why I'll never be a fast runner 08/11/2004 10:24 AM
An interesting article in the New York Times yesterday examines Why Joggers Labor and Olympians Fly. Apparently elite atheletes (like we know from cyclist Lance Armstrong) possess physiological traits that "normal" people don't have, such as larger hearts. Exercise physiologists say there are three components to great running: A high VO2 max, the volume of oxygen an athlete can consume at maximum exertion; great running efficiency, a measurement of the energy used to run at a particular pace; and an ability to keep going at a high level of exertion for a long time, expressed as the percentage of VO2 max that can be sustained during a run. Some day I'd like to get my VO2 max measured. Meanwhile, my marathon training has been progressing quite well, or it was until yesterday when I was running in the woods, took my mind off the trail, and started thinking about the interval training I was going to do after I warmed up. Then I tripped on a root and went non-Olympian flying through the air, bonking my knee as I skidded along the pine needled floor of the forest. No interval training after that, just a slow jog back home and a day of icing the knee. I guess I'm still in the "Joggers Labor" phase of my running career.

FC Now: Fast Company... on the Air!

FC Now: Fast Company... on the Air! 09/01/2004 06:16 AM
Fast Company's managing editor Lynn Moloney will appear on ABC World News This Morning to discuss "Finding Your 'Best-Stress Zone'" tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 1, at...
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Shibori Japanese Tye-Dye

Shibori Japanese Tye-Dye 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
Shibori< /a> is an amazing Japanese textile dying technique--a very sophisticated form of tie-dye, where nubby, lumpy, bizarre things like this are transformed after dying into this fish or these flo wers (scroll for detail) or these starbursts. Specifically this odd thing became this (detail). You can find excellent photos and descriptions of the process here, here(scroll down and hold mouse over photo), and here. There is also information at the World Shibori Network . This photo shows partially dyed fabric and here is a video of the preparation for dying. Shibori is very labor intensive (carpal tunnel syndrome-city) and was a one time subject to a sumptuary tax and one form was outlawed by an emperor for being too extravagant. There are many different knots and ties for different patterns--browse here, here(gallery1-7), and here. Shibori can be used to make some striking and detailed images. Diverse examples of shibori --iris, layer ed squares, waves, kimonos, large bridge banner, subtle black and white winter scene, , a nifty “aerial view” of earth as a tidal pool with hot air balloons (detail of anemones). Don't miss the stunning work of Hiroko Harada (English/Japanese) . I especially like Rain In the Forest, There Are Ripples On the Cloth, Seasonal Changes, and this large installation. You can browse more here, but the Japanese page has more.

"A Dying Craft, or a Dying Business?"

"A Dying Craft, or a Dying Business?" 04/02/2005 11:08 AM

Text-Textile-0.6

Text-Textile-0.6 10/29/2003 01:14 AM

Catalyst-Plugin-Textile-0.01

Catalyst-Plugin-Textile-0.01 04/17/2005 03:20 PM

Fraying of a Latin Textile Industry

Fraying of a Latin Textile Industry 03/25/2005 07:04 AM
Shifting global trade rules threaten to reverse El Salvador's industrial revolution by destroying its garment industry.

Wikilike Blosxom Plugins: textile 2 and
kwiki

Wikilike Blosxom Plugins: textile 2 and
kwiki 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Todd Larason has released a textile 2 Blosxom plugin, a wrapper around Brad Choate's mttextile, in turn an implementation of Dean Allen's textile 2 powerful text formatting engine.

I finally had a couple-three minutes to rub together and used them to create a quickie kwiki plugin which uses Brian Ingerson's CGI::Kwiki as a formatting tool for Blosxom weblog entries.

Between the text-formatting options offered by the textile 2, kwiki, or tiki plugins, wikiword functionality of the wikiwordish plugin, and in-page editing of the wikieditish plugin, we've a nice set of tools for building Blosxom-based a fully-categorizable WikiWeblog.

In fact, paranoidfish< /a> did a little outside the script thinking, combining CGI::Kwiki and Blosxom in a way that let's you publish a Kwiki page to your Blosxom blog.

The similarities between CGI::Kwiki and Bloxsom are obvious - both are brilliantly simple, and both use plain text files in a directory as a file system. So, I was wondering if it was possible to use CGI::Kwiki as a backend for Blosxom in some way. Unsurprisingly, the answer is yes.

I did some similar fiddling a while back, sharing a data directory between Blosxom and moinmoin. Every wiki page was a blog post; every blog post a wiki page.

Textile Assocations Should Heed
Intellectual Property Rights More
Seriously : President

Textile Assocations Should Heed
Intellectual Property Rights More
Seriously : President 05/26/2004 06:03 PM
Antara Interactive May 26 2004 9:12PM GMT

For when you're dying to know...

For when you're dying to know... 04/18/2004 08:23 PM
Cinemorgue - Proof that some people have way too much time on their hands.

I feel like I'm dying

I feel like I'm dying 06/03/2004 09:19 AM
I've been married for 14 years to a woman who is clinically depressed. Will the pain ever end?

Why the Windows API is Dying

Why the Windows API is Dying 06/17/2004 06:45 AM

How Microsoft Lost the API War: This is an incredibly long, but very interesting, article from Joel Spolsky in which he explains why the venerable Windows API is dying. He spends 6,252 fasinating words and a couple of dozen tangents getting to this point at the end:

[...] Microsoft's API doesn't matter so much. Web applications don't require Windows. [...]

I'm actually a little bit sad about this, myself. To me the Web is great but Web-based applications with their sucky, high-latency, inconsistent user interfaces are a huge step backwards in daily usability. I love my rich client applications and would go nuts if I had to use web versions of the applications I use daily [...]

None of this bodes well for Microsoft and the profits it enjoyed thanks to its API power. The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.

He also says this about .Net, which will make my friend Matt feel happy and vindicated because I razz him all the time about being a Microsoft whore:

Much as I hate to say it, a huge chunk of developers have long since moved to the web and refuse to move back. Most .NET developers are ASP.NET developers, developing for Microsoft's web server. ASP.NET is brilliant; I've been working with web development for ten years and it's really just a generation ahead of everything out there.

There you go Matt, now leave me alone.

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"A dying church"

"A dying church" 05/15/2004 02:22 PM

kuro5hin is dying

kuro5hin is dying 04/27/2004 03:47 PM
Where is Rusty? An abandoned community cries out for its creator to return.

A Long Dying Done...

A Long Dying Done... 04/24/2004 12:42 AM
Spalding Gray, as my friend Mountain Girl said, had a very long dying. Part of him died colliding with a mad cow veterinarian in Ireland during the summer of 2001. A lot of him died in cranial surgery on the Upper East Side in September of that year. He literally died in New York Harbor in January. For many, he conclusively died only when his mortal shell surfaced near Greenpoint last month. For myself, I laid him to rest, as much as I ever will, a week ago in the Vivian Beaumont Theater. I have surpassed the usual lifetime quota of memorial services by some long measure but I don't know that I have ever attended one that felt more appropriate to the essence of its focal missing person. Spalding Gray was as present as anyone so absent could possibly be. He was present in the monsoon deluge that soaked me on the way to Lincoln Center. It was a rain where you could drown by looking up, as turkeys are said to sometimes do, and it leaked in streams through the aging 60's roof of the Vivian Beaumont, pooling in several areas of the stage but missing the lonely oak table and its empty chair. He was present in elegant clarity of those who rose to remember him. He was present in their humor and their melancholy, their heartful candor, their diversity. And it was a motley crew it was, ranging from fellow monologuist Eric Bigosian to musician Laurie Anderson to actor Eric Stolz to poet Bob Holman to composer Philip Glass playing a musical sigh for piano and clarinet, to Judy Collins leading us all in "Amazing Grace." There were some perfect moments, like when essayist Roger Rosenblatt, perfectly manicured and patrician, recalled Spalding's prodigious farts. Or when his very close friend Robby Stein talked about Spalding, the weirdly great dad, and you could see his results so clearly in the shy, impish smile that his son Theo wore when he mounted the stage. He provided some of those moments himself, though various video clips from his monologues, his stage performances, and a wonderful out-take from a Barbara Kopple documentary which, though shot after his accident, made it clear that the old Spalding was still with us until his second surgery in September of 2001. In it, there were dogs howling in the background, and his visible appreciation of them reminded me of the time that he convinced me and another friend to bay like wolves with him in a fancy Tribeca restaurant. And a whole table full of Wall Street swells howled back. He will have another memorial service for family and close friends in Sag Harbor on May 15, and I expect that the virtual monument you are building here with your comments will continue to grow. But I'm am going to get back to blogging about other things now. I'm very glad that I was able to provide a place for this to happen, but I feel like it's time for me to move on. In closing this chapter, here are the brief remarks I read at the Vivian Beaumont, condensed in part from things I've said here. I've said my piece and I will let Spuddy rest in his....

Is Google Dying?

Is Google Dying? 09/01/2004 01:16 PM
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WebMonkey is Dying

WebMonkey is Dying 02/17/2004 04:58 PM

Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 – 2004: WebMonkey is where I learned everything I told the interviewer I knew in the three weeks between the job interview and my first day. My first relational database design came from a tutorial on this site.

Webmonkey, the site that turned humble Web developers into attention-grabbing authors, said last week it is closing down following a round of layoffs in the U.S. division of its parent company, Terra Lycos (also the parent company of Wired News). Judging by blog posts and e-mails, the site's fans aren't surprised. Still, they're sad to see the end of an era.

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Are the TV networks dying?

Are the TV networks dying? 04/11/2005 08:14 AM

US TV to show dying Diana

US TV to show dying Diana 04/21/2004 05:15 PM
The US television network CBS will show images of Diana moments after the car crash which led to her death.

When it's set to Busy, you'd better be
either dying or on fire

When it's set to Busy, you'd better be
either dying or on fire 12/22/2004 01:53 AM
Tom has a good post on the weird context shifts caused by IM on hiptops. On both sides there are social problems that emerge because the behaviour of the interfaces is confused with the behaviour of the people at either...

Now The Cassette Tape Is Dying?

Now The Cassette Tape Is Dying? 06/17/2005 03:33 PM
Earlier this week, we thought the VHS tape was dying, but that turned out to be a slight exaggeration. However, the VHS's older brother, the audio cassette tape may actually be on its last legs. The article notes, of course, that when the recordable cassette tape first came out, the recording industry freaked out and claimed that it would be the death of music (sound familiar?). Instead, it helped grow the music business, in part because of the ability for people to create mix tapes and give them to others to help introduce them to new music.

NSC Statistics - What are the Odds of
Dying

NSC Statistics - What are the Odds of
Dying 11/02/2003 06:30 AM
The wonderful, wonderful odds of dying by hot tap water, melting nightwear, or contact with lizards .. released a report calculating your odds of dying .. 3. pick your poison

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email dying - rss alternatives

email dying - rss alternatives 01/07/2004 06:56 PM
Steve Outing [via sn< /a>]: "Any e-mail publisher with a survival instinct should be publishing RSS feeds of the content that it currently e-mails." Nomention of my essay, so here's the link again.

Pay Phones: A Dying Breed?

Pay Phones: A Dying Breed? 04/11/2005 03:50 AM
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The Dying Art of Bullet Making

The Dying Art of Bullet Making 06/24/2005 07:07 PM

Who knew that bullet making was quickly becoming an old fashioned activity? I you want a low tech how-to, this one’s for you: “Like darning socks, making bullets is a dying art. Used to be just about everyone with a need for ammo poured their own, using iron or even wooden molds. These days only a few diehard hobbyists still do it, and they use aluminum molds. But even fewer people still make silver bullets….

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Textism › Tools › Textile

Textism › Tools › Textile 03/21/2003 11:25 AM
Dean Allen’s great typography tool .. Textism: "A humane web text generator" .. humanen Webtext-Generator .. seeing Textile in action .. neat text formatting .. Textile 1.0 .. Textile .. textile .. Textism

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Rings stolen from dying pensioner

Rings stolen from dying pensioner 04/05/2005 07:05 AM
A 98-year-old woman had rings stolen from her fingers as she lay dying in a Manchester hospital, police say.

Stunning new photos of dying star

Stunning new photos of dying star 09/10/2004 11:27 AM

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“Dying stars, called planetary nebulae, very often have rings such as those seen in this image, astronomers have found. This photo depicts the Cat’s Eye Nebula, one such dying star. It’s 3,000 light years away. The rings, found in at least one third of all planetary nebulae, may be the key to explaining the final “gasp” of the central star as it bursts apart. Scientists describe these rings as a “nested Russian doll” structure, but…

mod_perl presence dying at OSCON

mod_perl presence dying at OSCON 06/08/2004 01:03 AM
stas writes "It appears that in the last few years we have had fewer and fewer mod_perl talks and tutorials at the big (non-YAPC) conferences. And that's a bad trend. It certainly affects the number of mod_perl job offers, since those who decide which ...

Netcraft Confirms It: Comdex is Dying

Netcraft Confirms It: Comdex is Dying 06/23/2004 03:55 PM

Gah! This fucknut canceled Comdex. "We feel that while we could run Comdex profitably this year, it really wouldn't serve the interests of the broader IT industry," says Eric Faurot. Really, though, I don't blame him. Comdex might be able to be run at a profit, but it's been bleeding visitors and interesting products for a while now. There haven't been any booth babes for years, for instance. Still, it's Comdex!

Wait, Comdex isn't a comics convention? Oh, good riddance, then.
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Dying Languages, Fading Formats

Dying Languages, Fading Formats 03/20/2003 03:13 PM

Smoking PC, Spam is Dying, EMC & VMWare

Smoking PC, Spam is Dying, EMC & VMWare 12/22/2003 06:42 AM
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