Monthly Archives: June 2004

Apple Invents, Microsoft Steals?

Dave Winer: That’s often been the lie around Apple, that they invent and Microsoft steals. I like to tell the story of how Mac scripting software came to be. I was in the audience at a Bill Gates speech in … Continue reading

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Spyware injecting ads into Google results?

One of my friends was cribbing about how the quality of Google’s search results seemed to have gone down the toilet lately. Some questions later it was obvious this was not the usual griping about Pagerank. He sent me a … Continue reading

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Link-love from the Scobleizer

A big Thank-You to Robert Scoble for the link… two hundred hits over the weekend. Wow.

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SpaceShipOne Flies — and Lands!

Woohoo! SpaceShipOne flew – and landed! They are now preparing for another flight that, if successful, would mean they win the X Prize. Great news for all of us who believe that there’s more to our future than quarrelling over … Continue reading

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Unused Gmail Invitations

I have some unused Gmail invitations, write to me if you need one.

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Slashdot Amigos

The (afaik) undocumented Amigos page on Slashdot lists recent journal entries from all your Friends. Great, now all I need is an RSS feed for this.

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Microsoft and the API War

Right or wrong, Joel scored a slam dunk with his ditty on the API Wars. I disagree with a couple of the points there (and the article does take care to note that it is overgeneralizing) but one of his points rings true: Microsoft lost a whole generation of developers. However, it is not clear that soldiering on with the Raymond Chen approach1, with its 80s era design, would have solved anything. Continue reading

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SuperScroll for Firefox

Folk bothered by Firefox’s slow (1-line) up/down-arrow scrolling can install Cosmic Cat’s SuperScroll extension and set directional scrolling to an IE-like 4 lines.

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Yahoo Messenger 6 Causes Problems

Yahoo Messenger 6 is now bloatware, piggyback-ware (it installs several Yahoo tie-ins, like Yahoo Internet Mail and Yahoo Autocomplete even when these are unchecked in Messenger Installer Options) and vampire-ware (refuses to die: removing Yahoo Internet Mail was an ordeal … Continue reading

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Liberation Spectrum

Life imitates art: Native American Wireless ISP launches. Coming soon: Liberation Spectrum.

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