Thursday, February 28, 2002

[Hack the Planet] Digital Identity: Liberty: betting on SAML? It's not clear that SAML actually provides general Web single-sign-on. 10:43:09 PM

[xmlhack] XML Pipeline Definition Language introduced as Note. The W3C has released XML Pipeline Definition Language, which describes "the processing relationships between XML resources" as a Note. 7:58:32 PM

[Scripting News] Today we started linking Russ's tutorials into the directory on the Radio site.  4:18:51 PM

[CNET News.com] Brainstorming next year's PC. Intel says it's working with PC and component makers to usher in design standards that, ideally, would result in more stylish and versatile computers.  Sounds like they see the threat to their componentization strategy from Apple's new iMac design. 4:17:49 PM

[CNET News.com] When a city's cost is bad for business. San Francisco and Silicon Valley are among the most expensive places in North America for high-tech companies to do business, a study says.  They suggest Canada! 4:13:48 PM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog] Google Compute.  Three problems with this: 1) My computer time is valuable.  I paid for it.  Pay me for its use.  Who wants to donate resources to people that drive high end sports cars?  Not me.  Who do you think pays these organizations to reasearch this stuff?  The government and huge pharms.  Extra money from this would help me upgrade my computer to do more work.  Don't you think for a moment that big VCs aren't behind this.  They will make huge bucks on this if it takes off.  Although I think John Doerr is a good guy, I don't want to subsidize his lifestyle at my expense. 2) I don't like the idea of what could happen to my computer when I cede control.  It is an essential part of me.  It's like renting an arm or a leg. 3) Recent case law indicates that renting compute cycles on PCs you don't own can make you a criminal.  For those people who operate corporate-owned computers -- think about it.  The last guy that got caught up in this was looking at jail time and hundreds of thousands of $$ in fines. Nuff said.  If people thought more about this, I don't think they would do it. 4:03:14 PM

[ZDNet Tech News] Raymond: Cheap PCs will starve Microsoft. Open-source guru Eric Raymond says Microsoft knows their packaged software business is doomed--and will hit rock bottom when PC prices fall below $350. Interesting idea.   MS needs to pump up the complexity of their software so they can require more expensive hardware :).  The rapid increase in capability means  software complexity pushes organization and developers to their limits.  We've also been trying to catch up with pent up demand for the hardward capabilities to deliver desired software functionality -- that race is coming to a close, methinks.  9:04:59 AM

[ZDNet Tech News] Raymond: Cheap PCs will starve Microsoft. Open-source guru Eric Raymond says Microsoft knows their packaged software business is doomed--and will hit rock bottom when PC prices fall below $350. Interesting idea.   MS needs to pump up the complexity of their software so they can require more expensive hardware :).  The rapid increase in capability means  software complexity pushes organization and developers to their limits.  We've also been trying to catch up with pent up demand for the hardward capabilities to deliver desired software functionality -- that race is coming to a close, methinks. 9:04:58 AM

[CNET News.com] Will techs gain from auditor scrutiny?. Tech services companies stand to benefit from post-Enron skepticism about the practice of using the same company to handle auditing and consulting jobs.  Wonder if this article will give old SCNT a boost.   The scandle hasn't, so far.   8:26:49 AM

[ZDNet Tech News] Mundie slams Liberty, open source. Speaking at the WCIT 2002, Microsoft's chief technical officer Craig Mundie says public license advocates is that they don't understand the need to commercialize. 6:53:27 AM

[ZDNet Tech News] Mundie slams Liberty, open source. Speaking at the WCIT 2002, Microsoft's chief technical officer Craig Mundie says public license advocates is that they don't understand the need to commercialize. 6:53:26 AM

[CNET News.com] Senate group to consider copy controls. A Senate committee plans to hold hearings on a controversial draft bill that would require computer and device makers to install a government-approved anti-copying technology. Imagine what this would do to the PC industry -- hey folks, all that stuff you love to do with you computer? yeah, you can't do that any more...  Or at least you can only do part of it, and it's gonna be a big pain in the ass to do it now.   It's the cost of progress. 6:10:03 AM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog] NYT.  The P in PC is for photos. >>>That system won't last long in the digital age, however. Once you've bought the equipment, digital photography is free — there is no cost for film or developing — so people snap far more shots than they did with film cameras. Even Michael Jordan's shoe boxes wouldn't hold them all.<<< Sharing photos is still too hard.  I can send photos via e-mail or post a couple to the Web, but I can't easily share whole albums with friends and family.  What I want is a desktop content management system that lets me organize my photos into albums using a browser interface.  I then would like to share these albums with friends and family using P2P.  That way, my father could subscribe to albums I create.  P2P would provide him with ongoing updates of my albums as I put in new pictures and an easy to use browser interface to view them in.  Too much data and underdeveloped tools for managing it. 6:06:43 AM