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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Cold Fusion scales!
MySpace had 10% of the total of 102bn ad impressions in July according to Nielsen//NetRatings. And it runs on Cold Fusion
MySpace had 10% of the total of 102bn ad impressions in July according to Nielsen//NetRatings. And it runs on Cold Fusion
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The first PDA?
When I blogged about IBM's SHARK interface for entering text I recalled a device which I'd used around 1990. The Agenda had a "chording" interface for entering text whereby one pressed up to five keys (one for each finger) to generate a letter. I found this link to the Microwriter after seeing Jack Schofield mention the Agenda in passing in the Guardian last week. The "finger keys can be seen above the standard keyboard with one for the thumb at the left. It was tricky to use!
When I blogged about IBM's SHARK interface for entering text I recalled a device which I'd used around 1990. The Agenda had a "chording" interface for entering text whereby one pressed up to five keys (one for each finger) to generate a letter. I found this link to the Microwriter after seeing Jack Schofield mention the Agenda in passing in the Guardian last week. The "finger keys can be seen above the standard keyboard with one for the thumb at the left. It was tricky to use!
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Best keyboard-less text entry system yet?
IBM has developed a system that recognises words as a stylus is dragged across letters on an on-screen keyboard. IBM SHARK Shorthand could revolutionise the way that text is entered on PDAs and mobile 'phones.
IBM has developed a system that recognises words as a stylus is dragged across letters on an on-screen keyboard. IBM SHARK Shorthand could revolutionise the way that text is entered on PDAs and mobile 'phones.
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Silly name for a must-have security device?
Intelli7 produce a device that monitors the inside of the network rather than keeping threats outside (as a firewall does).
Intelli7 produce a device that monitors the inside of the network rather than keeping threats outside (as a firewall does).
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Monday, August 15, 2005
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Monday, August 08, 2005
War driving costs punter £500
An Ealing man became the first to be successfully prosecuted for stealing bandwidth last week. It's not clear what he was really trying to do....
An Ealing man became the first to be successfully prosecuted for stealing bandwidth last week. It's not clear what he was really trying to do....
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Friday, August 05, 2005
Developing using blogs
Economist.com is getting a redesign.
Here in the Solutions Delivery team, we have been developing it on both sides of the pond, and email is always clogged, constantly cc'ing people who don't need to be cc'd. So we thought we'd try a blog, it's been a really good way to raise issues and track them and also to note assumptions as we go along. It's all died down a bit now we have delivered some of it and has moved into cc's for bug tracking but it really was a clean way to manage and document progress and issues.... It would of course be a lot better if we could have used the cc system in blog mode however.
This is a call to action. How can we make the cc system better?
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Economist.com is getting a redesign.
Here in the Solutions Delivery team, we have been developing it on both sides of the pond, and email is always clogged, constantly cc'ing people who don't need to be cc'd. So we thought we'd try a blog, it's been a really good way to raise issues and track them and also to note assumptions as we go along. It's all died down a bit now we have delivered some of it and has moved into cc's for bug tracking but it really was a clean way to manage and document progress and issues.... It would of course be a lot better if we could have used the cc system in blog mode however.
This is a call to action. How can we make the cc system better?
Post your comments here.....
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I like FCKEditor, which is similar to the blogging interface on Blogger.com, I am sure whatever we do the the cc system we could incorporate something like that. To be honest, if you could buy blogger.com's software I think it would do great change control.
I'd like the cc interface to be skinnable so that every service could have it's own fields with required and optional interfaces. Something like an xsl style sheet that each team could get coded so we can really move forward in a flexible fashion.
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Game on
The Economist has a leader and special report on video gaming. Steve Johnson's Everyting Bad Is Good For You is mentioned - TCH of 3 June has a link to a speech given by Marjorie Scardino in which she quotes from the book.
The Economist has a leader and special report on video gaming. Steve Johnson's Everyting Bad Is Good For You is mentioned - TCH of 3 June has a link to a speech given by Marjorie Scardino in which she quotes from the book.
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