Analysis Microsoft's "Me Too" Strategy: Can the Tortoise Beat the Hare? Microsoft has lifted the lid this week on a number of products that compete to various degrees with popular Google services. While Google fans and blogosphere cynics have derided the Microsoft offers as "me too" knock-offs, at first look Microsoft 411 and Live Workspace look really nice. Virtual Earth 6.0 also has a "newly open" SDK and the… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Web 2.0 Summit 2007 Web 2.0 Summit Video For those of you who couldn't pay $4000 to get into Web 2.0 Summit - or didn't want to - the organizers have started to release videos of the main sessions on blip.tv. Below is the Mark Zuckerberg session (the Mary Meeker one is also online). Some quick thoughts on Web 2.0 Summit this year from my experience: similar to last year, business focus… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Java: A Retrospective It was 1995 and C++ was the language of choice for building large-scale software systems. C++ was a powerful object-oriented programming language, the successor of widely used procedural language called C. But not only was C++ powerful, it was also quite complicated. Seasoned programmers enjoyed the intricacies and the possibilities, but newbies… Alex Iskold View comments
web Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? On Friday Radar Networks is announcing a new Semantic Web application called Twine. Founder Nova Spivack showed me a demo today of the new app, which he described as a "knowledge networking" application. It has aspects of social networking, wikis, blogging, knowledge management systems - but its defining feature is that it's built with… Richard MacManus View comments
web Moleskine Project Hopes to Unearth Hidden Art Talents Though the name was only officially registered in the mid-90s, perhaps the most famous brand of notebooks in the world is Moleskine, who have been endorsed by writers like Neil Gaiman and Bruce Chatwin, and whose makers famously brag were used by Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Earnest Hemingway, and Henri Matisse. Whether those art and literary… Josh Catone View comments