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- Professional audio advice for podcasters (rookies and vets)
- Earlier this year, Dan Bricklin called me up to say that he had attended a BoomersTV party in Boston and that he took the opportunity to interview John Osborne, a Boston area-based video and audio production professional who has been doing on-location recording for reality shows and documentaries...
- Tags: Dan Bricklin, microphone
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Now Johnny CAN program, says Behlendorf
- I had a chance to chat to Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf late last week. Now CTO of CollabNet, Behlendorf these days is in the business of helping companies co-ordinate their software development. But I was surprised and pleased to find the extent to which that increasingly means welcoming...
- Tags: Brian Behlendorf, CollabNet Inc., Dan Bricklin, Excel Macros, mashup, Microsoft Excel, Phil Wainewright, spreadsheet, Web, Web service
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
- Podcast interview of PC industry icon Dan Bricklin
- Podcast interview of PC industry icon Dan BricklinMP3s linksUsually ZDNet's lins to podcasts have a glitch, as in http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/zd.pod/http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/z/e/200601/itmatters_bricklin_010706.mp3But the link in the blog text is correct.
- Tags: Dan Bricklin, PC, PC industry, podcast
- Discussion threads 2006-01-07
- Podcast interview of PC industry icon Dan Bricklin
- A lot of people don't realize that Dan Bricklin should be a household name in the PC business. Back in 1978, he and Bob Frankston came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet. Until then, spreadsheets were done on paper. The numbers in the boxes were...
- Tags: Dan Bricklin, David Berlind, PC, podcast, wikiCalc
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- Geeks brave Boston's cold for Cambridge meet-n-greet
- I dove down to the CambridgeSide Galleria last night to check out a eat-meet-geek-greet organized by Scripting News' publisher Dave Winer and got a chance to meet some new people like Philip Greenspun (pictured on the right in a discussion with Dave Winer while Dan Bricklin [center] records the discussion...
- Tags: Dan Bricklin, Edirol R1, Philip Greenspun
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- Bricklin on DVD: Good software copyright primer for enterprises
- Normally, when PC-industry pioneer Dan Bricklin comes out with a new product, you can download it or get it on a CD. Not this time. Instead of publishing some new innovative software (as we're so accustomed to seeing him do), he has published a video of himself discussing...
- Tags: DVD, Dan Bricklin
- Blog posts 2005-05-12
- Dan Bricklin to the rescue
- Dan Bricklin has been a hero to me for some time. Now, if you're trying to get open source into your enterprise, he can be a hero to you, too.Bricklin is producing a DVD,"Copyright, Open Source, and Why a Lawyer is a Developer's Friend." It should be out in April,...
- Tags: Dan Bricklin
- Blog posts 2005-02-15
- Dan Bricklin ponders technology evolution and innovation
- I joined the Gillmor Gang forthis week's edition with featured guest Dan Bricklin, one of the creators of VisiCalc and other innovative software. During the show, Dan gives his views on where innovation is happening today and what's in store for the future as technology evolves. Listen at IT...
- Tags: Dan Bricklin
- Blog posts 2005-02-04
- Ballmer spins "opportunity" to software association
- Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer was a guest speaker at a conference this morning for the members of the Massachusetts Software Council, a technology trade association in that state. In attendance there was Dan Bricklin (co-creator of VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet) who, in his blog, summarizes what Ballmer had to...
- Tags: Steven Ballmer
- Blog posts 2004-09-01
- Bicentennial software
- Dan Bricklin, author of VisiCalc on Software That Lasts 200 Years."The structure and culture of a typical prepackaged software company is not attuned to the long-term needs of society for software that is part of its infrastructure." Bricklin's Societal Infrastructure Software concept asserts that software should be thought of more like...
- Tags: software, Dan Bricklin
- Blog posts 2004-07-15
Additional Resources
- SocialText unveils new wiki spreadsheet
- SocialText just announced its latest addition to SocialText SocialCalc, a multi-user wiki-based spreadsheet. SocialText isn’t the first to deliver an online spreadsheet, but it is the first to integrate an online spreadsheet with a leading Wiki and allows linking between sheets. (Click here for our exclusive, SocialCalc screen gallery.) ...
- Tags: Socialtext, Spreadsheet, Permissioning, Google Sheet, Wiki, Productivity, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- The spreadsheet love affair
- The spreadsheet love affairThat's obviousbecuase it's not the "most elementary of tools", it's far, far more versatile then you want to give it credit for.SantayanaFor those who weren't around at the beginning of the personal computer era, it's worth remembering that it all began because a PC was cheap enough...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, robustness
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Dan Bricklin: From Visicalc to wikicalc
- In this Super Techies interview, software inventor Dan Bricklin shares with CNET News.com's Dan Farber his thoughts on software innovation past and present. Bricklin discusses how he dreamed up the first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc; developing handwriting applications for the tablet PC; and his current role as the inventor of wikicalc,...
- Tags: Software, VisiCalc, Spreadsheet, Bricklin, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Tablets, Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology
- Videos 2008-03-27
- How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3F
- How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3FThat's a better way of looking at it.Compared to yesterday's piece, this is a much more informed look at the supposed issue.I agree that changes that are made to a GPL code base should, in the spirit of the license all of them, be given back. Your use of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Expect OpenXML win for Microsoft at ISO
- It's the nature of the system, admits Andy Updegrove, legal advisor to the Linux Foundation. The format of Microsoft Office will likely become an official International Standards Organization standard at the end of this month.  (Picture by Dan Bricklin, taken at the Harvard Faculty Club...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., Andy Updegrove, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis
- At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world’s most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...
- Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- The Verizon FiOS installation: The key points
- As noted Friday, Verizon FiOS was installed in a package deal with telephone, Internet access and television service at my home. Here's a gallery right walking through the main parts of the installation process for folks that may be considering FiOS. Dan Bricklin had a detailed installation walk-through in 2005...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Verizon, Telecommunications, Microsoft, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Broadband
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- BuzzWord slowly rolling out beta invites
- BuzzWord slowly rolling out beta invitesBuzzword screencastI've produced an 8-minute screencast demo of Virtual Ubiquity's Buzzword. See my blog post: http://danbricklin.com/log/2007_04_12.htm#buzzwordThey seem to like it and mention it on their site in their blog.-Dan Bricklin
- Tags: Blogging, Buzzword
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Mashups: The next major new software development model?
- At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...
- Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time
- Last year we witnessed the rise of consumer mashups on the Web, with hundreds of individual mashup-based Web applications being released in 2006 alone. I covered this phenomenon in detail in my year-end mashup wrap-up, but now this innovation in software development is gearing up to move inside the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Mashups, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Governance, Collaboration, Convergence, Right To Remix, Network Effects, Products, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Web services, Ajax, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, mashup
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
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