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Niall Kennedy on Attention.xml

Niall KennedyAttention.xmlis an open standard to track attention metadata such as what you readand what you would like to learn more about. So far there has been alot of talk around the idea and what it could mean for synchronization,resource discovery, and social networking. Technorati and Steve Gillmor have talked...

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Blog posts 2005-01-18

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Anatomy of a storage overhaul: Facebook's photo system

Facebook's photo storage system holds 850 million photos and costs a lot of dough. Niall Kennedy has a nice overview of what Facebook is doing to minimize its storage costs.  Facebook's system, dubbed Haystack, is custom built but relies on content delivery networks and NetApp. Facebook is...

Tags: Facebook, Photograph, Storage System, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Podcaster done for now

Apple has revoked Podcaster developer Alex Sokirynsky's ability to issue ad hoc licenses for his killer iPhone app. Niall Kennedy claims over 1,300 people received provisioned licenses before Apple clipped his wings. That amounts to about $13,000 in revenue if each person donated the requested $10. Two...

Tags: Advertisement, Apple Inc., Podcaster, Ad Hoc Distribution, Podcasts, Internet, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Interview: Alex Sokirynsky developer of Podcaster

Last night I interviewed Alex Sokirynsky developer of Podcaster on the PowerPage Podcast (he joins in at around the 16:15 mark). It's an interesting listen and I encourage you to check out his excellent app before Apple decides to shut him down. Sokirynsky's Podcaster app was denied entry into the...

Tags: Developer, Distribution, Sokirynsky, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Is Facebook a PaaS contender?

Nate Westheimer's observation about Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon set me thinking. Should Facebook's F8 platform be considered a contender in the platform-as-a-service wars? Since my perspective is firmly on PaaS in the business world rather than as a consumer play, Facebook isn't really...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, PaaS, App Engine, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-11

Gadget or Widget? It's the progammable Web

Jeff Huber, senior vice president of engineering at Google, gave a brief presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit on what he called the programmable Web, referring mostly to gadgets. "What RSS did for content, gadgets are doing for applications," he said. Huber's talk followed Niall Kennedy's...

Tags: Web, Gadget, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Valleywag latest example of cutting Creative Commons corners

Flickr makes it so easy to find photos, doesn't it? And if you're blogging for a commercial outlet like this one, or, say, Valleywag, it even makes it easy to find photos licensed for commercial use.Yesterday, Valleywag disregarded that when it copied and republished a noncommercially licensed Dan Farber...

Tags: Social networking, Licenses, Copyright, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Ray Ozzie on Adobe and software as a service

Knowledge@Wharton just published an interview with Ray Ozzie in which he talks about Microsoft, software as a service, and a little bit on Adobe: In the docs and spreadsheets realm, I believe there are certain uses of spreadsheets in particular, where the sharing model [enabled by] using...

Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, WFP/E

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Noncommercial means noncommercial -- whatever that means

Niall Kennedy has this lengthy account of his successful efforts to have one of his Creative Commons licensed Flickr photos licensed for noncommercial use removed from Microsofts Team RSS Blog. Rather than send a cease and desist, Niall decided to make his point with a bit of a flourish....

Tags: Niall, Creative Commons, image, Licenses, Copyright, Blogging

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Microsoft, Developers, Designers and Bill Gates

I was lucky enough to be a part of the group that went to Microsoft yesterday to talk about everything from the Designer/Developer workflow to their new XNA initiative and it capped off with a Q&A session with Bill Gates himself. From Back Left: Mike Arrington, Evan Williams, Tim Harris,...

Tags: WPF/E, Expression Studio, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Devigner Workflow, Design, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-14

Mondorian: A Google code review tool

Niall Kennedy has a great post about a tool used by Google developers to manage code reviews -- Mondorian. Guido van Rossum has spent nearly 25% of his time at Google working on the project that was unveiled at a Tech Talk on Google campus.Mondorian isnt open source...

Tags: Open Source, Google Tech Talks, Mondorian, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-01

What's next for personalized home pages

Niall Kennedy offers an overview on personalized home pages, which have always been a leading indicator of how deeply engaged users become with portals. It speaks to the "stickiness factor." Over the last ten years, My Yahoo has led the charge but few others have garnered much traction. Most users...

Tags: portal

Blog posts 2006-09-05

Windows Live in a state of paralysis? Surely not...

Windows Live in a state of paralysis? Surely not...Just plain stupidI fail to see how M$ will profit from SOA/SAAS, as the OS is no longer relevant. But the BROWSER will be - and with M$ STILL avoiding the CSS standards with their IE7, is their any wonder as to...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., paralysis, operating system, blog, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Windows Live in a state of paralysis? Surely not...

Niall Kennedy, the RSS guy at Microsoft (since April 2006 anyway), has announced he's leaving Microsoft. One passage in particular from his blog post caught my attention: "Windows Live is under some heavy change, reorganization, pullback, and general paralysis and unfortunately my ability to perform,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-08-08

BloggerCon: Standards matters

Niall Kennedy led a BloggerCon discussion on standards for users, which he described as follows on his site: In the online world we rely on a few standards to make life easy for users. The W3C activity around HTML provides a common base for implementors and authors. We still have...

Tags: standards

Blog posts 2006-06-23

A Cure for the Summertime Blues

First Dave Winer highlights the one sentence in this blog that actually seemed to sound positive. You know, the angry old man, etc. Then a spate of crap from the trolls highlighted by one Paul Montgomery, a Down Under journalist his word who slimes all US journalists on his way...

Tags: Attention, Doc

Blog posts 2006-05-27

Google Press Day 2006 highlights

Today Google showed the press and the world some new products that they have been working on. It was Press Day at Google and was nicely covered by Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped.There were four announcements made -- three of them involving brand new products and the fourth is...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-05-10

Change of face at Facebook

Facebook, the site that Rolling Stone magazine applauds for making college “cruising for tale easier than ever”, is suiting up. While its extension into the corporate market may be designed to support its wish for a $2 billion buyer, it may lead to a loss of “cred” with its student...

Tags: Facebook

Blog posts 2006-05-08

Just what was Google thinking?

I've really struggled with what to write about the claim made by Marissa Mayer, vice president for search products at Google, that it is anticompetitive of Microsoft to set MSN as the default search engine in their own Internet Explorer browser. The subject has, first of all, been ground into...

Tags: Google Inc., search engine

Blog posts 2006-05-02

Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7

Microsoft's new hire, Niall Kennedy formally of Technorati, wrote in his blog today that Live.com will be the default homepage for Vista and IE7: "Live.com is the new default home page for users of the Internet Explorer 7 and the Windows ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live

Blog posts 2006-04-11