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- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Bookmarking for Small Enterprises
- In my recent review of the enterprise bookmarking and tagging systems it seemed there was a glaring, underserved niche in the market just waiting for a smart vendor to address. The niche was the small enterprise, say 50 to 500 users, who have many of the same security requirements of...
- Tags: IBM Lotus SameTime, Tagging, Enterprise, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- 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
- Under the Radar: del.icio.us for the enterprise
- At the Under the Radar event showcasing Office 2.0 (Work 2.0), two companies demoed enterprise social bookmarking and tagging services. Cogenz bills itself as del.icio.us for the enterprise, targeting companies with 1,500 to 2,000 employees with a desperate need to collaborate, according to company co-founder Niall Cook. The on demand...
- Tags: Directory services, tagging, additional user, Del.icio.us, radar
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- The artificial nature of national borders
- A recent article that popped up on Digg on a mildly unrelated topic (essentially, it discusses fears of a Nafta superhighway stretching from Canada into Mexico) got me thinking about a subject that, at least nominally, affects IT workers. Why do we as humans restrict to the level we do...
- Tags: Economic Policy, General, Outsourcing
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Bill Gates: "People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then"
- At a recent junket up in Redmond, Bill Gates told the audience of invited bloggers that DRM has "huge problems" and that people should "people should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then," (putting this in context, he said this is response to a question posed...
- Tags: digital-rights management, Bill Gates, CD, Microsoft, DRM
- Blog posts 2006-12-16
- 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
- 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
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