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- Nick Carr's enterprise software fantasy land
- In a post titled, Michael Krigsman doesn't understand enterprise software, Nick Carr brings forth a series of nonsense arguments unsupported by the reality of how enterprise software is developed, purchased, used, and maintained. To begin, Nick makes the point: ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman lays in to...
- Tags: Nick Carr, User Interface, SAP AG, Nick, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Vaudeville
- This media showdown is getting really interesting. In no particular order, some comments about some of the players:Mike Arrington -- Why on Earth is he keeping Marshall Kirkpatrick in such a visible position. Nothing against the guy, he's a good writer and a competent reviewer, but he doesn't have a...
- Tags: Nick, Marshall Kirkpatrick
- Blog posts 2006-07-14
- Back in the USSR
- Nick Carr is truly the gift that keeps on giving. His latest can-opener concerns the alleged Google strategy of converting all reading interfaces to search and keyword (i.e. tagging) interfaces. Nick's genius (I think he is the leader in the post-dvorak world of meme-baiting) is to keep the bile churning...
- Tags: Nick, Don't Forget
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- irHelper 1.0 (Mac)
- irHelper is a bot which performs multiple tasks on an IRC network. It supports logging, auto kicking, operator passwords, and some other useful features to help keep your channel clean. If you don't like a guy/nick then just have the nick get kicked and banned every time he/she joins.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Nick, Nils Deppe Productions, irHelper, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Internet
- Software downloads 2006-04-30
- Hey Bulldog
- Ran into Sun's most authoratative blogger at OSBC this morning: Jim Grisanzio. Although some would point at Tim Bray (too partisan around Atom to sustain deserved linkcred from pre-Sun days) or Simon Phipps fragmented his Webmink brand into multiple feeds Jim's combination of OpenSolaris mission and personal naiviete about his...
- Tags: Nick, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Neutral gestures
- Nick Carr's latest post is a perfect example of a neutral gesture, one that sets up a transitional premise as the root of an alleged fundamental game-changer. As a gesture, it is still useful to those who view Nick's conservative optimist-baiting as treading water. In this case, Nick moves up...
- Tags: gesture, Nick
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Blogging as 'intellectual hydroplaning'?
- Nick Carr responded to my post about "Why blogging matters," characterizing blogging as mostly superficial and impressionistic, and suggesting that the blogoshere is a "fantasy community crowded with isolated egos pretending to connect." Here's a piece from Nick's post:The blogosphere's a seductive place - it's easy to get caught up...
- Tags: blogging, Nick, blogosphere
- Blog posts 2005-11-22
- IP Doesn't Matter?
- Nick Carr: Amateurs should, and will, be able to disseminate their creations, whether podcasts or songs or blogs or films, over the Internet. But those who hope to make a career of writing or talking or making music or shooting video should be able to protect their...
- Tags: amateur, Nick, business model
- Blog posts 2005-11-13
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- What would make you trust Microsoft?
- Flame on!Let me save a couple people the time of posting"Microsoft is the most evil thing on earth and should be destroyed" - Linux Geek, Ole Man, D.T, No More Microsoft Software ...."I trust Microsoft with my life" - Mike Cox, Loverock, ... "They are a company. I trust them...
- Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., extremist, open source, MHD
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Chrome 4.0 gets beta release
- Just an observation -Google now joins those other browsers that seem to "borrow" some would say nick features of Opera, yet Opera remains, with a small seemingly never growing following. The addition of speed will end soon, as gains like this always meet their limits. When all of the...
- Tags: Web browsers, Linux, Opera Software ASA, Chrome, Chrome 4.0, beta release, Web browser, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Vista dropped for Windows 7 midway through upgrades
- Several UK businesses that had begun to upgrade their systems to Microsoft's Vista OS are switching to Windows 7 before the installation is complete. Some businesses that are partway through upgrading to Windows Vista are asking to swap the OS for Windows 7, according to Microsoft. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, U.K., Windows 7. Microsoft, Vista, Nick Heath silicon.com
- News items 2009-10-22
- Nick Chase: A Detective Story for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- In Nick Chase: A Detective Story for iPhone, Nick Chase, a hard-boiled private investigator, is in need of a job. Lucky for him, one arrives from a man known only as the collector. Solve a variety of puzzles and find hidden clues to uncover the mystery behind the missing manuscript...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Big Fish Games, Mobile, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- Acorn co-founder talks early computers
- Acorn co-founder Andy Hopper told silicon.com that he believes the BBC Micro - with its easy to grasp Basic programming language - offered an experience that is missing today. Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of...
- Tags: Co-founder, British Broadcasting Corp., Computer, Andy Hopper, Productivity, BBC Micro, ARM, early computers, Nick Heath silicon.com
- News items 2009-10-12
- Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun
- Why?Because any future energy system , even if coal-powered, will make great use of IT, software and digital technologies. As will any affort to convert energy systems to solar, wind, tidal, etc. Even the digital and nano-tech being used in cars now and in future will come from...
- Tags: Low Tech, wind farm, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-10-04
- One climate modeller predicts a cooling trend, shortly
- Don't you just hate it when one of the scientists ....... that was promoting Global Warming finds that he was wrong. I wonder how many of the others are also wrong!I am tired of global warmingLet's just warm the earth to the max and be done with it. We're...
- Tags: Public relations, climate modeller, Harry Fuller
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- McSweeney's introduces iPhone app, literary nerds rejoice
- Today's news will make both tech nerds and literary nerds very happy. McSweeney's, a publishing house founded by writer/editor Dave Eggers, has released an iPhone app. If you're scratching your head trying to figure out why the name McSweeney's sounds familiar, or you just don't know...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, McSweeney, App, Small Chair, McSweeneys.net, Internet, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Adobe acquires Business Catalyst, GoodBarry
- Speed Dating for Content and Web VisitorsAdobe without Catalyst is like a one sided speed date. Web development cycles are too long and often get bogged down by IT departments who have been decimated by the three pronged fork of Budgets, too many new Vendor technologies and Business Model...
- Tags: Channel management, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Adobe ties web design to business results
- What about Business Catalyst?Am I the only seeing a tie between Adobe's recent purchase of Business Catalyst and Omniture?They are building a tool to keep web developers in the Adobe frame of mind. I think at least partially that is due to the increasing strength of Microsoft's competitive online...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Channel management, Adobe Systems Inc., Omniture Inc., Business Catalyst, Web design, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- The Death of Bunny Munro 1.0 (Mobile)
- The Death of Bunny Munro developed in conjunction with Canongate Books, contains full e-book application, unabridged audio book synchronized to the text, read by the author with an original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, produced and sound-directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and 11 videos of Cave...
- Tags: Mobile, Enhanced Editions, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-09-15
- Survival of the fit-most
- backblazeHi Phil,Great post as always. Extra kudos to the backblaze team for publishing this information. I was particularly impressed by the detail that conveyed a genuine desire to help the community in their blog post.-NickDoes it really take so many words to say . . .Does it really...
- Tags: Benefits, security, benefit, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
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