Scobleizer: The tech industry in slow period…
John C. Welch
· 2 years ago
Um...I'm using two Xserves for almost nothing mac-specific, but they plug into Active Directory so easily that it made integrating Unix features onto our network dead simple?
I can show you some screenshots if you like, but it's not terribly exciting, unless you're a network geek, and get excited by Cacti and Nagios.
Goebbels
· 2 years ago
"When a blogger code of conduct is at the top of Techmeme with hundreds of comments you know something is wrong."
How is this surprising or problematic? It's completely predictable and reflective of TechMeme's usual content, blogging masturbation.
gwhiz
· 2 years ago
Lack of news? Roll your own! That's what I'm off doing. ~ Gerald, Tulsa
(and John... fine use of those XServes bud! AFP548's to you!)
anona
· 2 years ago
"What has you excited about tech? Is it Vista?"
Yeah, I'm delirious about Vista. I'm excited about how innovative it is and how I'm do things I never thought I could do any other way. It runs beatifully on my TabletPC, another item I'm super excited about that's catching on fire out there. I love my brown Zune and once I get me a big hunking Media Center I might just die and go to heaven.
And I'm really really stoked about all the things Ozzie has done so far. I can't wait for his next innovation. I wish he'd blog about it so I can get my daily dose. The immediate problem for me now is, I don't know whether to watch the last episode of "24" or my SharePoint directory.
Help me.
Wreck
· 2 years ago
Tech-related?
I'm trying to figure out the best approach for me and my family to move to Alaska.
I've been in IT now for almost 10 years and I'm ready to escape the cars, too many people, and high taxes.
Alaska has low property tax, no state tax, no sales tax, and everone in the family gets an annual slice of the permanent fund, on average about 1,500 per person in the family per year. There's my property tax paid for.
Any thoughts anyone can throw at me on my idea.
I'm looking at Anchorage, Juneau, and the Fairbanks area.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Wreck: you should talk with Don Kiely. He lives in Fairbanks and is a geek, er, talented developer (he spoke at several of our conferences in the 1990s and always did a great job). He likes living up there very much and is always inviting people to come up and see the land. http://www.sqljunkies.com/weblog/donkiely/ is his blog.
Chris
· 2 years ago
I'm running folding@home and my PS3 has 8 work units done.
On PS3 the world improves you.
Chris
· 2 years ago
I'm also anxiously awaiting the PS3 secondlife thing. It looks so much better than the original 2nd life.
marksdk
· 2 years ago
I'm toying around with StickyWindows, which you got a link to earlier on...
It's changing the way I use OS X radically (instead of all that expose-action, I see my windows swoosh to the edge of the screen automatically), so it's getting me all excited.
Or is it because it's darn pink allover?
francine hardaway
· 2 years ago
The most interesting things I see in Tech are not around information technology. They are either environmental technology, like magnifying the force of windmills to generate energy, or biodiesel; or they are in medical devices, such as remote monitoring of patients with chronic conditions (using Cell phones). There are some really fascinating applications out there if you go a little beyond pure IT.
For Wreck: Our friend Pat Borjon moved back to Alaska and has been very happy there. Good job, great wife, 1.5 kids...borjonx@gmail.com and tell him I sent you.
David
· 2 years ago
Google Mini. This device is causing a revolution, and so far it has had a very quiet start.
Eamil me for details Scoble!
Other great tech: Command and Conquer 3 released recently.
paul
· 2 years ago
PodCamp NYC was attended by hundreds of people who are NOT involved in the Tech industry.
Something is happening here.....
KMT
· 2 years ago
I don't know how much it's improving the "world", but I'm looking at switching our family line of PCs to Apple so that my kids can more easily create their own videos and slide shows.
- KMT
Alejandro
· 2 years ago
Open Source, all the way. Linux seems to be approaching idiot-proof status. Much like Firefox woke up MS in the browser market, desktop Linux could mean radically better Operating systems from both Apple and MS.
Chris
· 2 years ago
I'm trying to build a "online community center, with a strong emphasis on the arts." Yay for new startups!
Wreck
· 2 years ago
I use Windows, Linux, Unix, and Macs between home and work.
I'm tired of Windows security issues. I dislike having to worry about viruses and spyware.
I'm tired of being a Unix guy at work, but I love it when I get to work with the several hundered Macs my employer has.
I'm currently using Linux at home, but despite the fact I'm a savvy Linux user and have been since about '99, I spend far too much time dickering with wireless setups, getting my digital camera to work, etc., in Linux.
For the sake of time with my family, I'm seriously considering just dropping the money on a new MacBook for myself and giving my kid my Linux notebook with Edubuntu on it for the sake of the learning and games.
It's time I really got on the ease-of-use bandwagon.
Scoble, didn't you recently buy a Mac for yourself? What do you think? Do you find yourself using it more than Windows? What about waiting for the new Macs and Leopard?
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
I'm using my Mac 100% of the time now. I love it. There are still a few things that are better in Windows (window resizing, for one). Parallels rocks. Absolutely rocks.
The Zero Boss
· 2 years ago
In the day job, I'm developing an application in Windows Forms that will help large ships protect the environment. Which is about all I can say about it until we launch the beta. It may not be as sexy as Web 2.0, but it's sure as hell important (and entertaining) work.
Wreck
· 2 years ago
Should I buy now or wait for Leopard and the new models or if I buy now, just getting 2GB of RAM. I really like the black MacBook. I really cannot afford the MacBook pro at this time.
Mitch Wagner
· 2 years ago
I'm pretty much done with my Windows-to-Mac transition. I'm a Mac user now - except my company is on Windows, and they issued me a Windows laptop, which I need for Lotus Notes. So I use Remote Desktop to access Windows. But only for Notes.
I'm also wrapping up an article on Things To Do In Second Life, because I'm tired of iggerant people saying there's nothing to do in SL.
look for the unexpected use of a flash. Not Flash, but a flash.
michael
· 2 years ago
I am anxiously awaiting my Slicehost Slice. They have a wait list (pretty popular) and I can't wait to play around on my new Slice. Ubuntu it will be (I think) running a new rails app.
Trevor F. Smith
· 2 years ago
I am excited about browser based virtual worlds, not just from the project that I work on but from all sorts of groups like Pelican Crossing (Blink3D) and Three Rings (Whirled).
The spaces range from light weight, quick loading 3D views which merge with 2D web content in webish ways (think flash widgets on Flickr, not full page horrors) to more immersive worlds which just happen to arrive in your browser.
TDavid
· 2 years ago
@11 - interesting you mention the Google Mini. We've been looking at buying one of those for one of our websites.
Miles
· 2 years ago
"What are you doing with tech to improve the world?"
I may not be changing the world but I participate in Yahoo Answers (http://www.answers.yahoo.com), I usually spend my time in the relationships trying to contribute to someone else's situation and give them my input so they can come up with a good solution. I also spend a lot of time in the Fitness and health sections trying to help people who are sincere about losing weight and weight training.
Other than that I am not doing much online except reading RSS feeds and some light browsing for my new dSLR (I am currently on dialup due to living very far into the boonies in Northern Ontario).
Keep up the great work Mr. Scoble. I know the recent weeks have been tough on you publicly with the situation that happened (I always make sure you read your feeds), I hope you are able to get back to the Scoble of old without all the internet drama.
Regards.
Rex
· 2 years ago
I'm on an Xubuntu kick. I have my old old laptop next to me with it; needs a battery, some more memory and some sort of wireless card/USB -- my file server, which was on my little send up video - new monitor (free!), and a new HD.
Both running Linux, both just sitting there for me to tinker on when I get time.
Rex
Phil Butler
· 2 years ago
Amen! No hits no runs and no men left on base. Where is the long ball hitter when you need em?
Bob
· 2 years ago
I'm with Chris on the Folding@Home, though I don't have a PS3. Dual core processors are certainly tearing things up as well. I've converted three of my folding boxes to dual core, very nice. Most of my home boxes run Ubuntu for folding, with Macs doing my day-to-day stuff.
The rest of my tech world is regular world since I'm not a techie, with basic powerpoint presentations for first time homebuyers and housing counselors, basic web maintenance stuff, yada yada yada. Barely have time to blog, as is obvious if you visit it!
Karoli
· 2 years ago
This is the coolest thing I've seen this week. If you already blogged about it, forgive me, but the video got me really, really interested. :)
Slow? Wotchatalkingaboutwillis? Maybe in the Web 2.0 widgets world...
Wii's still tons o' fun, Xbox Elite yo (new dashboard yay), and every update of XBMC continues to amaze, newfound love for Tablet in Vista era, Zune is actually halfway decent (well as cool as it can be), Final Cut 6 is shaping up to take on Avid wholesale, can't wait, but Vegas still my first love. And NewTek's innovative SPEEDEdit is awweeesomeeee. Mobile 6 finally making Pocket PC worth something. Adobe never ever stops, CS3 proving that. WD Passport's are just too darned cool. Archos, Archos, oh how I love ye, 704. Panasonic's godsend AJ-HPX2000 P2 HD gets 24P, DV might finally overtake film, well sorta. And particleIllusion and the new wondertouch emitters, heaven alive. Tired of my Palm tho, it lost the Zen.
And then factor in all the developments in Gesture and Touch-Sensitive tech, Micro Fuel Cells, NAND-Flash drives, Perpendicular Storage Devices, Nanoparticle Batteries, Body Area Networks...and that's just what I can think of offa toppa my head.
Ludvig A. Norin
· 2 years ago
Business Software, ERP/CRM solutions especially, gets me excited. Traditionally viewed as "boring", but this kind of software has actually dealt with the most interesting software development issues all the time - database issues ranging from performance/scalability, database techniques such as relational or object techniques, user interface issues for massive data entry and statistics/report presentation and so on. Moreover, the industry have typically been early adoptors of the very latest techniques - albeit within the development/research departments. It's a long road producing an upgrade of an ERP system - it's not exactly the customer's favourite pasttime to upgrade the software that runs their businesses. "To deliver is a feature" is a statement that goes double for business software (or "BS" as some call it...), and it's more challenging than in other industries. Right now I'm especially excited about telephony and small devices in this context. Tell me, when did you last see a fully fledged ERP system running on a Windows Mobile or Symbian device?
If you'll pardon the self-promo, Gormaticon's next-generation operating system (code-named Sephirot) is quite interesting.
We're currently accepting sign-ups for Private Beta. Would be great to get you on board, Robert.
Ryan
· 2 years ago
There's lots going on if you look around. Despite the hype, virtual worlds have interesting implications. User interfaces are changing. The iPhone promises to bring multi-touch to the mainstream, while we all wait on Perceptive Pixel to become affordable. Communications is becoming more and more pervasive and immersive simultaneously - from telepresence type technologies to spatial audio in online worlds such as Second Life. Technology change is on the horizon, its just not coming from the IT department this time around.
Brad
· 2 years ago
I'm doing a startup (animoto.com) with friends from around the country and we're using smartsheet.com to manage our individual to-do lists and group task lists so we're always on the same page. It's become an invaluable communication tool, just like google for domains for free corporate email, skype for free ip calling and freeconference.com for free group conference calls.
macbeach
· 2 years ago
@4: HAHAHA !!! How true.
What excites me is exactly that it is a low period. I hope we have another goldarn tech recession before it's all over.
There need to be times of consolidation, retrenchment, what-have-you in technology. the job loss is not desirable, but you can make the case that hiring people without a clear idea of what they are supposed to be doing is the real cause of the problem.
I want a cheap, almost disposable computing device that has its own storage, but really serves more as a dumb terminal than as a personal computer. I want my files online, backed up, available wherever I go, and all for as close to free as can be made possible by unobtrusive advertising click monitoring and so on.
Very few of these new gadgets play well with that scenario though. Everyone wants their own format, their own drivers, their own brand new type of plug between the device and your computer. You can almost hear the vendors in their design meeting saying "those dumb-sh*t users will never figure out that we are locking them into our money-making machine for the next ten years or so. Yeehaa weren't we smart to get an MBA instead of going into engineering!".
I like innovation that plays within existing standards and frameworks as much as possible. Impress me with what is REALLY unique about your product: more pixels, better sound, lower cost, and sure, if you want to target fashiionistas, go right ahead. But don't ask me to sign up to fund your retirement program, I have my own to worry about.
I know people in their mid 40s who have retirement accounts with the same $500 they opened them with, but they have every new gadget that comes out and lust after 75 inch TV screens that they can place a mere 4 feet from their couch. Where would I be today if my parents had been like that?
Technology for its own sake will not only be the downfall of the technologies themselves but much more than that. We should be thankful that it comes up for air from time to time, and hopeful that we don't all get the bend in the process.
Wreck
· 2 years ago
@37,
Too true about gadget lust. I suffer from it as well, but I almost never buy.
I'm really hoping to get a new Mac this year since I'm tired of playing around with Linux so much. I just want my computers to work out of the box. The only thing I want to worry about is the desktop background and what browser I choose to install.
Brad Baldwin
· 2 years ago
I recently recorded Niroshan (Niro) Ramachandran as part of a corporate a podcast series for Lumera based in Seattle (www.lumera.com). Niro is smart as hell and was perhaps the most articulate scientist I've ever listened to. He's researching how individual proteins interact with each other on the nano level. Proteomics. Today's technology tools are just barely starting to make a difference to compute outcome. Bioscience research is going to be a huge contributor to quality of life in the next century. This is today's sputnik. Except this time we're not racing against the another country, but instead working and exchanging ideas as a world community of technologists, researchers and practitioners to beat the clock against cancer, aids and other diseases. Makes me want to start my entire tech career all over again. Not a Twitter post...but damn cool stuff if you ask me.
Funny how the A list always ask for the out of the ordinary. Yet never seems to hype the out of the ordinary or support it. Someone tries to think out the box and many of you look down upon us. Yea I've tried something fun a time or two recently. This week as a matter of fact. Yet not one of you found it interesting or geeky enough I guess. And you wonder why we get stuck with the same old boring BS day in and day out. Rolls eyes and goes to crawl back in a hole.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Iggy: what was it that you did?
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Even worse. I just tried to get to your blog and couldn't -- it times out.
So, don't complain to me about doing something cool and not having anyone talk about it.
Kfir Pravda
· 2 years ago
The reason that everyone are talking about this code (including me, I have to admit, at http://pravdam.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/tim-ore...) is because we are self feeders - bloggers write about it, and then the whole thing is going out of proportion with tech.meme.
Anti-Gormaticon, who got scamm
· 2 years ago
@Gormaticon — April 10, 2007 @ 6:17 am
Stop trying to scam anymore people from their money, Marc Fiszman, you have duped a lot of people with their rubbish so called' Teleport' Cards 3 years ago and now trying to come up with this? You told me it is basically Linux but you have to pay a lot of money for it! So please stop spamming every forums with your garbage.
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I can show you some screenshots if you like, but it's not terribly exciting, unless you're a network geek, and get excited by Cacti and Nagios.
How is this surprising or problematic? It's completely predictable and reflective of TechMeme's usual content, blogging masturbation.
~ Gerald, Tulsa
(and John... fine use of those XServes bud! AFP548's to you!)
Yeah, I'm delirious about Vista.
I'm excited about how innovative it is and how I'm do things I never thought I could do any other way. It runs beatifully on my TabletPC, another item I'm super excited about that's catching on fire out there. I love my brown Zune and once I get me a big hunking Media Center I might just die and go to heaven.
And I'm really really stoked about all the things Ozzie has done so far. I can't wait for his next innovation. I wish he'd blog about it so I can get my daily dose. The immediate problem for me now is, I don't know whether to watch the last episode of "24" or my SharePoint directory.
Help me.
I'm trying to figure out the best approach for me and my family to move to Alaska.
I've been in IT now for almost 10 years and I'm ready to escape the cars, too many people, and high taxes.
Alaska has low property tax, no state tax, no sales tax, and everone in the family gets an annual slice of the permanent fund, on average about 1,500 per person in the family per year. There's my property tax paid for.
Any thoughts anyone can throw at me on my idea.
I'm looking at Anchorage, Juneau, and the Fairbanks area.
On PS3 the world improves you.
It's changing the way I use OS X radically (instead of all that expose-action, I see my windows swoosh to the edge of the screen automatically), so it's getting me all excited.
Or is it because it's darn pink allover?
For Wreck: Our friend Pat Borjon moved back to Alaska and has been very happy there. Good job, great wife, 1.5 kids...borjonx@gmail.com and tell him I sent you.
Eamil me for details Scoble!
Other great tech: Command and Conquer 3 released recently.
Something is happening here.....
- KMT
I'm tired of Windows security issues. I dislike having to worry about viruses and spyware.
I'm tired of being a Unix guy at work, but I love it when I get to work with the several hundered Macs my employer has.
I'm currently using Linux at home, but despite the fact I'm a savvy Linux user and have been since about '99, I spend far too much time dickering with wireless setups, getting my digital camera to work, etc., in Linux.
For the sake of time with my family, I'm seriously considering just dropping the money on a new MacBook for myself and giving my kid my Linux notebook with Edubuntu on it for the sake of the learning and games.
It's time I really got on the ease-of-use bandwagon.
Scoble, didn't you recently buy a Mac for yourself? What do you think? Do you find yourself using it more than Windows? What about waiting for the new Macs and Leopard?
I'm also wrapping up an article on Things To Do In Second Life, because I'm tired of iggerant people saying there's nothing to do in SL.
http://urltea.com/441
look for the unexpected use of a flash. Not Flash, but a flash.
The spaces range from light weight, quick loading 3D views which merge with 2D web content in webish ways (think flash widgets on Flickr, not full page horrors) to more immersive worlds which just happen to arrive in your browser.
I may not be changing the world but I participate in Yahoo Answers (http://www.answers.yahoo.com), I usually spend my time in the relationships trying to contribute to someone else's situation and give them my input so they can come up with a good solution. I also spend a lot of time in the Fitness and health sections trying to help people who are sincere about losing weight and weight training.
Other than that I am not doing much online except reading RSS feeds and some light browsing for my new dSLR (I am currently on dialup due to living very far into the boonies in Northern Ontario).
Keep up the great work Mr. Scoble. I know the recent weeks have been tough on you publicly with the situation that happened (I always make sure you read your feeds), I hope you are able to get back to the Scoble of old without all the internet drama.
Regards.
Both running Linux, both just sitting there for me to tinker on when I get time.
Rex
The rest of my tech world is regular world since I'm not a techie, with basic powerpoint presentations for first time homebuyers and housing counselors, basic web maintenance stuff, yada yada yada. Barely have time to blog, as is obvious if you visit it!
Microsoft's Hallucinations
Wii's still tons o' fun, Xbox Elite yo (new dashboard yay), and every update of XBMC continues to amaze, newfound love for Tablet in Vista era, Zune is actually halfway decent (well as cool as it can be), Final Cut 6 is shaping up to take on Avid wholesale, can't wait, but Vegas still my first love. And NewTek's innovative SPEEDEdit is awweeesomeeee. Mobile 6 finally making Pocket PC worth something. Adobe never ever stops, CS3 proving that. WD Passport's are just too darned cool. Archos, Archos, oh how I love ye, 704. Panasonic's godsend AJ-HPX2000 P2 HD gets 24P, DV might finally overtake film, well sorta. And particleIllusion and the new wondertouch emitters, heaven alive. Tired of my Palm tho, it lost the Zen.
And then factor in all the developments in Gesture and Touch-Sensitive tech, Micro Fuel Cells, NAND-Flash drives, Perpendicular Storage Devices, Nanoparticle Batteries, Body Area Networks...and that's just what I can think of offa toppa my head.
I summed it up in my introduction post on my blog: http://tertiaryopinions.com/2007/03/09/hello-wo...
::Ludvig A.
Its goodbye Windows for me
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Winston Churchill"
Sums up the "Microsoft Spirit" - doesn't it?
Jay, from Bangalore
http://ideaburger.blogspot.com
We're currently accepting sign-ups for Private Beta. Would be great to get you on board, Robert.
What excites me is exactly that it is a low period. I hope we have another goldarn tech recession before it's all over.
There need to be times of consolidation, retrenchment, what-have-you in technology. the job loss is not desirable, but you can make the case that hiring people without a clear idea of what they are supposed to be doing is the real cause of the problem.
I want a cheap, almost disposable computing device that has its own storage, but really serves more as a dumb terminal than as a personal computer. I want my files online, backed up, available wherever I go, and all for as close to free as can be made possible by unobtrusive advertising click monitoring and so on.
Very few of these new gadgets play well with that scenario though. Everyone wants their own format, their own drivers, their own brand new type of plug between the device and your computer. You can almost hear the vendors in their design meeting saying "those dumb-sh*t users will never figure out that we are locking them into our money-making machine for the next ten years or so. Yeehaa weren't we smart to get an MBA instead of going into engineering!".
I like innovation that plays within existing standards and frameworks as much as possible. Impress me with what is REALLY unique about your product: more pixels, better sound, lower cost, and sure, if you want to target fashiionistas, go right ahead. But don't ask me to sign up to fund your retirement program, I have my own to worry about.
I know people in their mid 40s who have retirement accounts with the same $500 they opened them with, but they have every new gadget that comes out and lust after 75 inch TV screens that they can place a mere 4 feet from their couch. Where would I be today if my parents had been like that?
Technology for its own sake will not only be the downfall of the technologies themselves but much more than that. We should be thankful that it comes up for air from time to time, and hopeful that we don't all get the bend in the process.
Too true about gadget lust. I suffer from it as well, but I almost never buy.
I'm really hoping to get a new Mac this year since I'm tired of playing around with Linux so much. I just want my computers to work out of the box. The only thing I want to worry about is the desktop background and what browser I choose to install.
http://www.hip.harvard.edu/research/protein_mic...
So, don't complain to me about doing something cool and not having anyone talk about it.
Stop trying to scam anymore people from their money, Marc Fiszman, you have duped a lot of people with their rubbish so called' Teleport' Cards 3 years ago and now trying to come up with this? You told me it is basically Linux but you have to pay a lot of money for it! So please stop spamming every forums with your garbage.