End of Support for Netscape web browsers – The Netscape Blog
That little logo with the asteroids symbolized the early web and now it has gone.
Let it be a lesson to us all; they launched a product called Communicator with high ambitions to completely take over the web. The result was that the web remained independent and Netscape slowly died.
R.I.P.
I was planning on keeping the OLPC for myself for six months. Now I read this…
My (daughter’s) OLPC laptop has arrived
I thought that my six year old wouldn’t be interested and therefore I’d get to play first. Looks like “move over old man day” is scheduled for the 26th of December not July.
Last year it took me a while to recover from Le Web 3. There was the blog war and I never got around to writing what I thought of it all. This year it’s taken a week.
In summary; Le Web 3 has become the best couple of days in the year for me. I loved last year but this year I actually felt comfortable and had a real ball.
There are still areas to improve;
Otherwise, all the organization was better. The speakers were fantastic, although I think that we can invite a politician back; maybe someone from the UK to talk about data privacy!
Special appreciation goes to:
– Scoble for chatting at 8am about his Kindle and being so nice. He’s far nicer in person than via his writing and videos.
– Starck for proving that you don’t need to know a language to speak it!
– Joi Ito for a fascinating talk that I’ve referred to seven times in the last week.
– Evan Williams for reteaching the importance of Zen in design without knowing it.
– JP Rangaswami for proving me wrong about BT.
– June Cohen for reminding me that it’s about the story not the technology. Interestingly, I signed up for LeWeb3 last year after seeing the TED Talks films. Everything is a circle!
Funeral for a mainframe – Boing Boing
The obvious question is…
“What is the oldest mainframe in active use out there?”
This site is on a 1and1 server somewhere. Then I see this…
kelblog : Un hébergeur à éviter absolument: 1and1.fr (in French!)
Look like I should start looking for a new home!
Add one more item to the list of things that we relearn every five years…
The secret of IT transformation: It’s all about the CEO stupid
The same thing was written about SAP installations, LAN installations, PC roll outs and moving to Windows (in about 92)!!!
This is news?
Saw this while surfing…
Strategy: Nokia jealous of Apple, wants cut of the action
What amazes me is that the Telcos have given their business away to the handset companies and they don’t seem to have realized.
If I understand what Apple has managed to do here it is probably the end of the mobile network operators. Apple gets the brand, Apple gets the client relationship (you need to activate the phone through iTunes), they get the options revenue (you buy music and applications through iTunes), they get a cut of the call revenue and the best of all (as far as they are concerned) they get the subsidy for the phone. What have the networks got out of this deal?
There is a chance that Apple could start giving phones away and living off the 30% of the call revenue. Where does that leave the network operators?
I always wondered about the total number of hit in a Google search. The Google Operating System Blog explains the process in more detail; Google Finds Less Search Results.
The surprise to me was here:
“When you perform a search, the results are often displayed with the information: Results 1 – 10 of about XXXX. Google’s calculation of the total number of search results is an estimate. We understand that a ballpark figure is valuable, and by providing an estimate rather than an exact account, we can return quality search results faster.”
I’ve seen business plans based on that estimate. That it is;
is shocking. Just proves that you should never assume.
Google’s new My Location feature apparently saved Scoble in London and now he’s counting on it in France while at LeWeb3.
One tip: Don’t use it indoors. Or at least if you do; don’t count on the results to save your life.
In my experience it works perfectly outside but the moment you get behind a window it starts putting you in the wrong place.
Leaving for Le Web 3 it one of a million posts about leaving for Paris.
It feels like I’m living in the center of the universe for a day. It’s rather odd sitting at my office desk reading all this stuff. I should be moving!!!
Last year, Adam wrote about his experiences at LeWeb3 (and tried to name this year LeWeb4!)…
I suspect that much of the reaction to Le Web 3 shows that the time has come for blogging and Web 2.0 conferences to start diversifying. One conference can no longer meet everyone’s requirements, and within the next few years we’re going to need to see a whole range of conferences in this area, from the very technical, to the very educational.
Le Web 3 was a brave, if faltering, step in that direction, and for that, Loïc and team deserve some praise. The really big question, though, is how well they take onboard the very valid criticisms made of the event and make sure Le Web 4 is clear and open in its intentions, and smoother in running when its time comes. I wish them well.
This all means that the question for Adam (and the others sitting on trains and planes) is very simple…
What are you expecting this year? Or, like me, are you buying blind on last years experience?
Finally, this is one of the posts that talked about a range of European conferences; has anything happened there or is Loïc dominating things?