There are quite a few indications that the hopes for an industry backed, ad-supported music exchange were – at the least – too early. Maybe it’s a scam, maybe it is just a test-balloon, but in a world of iTunes…
Maybe, maybe: there are signs on the horizon that the content industry will finally come to grips with the harsh reality that their old models just do not work anymore the way they used to: enter Qtrax, a free, ad-supported…
For years I have been playing around with all kinds of computer based TV and multi-media solutions and toys: Windows MCE in its various editions from 2004 to Vista, early versions of MythTV and proprietary stuff. Until now none of…
This is so brain-dead, it is actually quite funny: In a move to make sure that he will be seen – once again – as a brave contrarian, John Dvorak thinks that Oracle paid Sun to kill MySQL. After reading…
Dare wrote an interesting piece on why RESTful service are much better off without an interface definition language. He is especially picking up on teve Vinoski’s IDLs vs. Human Documentation post, which emphasizes human readable documentation over IDLs. I am…
This makes total sense – and finally Sun gets a real database. I can think of at least 10 different major software products from Sun that would benefits enomously from switching from their respective current database platform to a single…
A nasty experience, that I would like everybody to avoid if you can: A few months ago, my bank (NetBank) was acquired by a – by then to me – unknown bank called ING Direct. Having gone through this cycle…
I recently ran across this most excellent site on the acoustical crimes of the ‘content mafia community’: http://www.turnmeup.org/ You will find here a lot of infomation on why louder is not better (contrary to popular belief) and what has already…
Eve was kind enough to link to my earlier article on our CardSpace Deep Dive. In that post she mentions our whiteboard notes, that I took at picture of, after all: Cards based on X.509 authentication are almost working ……
Hubert and Marc have been working on a very interesting subject: using RESTful service for identity. Please take a quick look at Hubert’s blog – he is working on a series of articles on this subject. tag: Identity, REST