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Freitag, 1. März 2002

Willkommen im März des Jahres.

die redaktion dankt fr. claudia müller herzlichst für die kreation und zurverfügungstellung auf höchst elektronischem wege solcherlei herzleinskeiten!

die redaktion dankt fr. claudia müller herzlichst für die kreation und zurverfügungstellung auf höchst elektronischem wege solcherlei herzleinskeiten!

Dem Herrn Rinner wird dieser erste Märzentag in wohl ewiger Erinnerung bleiben. Ich kann dazu nur überaus herzlich gratulieren und wünsche zum einen alles erhältlich Gute und zum anderen (auch weiterhin) grosse Mengen Spass, Liebe und Geld.

die redaktion dankt fr. claudia müller herzlichst für die kreation und zurverfügungstellung auf höchst elektronischem wege solcherlei herzleinskeiten!

Der gestrige Last Thursday wäre einer gewesen, den ~~man~~ ich auf keinen Fall hätte versäumen sollen — mir bleibt die Hoffnung auf baldige Reviews: "PHP hat sich in den letzten Jahren von der Personal Homepage Programming Language zu einer universellen Entwicklungsumgebung entwickelt, von vielen geliebt wegen ihrer Flexibilität und Produktivität, von anderen gemieden. Manfred Wuits programmiert damit schon sehr lange [...]" — und durchaus Grandioses, wie etwa das System hinter www.yumyum.cc und film.at ...

2002-03-01-misc

Mark Lemmons erklärt, warum Six Degrees nicht nur Rauch, sondern durchaus auch solchen generierendes Feuer zu bieten hat:

"Having looked at both [Tinderbox and MindModel] [...], I initially saw Six Degrees in the ink blots, but having looked deeper I found common ground in terms of ideas, but no real product similarity. [...] [I]t's true - if you just look at the screen shots Six Degrees looks like, well, yet another window in your Explorer/Finder. But Six Degrees is not just another window on your desktop, and all this hype started at MacWorld when people could actually see Six Degrees in action. [...] It does, automatically, build a wonderful database packed full of relationships that you can leverage and navigate to save time, be more productive, and make sure you have the right information at your fingertips. It does this immediately upon installation, and looks back as far as your email takes it."

Of course, relationships (a.k.a. links) aren't only the thing that make the web not-quite-uncool, a visible and traversable link structure is what makes computer displays leap beyond your ordinary sheet of paper (and no, that's not meant as an attack on sheets of paper, they're rather useful, too).

Nowadays that I have a vast amount of information (a whole slew of internal company communication, project documentation, notes, todo lists, events — and last but not least this very site) stored in a variety of VanillaSpaces (Wikis like Vanilla make creating information "objects"/snips and actually linking them pure bliss and way more enjoyable than keeping your A HREF handy), the one thing that I am sorely missing in the otherwise so soothing picture is — my eMail communication.

(I don't use word processors any more [except to print the occasional customer's .doc attachment] — and since K, spreadsheets have lost quite a bit of the appeal they once had for quick what-if analyses).

One option would be to make Vanilla an eMail client (eMails actually map rather nicely to snips with snip attachments), but I'm not really fond of both a. the static HTML page as an interface to the millions of mails I need to manage — that's one area (of many) where high interaction bandwidth clients (well, good old Desktop Applications) are totally needed — and b. the idea of having to clutter the utter simplicty of Vanilla with sophisticated link ranking algorithms, which would be definitely needed to make a space equivalent in size to my mail box (with several hundred list mails coming in a day) even remotely usable.

But: As Six Degrees will (supposedly) be scriptable with my oh-so-loved XML-RPC, I envision a happy future having finally overcome that last obstacle to Link Heaven. Time will tell, and I'll tell you.

Now, will it work with The Bat? ;-)

As a sidenote, Tinderbox I still haven't tried (and there's absolutely no excuse), but I've heard word that it actually might need quite a bit of time to get used to.

And thanks, Creo, for the cool calendar ;-)

2002-03-01-6dNews

In unserer Serie "Sneak Previews auf Inkredibles" heute K4:

"k4 -- implemented from scratch -- is faster, better and smaller.

"kdb folded into k.
twice as many datatypes.
singleton select,insert,delete,update 40 times as fast.
big database operations twice as fast."

coming soon ...

Arthur Whitney today on [create K-L]. Und später noch:

"k4 is just a handy mnemonic
since it is twice as small as k2."

2002-03-01-k4SneakPrev

Hannes Stiebitzhofer: "But are weblogs really a technology [...]? Don't think so. The point is that people figured out a way to use the web as an efficient tool to communicate and/or distribute ideas, thoughts, rants and knowledge. [...] Technology followed the needs of people in this case." — Good point. Weblog "technology" is a layer so thin on the existing infrastructure (global networks, telcos, TCP/IP, HTTP servers and clients), it's like the icing on the cake.

2002-03-01-logTechQ

funzel 8304 days AGO
Chris: benutzt du K ? fuer was ? du sagtes spreadsheets ?

funzel 8304 days AGO
zu McKoi gab es auf henso eine diskussion in den kommentare, das war nicht im weblog.

traumwind 8304 days AGO
Hi Chris!
bist ja ganz schön redeselig auf einmal ;)

Frage: was ist mit dem jab.overloader.at? Besteht Interesse, den wieder zu aktivieren? Überhaupt Interesse an Jabber?

David Ness 8304 days AGO
Well, I've taken the Six Degrees on-line demo and I still don't get it. As far as I can see it looks like a less-sophisticated program than the long-lost Ecco, and substantially less interesting than Zoot. The categorization of EMail by subject-line, essentially the only categorization discussed in the demo, won't get far (IMO).

I'd even `pick on' the calendar. While it has quite an elegant look, it functions poorly as a calendar (perhaps this will be a characteristic of the product as well). I don't find it useful to `picture' the month as two-week segments. And I pretty well know the numbers of the days without much help from the calendar. And is the page of `how-to-use' the calendar a `joke'? I don't normally need instructions on how to open a `book' (and if I couldn't already open the book, how could I get to the instructions anyway?)

And don't hold your breath waiting for EMail clients other than Outlook. SixDegrees is scheduled for delivery in July and the first broadening of the base to other clients is due in October or November at the earliest.

Looks good, but doesn't work well seems to be the common theme to me. But time will tell. With luck I'll get enough time this weekend to finish my review and publish it.

funzel 8304 days AGO
Jabber steht auf meiner Agenda auch noch ganz oben... aber man muesste mehr zeit haben und mehr multitaksing koennen.

David: I don't get the Six Degrees hype either.

gavin 8304 days AGO
Tinderbox and Six Degrees are about making "networks" more "knowable". Of course they can receive data from all over the place. So it's interesting that these apps hoard all their valuable bits on a single box. Stuck on a simple desktop, probably hidden behind a firewall, your new knowledge resides. Sure you can publish a static snapshot to a web server somewhere--big deal.

Tinderbox/Six Degrees apps need to talk to other instances. Perhaps in the same organization, same physical network. Or not. At the very least let my office machine and my home machine sync up. Imagine the fun when you get an entire company's collection swapping info.

I think singular/monolithic "knowledge" tools are a thing of the past.

chris 8304 days AGO
Sicher bin ich noch an Jabber interessiert ;-) Für alle, die das interessiert — my JID is chl@jabber.at. Server betreibe ich vorerst selber keinen mehr.

traumwind 8303 days AGO
jabber.at, ist vorgemerkt!

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