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Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2002

Preview: amzn-vista

Still lots of ideas that will be implemented as time permits (and probably it won't permit much in the days coming ;-).

Interessant schon einmal die offensichtliche Affinität von Käufern von Büchern zum Thema .NET, sich auch Apocalypse Now zuzulegen ...

2002-05-08-avSneak

Bill Seitz (in response to Jon Udell's article about Google's supposedly skewed bias): "It would be great if Senators would write something worth linking to." — Yes.

2002-05-08-seitzSays

BREAKING NEWS: REBOL/IOS FÜR WEBBIES IN DER KATEGORIE TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT NOMINIERT! — Gut so!

2002-05-08-rebolWebbies

Microsoft kauft [create Navision] um 1.4 Milliarden Euro (zum Vergleich: der Umsatz des Unternehmens betrug im Geschäftsjahr 2000/2001 rund 200 Millionen Euro). Nervös macht das vor allem SAP — auch wenn existierende Kunden kaum den Sprung wagen werden, bei Klein- und Mittelbetrieben wird es für SAP zunehmend schwieriger werden, Fuss zu fassen — vor allem, da mir immer noch kein wirklich überzeugendes SAP-Produkt für KMUs bekannt wäre.

Wieviel Sinn die Diversifikation Microsofts in serviceintensive Produktsparten macht sei dahingestellt, verfügbare Geldmengen hat die Firma jedenfalls genug für Dutzende Akquisitionen dieses Kalibers. Zudem: Der amerikanische KMU-Bereich wird von [create Great Plains] hervorragend abgedeckt, Navision hat den Grossteil seiner Kunden in Europa — und nachdem gerade der Unternehmenssoftwaremarkt von enormer Trägheit gekennzeichnet ist, gibt es praktisch nur den Weg der Akquisition, um in kurzer Zeit massive Marktanteile zu gewinnen.

2002-05-08-naviMs

Mountain View, CA - Google is now offering a premium search service to subscribers willing to pay $9.95 per month. The service called "Find Anything" allows users to not only find information on the Internet, but also in the real world as well.

One of the most touching success stories of the new service has been Kyle Ferguson who had long since given up hope. Kyle who was adopted when he just 3 weeks old has been searching for his mother for 27 years. "I just typed in 'mom' and it came up with two entries. One was a Thai restaurant but the other was my biological mother!"

www.bbspot.com/News/2002/05/google.html [ Ø SWHACK • ]

2002-05-08-findAnything

"... and then me and Lee inhaled crack!!"

2002-05-08-crack

Bill Gates: "At Microsoft, when a customer called us to order some software, whoever answered the phone was the "shipping department." They'd run to the back of the office, copy a disk, put it in the mail, and then go back to their desk and write more code."

2002-05-08-shipDept

Mark Bernstein: "I'm hoping to learn about weblogs from an alife simulator I'm building. In the simulated world, we have 600 little artificial writers (I call them weblets) with 600 artificial weblogs. If traffic is the currency of the Web, each of the weblets wants to get rich. Some have big blogrolls (so lots of people will think well of them). Some have lots of daily links (so they can reward their friends quickly). Some hoard traffic, some spread it around. We'll see who wins." [ Ø TRAUMWIND • ]

2002-05-08-artificialBlog

alex_s 8260 days AGO
SweHeheet, I was eyeing this application, but I did not realize that the interfaces were there to allow it to be done (correction, I didn't even consider parsing the html, even more impressive). Nice. Excellent.

Another one that I've been considering recently is a graph of the interrelations between Daypop top40 links, and the bloggers that linked to them. There are RSS feeds for both the top40, AND any query that you would like to do (namely the link-to queries for the referrers.

Back to Amazon Vista, I am sure that one of the ideas which you say could be implemented is the association of pictures with the links, in popups, or better yet right above the captions. (The edges would eminate from the center of the picture) I guess that one could zoom out on the pictures a bit to allow a lot of them to be displayed next to each other. For popup hints, you can see the simple implementation in my version of the google browser, which will be released soon.

Another suggestion it to increase the speed of the application is to cache the results the way that Martin did with the Google Browser php. (Later experimentation shows that you might do this already) This would allow you to expand to a radius of 2 instead of 1, which is something that is really necessary in order to make the applet user friendly. Otherwise the process of expanding each node by hand is too tedious.

What else... Great job! The only problem is that I was thinking that this was one of the applications which could have had actual sponsorship. With some cash flow we could pump these babies out full speed. Then again, I guess that given the oppertunity, the fun factor of producing an application like this is just to great to wait for the funding. It will however be necessary for longer term progects, untill then it's "As time permits".

Anyway, Thanks, and congradulations,

--Alex

chris 8260 days AGO
The images are indeed on my idea list. Result caching is (of course) already done (otherwise things would crawl). Honestly, I doubt that Amazon will come waggling with big checks, but I'll certainly send them your way should they choose to do so ;-)

How is your GoogleBrowser nouveau coming along? Will it be generic enough to allow other applications as well (as creating one specialized application for each case certainly doesn't make any sense)?

BTW, the Vista source is now finally packaged.

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