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Hey Bill, thanks but no thanks

Posted by admin on February 2nd, 2008

Mr Gates,
first, thanks for Vista. I am singularly unimpressed and should have known better. Which brings me to my much larger point.
Please stop trying to squash the Open Source Software movement with your economic clout. You produce software like the government produces corruption; there is a lot of it, it all looks [...]

Eye-Fi, with my little eye, a BUG

Posted by admin on January 13th, 2008

Pretty cool.The Eye-Fi card won the Last Gadget Standing competition at CES 2008. Wi-fi meet memory, memory meet wi-fi.
I’m still not sure what I might want to do with it, but I am sure I can think of something. Direct applications for real estate are a bit narrow. Sure, you can send your pics of [...]

they lost the battle, but will win the war

Posted by admin on December 31st, 2007

Netscrape vs Internet Exploder. That was how aficionado’s of their various browser’s disparagingly referred to their competitors product in the mid to late 90’s. It was a heady time, evidenced by the hugely successful IPO of Netscape Corporation in 1995.
I recall when I first moved to Silicon Valley, working for a semiconductor fabricator [...]

synch or swim

Posted by admin on December 17th, 2007

I start my commute nearly everyday asking myself the same question… why can’t I talk to my car and more importantly why can’t it talk to the internet for me?
Voice recognition has made huge strides. Cellular technology as well. And the internet is just there waiting. Yet the best I [...]

Congress will consider legislation shortly to create a national ‘Do Not Track’ registry. I just wanted to remind them, if this goes forward, to call Al Gore and remind him to turn off his internet, and be sure to shut down the dot servers on the way out the door.
Seriously.
As usual, when I start [...]

MLS agnostic, unless…

Posted by admin on October 12th, 2007

I have made my rounds at the conferences advocating MLS agnostic technology. I still do. I firmly believe that the future will see more and more tools, widgets and technologies developed that interface with MLS(s) but are not dependent on or tied to a particular MLS… they are MLS Agnostic. The [...]

RE Surface - imaging is king

Posted by admin on September 26th, 2007

Imaging IS king. There are plenty of audiophiles out there who will argue with me, and certainly humans have a remarkable reaction to coordinated sounds, and an even stronger reaction to smells (nothing can evoke powerful memories of a place and time quite like an odor).
At the end of the day, however, we are [...]

Why MAX? Good Dollars and Sense

Posted by admin on September 25th, 2007

Why MAX, or more precisely, WiMAX? Well, in brief, because WiFi seems to be dying out faster than the dodo, at least at the city level. In reality, while there has been a wave of bad news, there is positive news on some fronts according to CNET. But when the title of [...]