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This article speaks for itself.
Google will unveil its own low-price personal computer or other device that connects to the Internet.
It was only a matter of time.
Related item:
Update (05/01/2006): Google renounce low-margin PC speculations
Many still refuse to discover the power of feeds
LASHDOT informs me of an interesting study which suggests that only 4% of Internet users knowingly use RSS. This implies that a very large number of potential subscribers are yet to be won. Now is the time to make content feeds available.
The item ends with a brief dicussion about the name appeal of RSS. I would also add another factor: inconsistent terminlogy e.g. feeds, XML, syndication and subscription.
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. I have special inclination for using the term RSS because it is my name’s initials!
“Hurry! Hurry! Lotsa’ work to do, guys!”
I have found the following old page, from which I would like to borrow a snippet.
He’s (Bill Gates) a ferocious workaholic, who regularly puts in 80-hour weeks, and expects his employees to do the same. And although he’s something of a visionary, he’s not a particularly reliable one; he never meets product deadlines, and the goods he so tirelessly promotes are mostly vaporware. God, like Gates, owes his power and success less to the quality of his product than to his ruthless business sense. He’s created a near monopoly by outmuscling the competition. You might not like this universe, just as you might not like Microsoft’s clunky programs; but pragmatically speaking, where else do you have to go?
Related item: Roots of Authority
NN runs an article on that well-understood impact of excessive information digestion. This often leads to addiction, which can be treated by clinics these days.
Will all this instantly accessible information make us much smarter, or simply more stressed? When can we break to think, absorb and ponder all this data?
“People are already struggling and feeling like they need to keep up with the variety of information sources they already have,” said David Greenfield, a psychologist who wrote “Virtual Addiction.” “There are upper limits to how much we can manage.”
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Milestone reached: Firefox to be pre-installed rather than downloaded
ARLIER this week I mentioned Blake Ross; The context: the demise of the Windows brand name. Apart from this thought-inspiring quote from Blake, I now come to discover that Hewlett-Packard began bundling Netscape. More recently it was confirmed that Dell pre-install Firefox in the UK.
Next milstone: OpenOffice bundling with all desktops and laptops. This would enable users to work on documents and spreadsheets ‘out of the box’.
An common inner conflict
HERE seems to be a certain apathy among girls towards computer science. This does not necessarily extend to all fields that are engineering-related. My older sister studied computer science, but decided to leave a year early due to lack of interest and passion. She was very much capable of graduating and was a top student in her class. Yet, she had no incentive to staying up all night or becoming obsessed with technology, which was associated with what she perceived as “nerds”. She now works on a Masters degree in management.
These thoughts were stirred up by an article that appeared in the
Boston Globe only yesterday.
Women shunning a field once seen as welcoming
MEDFORD — As a young high school teacher in 1982, Diane Souvaine leapt into graduate school for computer science having taken only one class in the subject.
Wallpaper from Houghi (click image above
to enlarge; non-lossy PNG version)
Below is the summary of an article on user interface revolution. It has motivated me to post links to relevant items of mine.
Will we be stuck with flat rectangles on our desktop forever or will we finally live in a 3D desktop? This article discusses some alternatives and proposes a framework in which future interface designs may be evaluated.
On 3-D desktops, interaction, and display:
A few related ‘leftovers’:
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