- Privacy questions blah blah blah RFID blah blah blah blah retail blah blah blah blah blah activists.
- if Cuban is going to Van Halen concerts, then he's alright by me.
- Feedburner is on a roll, they just announced a deal with Cnet. How about letting me in on your last round valuation?
- Semantics in action. Here's a review of the various review sites available online.
- Ed takes a look at enterprise software investment opportunities. I agree with everything that he wrote, and would add that if you really believe XML is the core lingua franca between apps then look for opportunities to pre-process XML. Of course, if Cisco has it's way they'll pre-process XML in their routers.
- Vonage is getting sued by SIPphone for bundling their service with Linksys routers. The thing is that the routers are hardwired to only work with Vonage. Hope this isn't a trend, I'd be mighty pissed if I bought a new router and found that it was configured like this.
- A USB TV tuner small enough to fit in your pocket. Cool, it turns your laptop into a television. I'm gonna get one.
- Schwartz thinks his tour of Wall St. was a success. He skips over one issue that every major enterprise datacenter is facing, thermal load. Attention gear makers, you guys have to figure out how to generate less heat, it's a big problem.
- Five digital disruptions. It's a good list, go read it... actually, it's 5+2 disruptions.
- there's a full blown war of words erupting between bloggers and journalists, it's actually kind of fun to watch. I wish I debated as well as some of these bloggers do.
- Bloglines has a bunch of new API's out, already getting traction. FeedDemon (my brand of choice) already has a beta with support for the new features.
- Tesco is taking RFID out to all their stores in time for Christmas, but not at the item level.
- Also on RFID is this article about UPS' efforts to implement RFID technology. Lot's of good info, worth the read.
- AT&T is lowering VoIP pricing, let's see if Vonage follows. via TechDirt
- mobile phones as computers. I'm not buying this for the following reasons 1) the processing power is still limited, and the more processing power they build in the worse the heat problem becomes, 2) crappy displays, it will be solved eventually, maybe with OLEDs, but they still suck today, 3) bandwidth constrained, ironically, 4) specialized programming interfaces and user design limit appeal to developers.
- I saw a commercial last night for a promotion for Goodyear tires. Buy 4 and get a $50 savings bond. Brilliant, I thought to myself. Why? Because a $50 EE savings bond costs them $25.
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