- PCWorld compiled a bunch of material on where the candidates stand on technology. I don't get the sense that Bush or Kerry are technology wonks, but being so isn't a big determiner for me either way, that's why the President has a staff of people to formulate the positions. Plus, after the stock market meltdown, I don't think either candidate are going to cozy up to technology companies. Just leave stock options alone is what I have to say on the matter.
- consumers snub portable video. I wouldn't be too quick on this prediction... consumers snubbed PDAs when they first came out. One of the very important thing to consider when reading these predictions is that industry insiders often try to apply pre-existing applications to some new technology, rather than invent new uses that may have not existing before. I don't think people will watch full length motion pictures on portable video, but perhaps they will adopt mini-movies that are product placement vehicles, or video blogging or whatever. The point is, you have to think about what is possible, not just the reasons why it will fail.
- General Motors blogs? Actually they do, they just don't make it to easy to find them.
- VoIP roaming over cellular to Wifi. Now that's what I'm talkin bout.
- New edition of Carnival of the Capitalists is up.
- RFID + ERP = supply chain visibility. I like this blog a lot, they dig up a lot of topic specific material that I would not ordinarily find.
- Who uses voicemail anymore? Not me, in fact my direct dial office number won't even accept voice messages. Email is best or call my cell, but if you leave a voice message on my cell don't be surprised if I don't get back to you for a day or so.
- Middlespace.
- source code analysis. This is an area of development, really developer tools, that is overlooked. One of the big brains we have in Palo Alto came up with a cool idea for analyzing the code base of R/3, which is frickin huuuuge. He created a grid application that parceled out chunks of code to idle PC's on our campus network, very SETI-like.
re: "a day or so to return messages."
or ever.
Posted by: kay | Nov 02, 2004 at 09:18 AM
"or ever" would be another possibility.
Posted by: jeff | Nov 02, 2004 at 02:09 PM