Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 01:00:32 GMT

Fast Company: From June 1996; Ten Commandments for Success on the Net

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:16 GMT

Sprezzatura takes it all off for the New Year.

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 22:31:37 GMT

Another new sample is from Emmanuel Décarie: Sending a file with tcp.sendMail.

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:00:54 GMT

Eric Kidd's asynchronous XML-RPC-in-C is working.

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:00:43 GMT

New word: revelationary. Think about it.

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 02:00:28 GMT

Wireless Week briefly describes the server included in Red-M's Bluetooth solution.

It's not quite time, but let's get started early! I want to wish all of you a Very Happy New Year!

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:00:15 GMT

Another tool is my Things of Beauty channel. When I spot a news item that inspires me I route it to this channel. I knew it would come in handy!

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:00:22 GMT

Hey I just got an email from Eric Kidd saying that his open source XML-RPC-in-C stuff is starting to work. Yahoo!

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:00:22 GMT

Joel took pics of the snow in NY. Now I know why I'm bummed. I'm not there! Snow is so cool.

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:00:01 GMT

DDJ TechNetCast: The Semantic Web. Archived presentation in RealAudio and MP3. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee presents his vision for the future of the web - a "self-navigable space" of self-described, "machine-understandable" fragments of information in which documents convey meaning through XML markup.

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:00:39 GMT

Radio is the first Web server to do upstreaming, a necessary feature for servers running on users' desktops.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:00:26 GMT

New Manila macro: viewRssBox, available on on all UserLand-hosted Manila sites, and on all Frontier installations that update. I used the viewRssBox macro to put a news box on the XML-RPC home page.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:00:11 GMT

Syd Egan: SOAP for Visual Basic.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:00:38 GMT

USA Today: Net journalists allowed to cover Olympics. Internet organizations will be accredited at the 2002 Winter Games, despite being denied lucrative video rights to the Olympics. The IOC said Wednesday that it had agreed to accredit a limited number of Internet organizations for the games, so their journalists can ''produce some original text and content.''

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:00:02 GMT

DW: Lest I forget to give credit, the seed of the idea for Desktop Websites came from the Cobalt Qube. They showed that the browser is a great way to configure a local server. The difference is that the computers we program have screens and keyboards, so we can view and edit the database on the same machine.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:00:10 GMT

Sometimes a picture makes the difference. When I started the MUOTD project I also made a resolution to organize my document work using Radio's Bookmarks menu. Now before I close a window I think "Will I want to edit this again?" or "Is this part of some project?" If the answer to either question is yes, I bookmark it, and then drag-drop it into the category it belongs in, or create a category for it. It's made a major difference in my writing work. Note that some of the documents haven't been released yet, that's good -- less shooting from the hip, and hopefully the projects will make more sense when they're rolled out.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:00:14 GMT

WebReference has updated RSSViewerApplet. "First and foremost there is better compatibility with the RSS 0.91 version upgrade from 0.9."

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:00:14 GMT

Upside: The year for open source.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:00:17 GMT

Putting MP3 in Your Hot Z3. Forget jukeboxes and streaming subscription services, the next big thing is solving the fast mile problem by getting digital music into cars.... Watermarks end the year as they began, without anyone caring.... Internet radio takes a hit.... As Brad King spins the week in digital music.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 02:00:03 GMT

Jimmy Carter: Make This Natural Treasure a National Monument. "The reason the Alaskan coastal plain is home today to a pageant of wildlife is that there have been both Republican and Democratic presidents who cared about the environment."

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:00:22 GMT

XML Magazine: More than just Jabber. "Although Jabber was designed as an instant messaging system, its XML architecture enables it to do a whole lot more "

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:00:22 GMT

MailToTheFuture's XML-RPC interface. A Frontier script that uses this interface.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:00:43 GMT

Doubleclick tries to regain credibility. Doubleclick entered 2000 with plans for new products, new revenue, and new customers. Instead, the Internet advertising company focused on crisis management. A ruckus started when a privacy advocacy group accused Doubleclick of planning to give out anonymous data to an offline direct-mail house.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:00:33 GMT

Mary Jo Foley: Web services, few actually deliver. "Are the industry leaders onto a hot trend? Or are the emperors parading around without clothes?"

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:00:33 GMT

Stephan Somogyi: "OS X is not a revamped NeXT OS or even a seasoned Unix. It more closely resembles a computer-science Ph.D. project morphed into a commercial product spec."

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 18:00:16 GMT

Just for fun I added a SOAP box to this DaveNet piece. It'll update without me, the channel author, having to do anything.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:40:37 GMT

C/C++ User's Journal on SOAP.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:00:43 GMT

NYTimes: Invasion of the 'Blog': A Parallel Web of Personal Journals

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:00:26 GMT

A cult hero in the software world. Ray Ozzie wants to unlock once again the technology chains that bind you. The software hero who fashioned Lotus Notes now brings us peer-to-peer collaboration software. Mr. Ozzie is betting that Groove Networks will become as ubiquitous as email or the Web browser.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:00:34 GMT

Love-hate relationships with XML. Two sites which both embrace XML and criticize its flaws have appeared in the last few weeks: xmlsuck.com and xmlbastard.com.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:00:31 GMT

News.Com: New technology could help squelch digital music piracy. The plans are initially likely to affect removable or portable data storage, such as Zip drives or the Flash memory cards used in MP3 players. But the standards could ultimately serve as a way to keep consumers from copying copyrighted files directly onto their hard drives...

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:00:14 GMT

News.Com: Authors criticize Amazon's used book sales. In a letter earlier this month, the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild, whose board of directors includes Michael Crichton and Garrison Keillor, called on Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos to put a higher priority on selling new books.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:34:34 GMT

Frontier: How to make a macro legal in Manila.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 08:00:07 GMT

Free Links, Only $50 Apiece. Some online news sites have begun charging others to link to their articles. The Albuquerque Journal, for instance, charges $50 for the right. But legal experts say no U.S. law or court decision allows a website to successfully demand payment. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington.

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:23:24 GMT

It's all Netscape's fault. Tactics. In the three quarters prior to its 1995 IPO, Netscape generated just $43 million in revenue. Yet from its IPO to its pre-takeover peak four months later, the stock appreciated from $28 to $98, a 250 percent gain. Netscape turned the technology-investing world on its ear.

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:23:04 GMT

More Silliness Over Patents: NetZero sues Juno

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:48:37 GMT

New versions of Perl RDF tools RDF::Service and RDFStore. RDF::Service 0.4, part of the Wraf Perl RDF application framework, and RDFStore 0.31, a Perl API for RDF Storage, have been released.

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:48:37 GMT

XML Spy 3.5 beta 3 out. The third beta of the XML Spy 3.5 development environment for XML has been released, adding several new features to the recently-added support for XML Schema.

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:00:03 GMT

Heads-up, I'm working on new features for RSS that build on 0.91. Calling it 0.92. I am not doing this as part of a working group, or in collaboration with anyone else. I'm doing an app that requires more functionality than 0.91 provides. I think the enhancements will be useful for other developers. There's already been enough discussion, and a lot of wasted time. I just want to make software. We did RSS for a reason, and the reason didn't disappear. We need the functionality.

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:00:28 GMT

Linux 2.4 Wins 4th Place ... in Vaporware

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:00:20 GMT

VorteXML "converts existing, recurring structured text data into valid XML using any DTD on an ad hoc or automated, programming-free basis!"

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:00:14 GMT

Editor & Publisher: Online News Advice For 2001. Steve Outing. While I, too, am tempted to succumb to the desire to make predictions for the digital news industry in 2001, I'm going to take a slightly different approach. Rather than predictions, what follows are my recommendations about what the online news industry should be doing and focusing on next year.

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:00:14 GMT

Evhead: Pricing Matters. I've been thinking a lot about pricing lately, and the statement above is inline with my intuition (and experience) on the ever-tricky issue. It also brought up a lot of thoughts I've been having about pricing and assumptions that are often made about what does and doesn't work on the web...

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:00:13 GMT

Radio: "When accessing a server on the local machine, MSIE/Mac doesn't yield enough processor time to allow the server to do its processing. The net result is a glacial pace, when it should be lightning fast. The addition of a single system call to the loop that's waiting for a response from the server would probably cure the problem."

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 12:00:34 GMT

Laird Popkin, one of the designers of ICE, agrees that it's time for the search engines to coordinate with content management software.

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 19:00:04 GMT

Syndicate.It includes OPML in its list of syndication standards. Nice directory. Interesting.

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 19:00:04 GMT

News.Com: Napster updates software. "The software upgrade, dubbed 2.0 beta 8, offers a handful of new features, including a Boolean minus sign, which people can use to exclude certain items from their searches."

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 16:00:24 GMT

World: Djindjic Promises Serb Executives Say in Reforms. 15:38 ET - Reuters

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 16:00:23 GMT

Interactive Week: Peer Pressure. "I don't think Microsoft cares about 'providing leadership' so much as becoming a player over time," said Clay Shirky, partner at investment firm Accelerator Group, who has been monitoring P2P companies. "At a guess, Microsoft will buy whoever's good when the smoke starts clearing."

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 16:00:23 GMT

Content Magazine: Dumb and Dumber Ideas. Evan Schwartz. So, we have crawled through the Web's wreckage in search of turkeys--by which we mean e-commerce predictions that missed their mark by an embarrassing margin. We have identified four of the most misleading and ruinous predictions of the past several years.

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 15:00:07 GMT

Hard Drive Technology Protects Copyrighted Material

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 14:00:15 GMT

PocketSOAP is a "SOAP client COM component for the Windows family, originally targeted at PocketPC (hence the name)."

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 14:00:13 GMT

InfoWorld: Stats show backbone provider UUNet seems to be biggest spam haven. The Spamhaus Project isn't the only watchdog that believes UUNet customers are responsible for large volumes of spam. Statistics for abuse complaints logged at SpamCop.net have in recent months seen UUNet with 10 times more complaints than any other source.

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 11:00:23 GMT

Do you respect HTML?

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 11:00:11 GMT

Post Holiday Dot-Com Blowout Clearance Sale!. The holiday season is over. Is it time to go shopping for bargains?

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 04:00:02 GMT

The Red Eye: Droplets and Zaplets. Executable client applications, like those from Zaplet and Droplets, that can be dragged and dropped from a Web browser could be part of the X Internet revolution.

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 04:00:02 GMT

Realnetworks hasn't mastered revenue streaming. The economic slowdown and the dot-com bust bring Realnetworks to its knees. Can the company weather the storm until broadband hits?

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 20:00:01 GMT

Vintage computer ads. A lost art.

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 20:00:01 GMT

Earth at Night. Visible global warming?

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 19:00:38 GMT

World: Putin Promises to Work for Better Living Standards. 18:32 ET - Reuters

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:00:18 GMT

Salt Lake Tribune: Web Had Humble Beginnings. It is amazing to think today, with the World Wide Web now spanning some 7 million sites, that its creator could barely get his colleagues interested at first. Ten years later, Tim Berners-Lee has different worries: keeping the Web from growing out of control as commercial developers pile layer after layer of software on top of the Web's foundation.

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:00:18 GMT

Salt Lake Tribune: Web Inventor Envisions Next Wave of Innovations. Ten years after he created the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee is nurturing it into a gigantic brain, where databases get smarter and work together to solve problems. Berners-Lee terms it "the Semantic Web." To him, it's the second half of the information revolution.

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:00:18 GMT

NY Times: Will Bricks-and-Mortar Merchants Grow Complacent. It meant they had at least a little more time to construct their own Internet strategies. But now that the consumer e-commerce landscape looks like it has been struck by a neutron bomb, industry analysts say bricks-and-mortar merchants are breathing a bit too easily.

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 15:00:35 GMT

Business: Rivals want AOL to share messaging service users. 13:30 ET - Nando

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 15:00:05 GMT

Robert Scoble: "Merry Christmas to all three people who read this blog." Ditto!

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 15:00:05 GMT

Listening to an NPR interview with Wolfgang Puck. He's certainly a businessperson, a restauranteur, but he's also a cook and a teacher. It's generally assumed in the software business that you need a CEO who knows little about the product and users to run your company. I've always thought this was wrong. Software is more like a restaurant. Puck serves hamburgers at Spago in Orlando (kids like them). And macaroni and cheese. But it's Puck-style, not mass-produced, with fresh ingredients and a few weird spices.

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 15:00:05 GMT

Vintage computer ads.

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 12:00:16 GMT

Technology: E-Business - IPO market goes to the dogs. 10:48 ET - cnet

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 08:00:23 GMT

The Sock Puppet Tells His Story. Despite the recent demise of Pets.com, its spokesperson appears to be here to stay. This is one sock that won't get lost in the laundry. By Farhad Manjoo.

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 17:44:55 GMT

Dead man voted in Florida. BBC Dec 24 2000 4:01PM ET...

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 15:00:22 GMT

Shelia's new directory.

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 15:00:02 GMT

Useit.Com: The Web in 2001: Paying Customers. Offering free services on websites is not a sustainable business model, nor is advertising, which doesn't work on the Web. Most Internet companies are now pursuing an enterprise strategy to make money, but they'll soon begin turning to individual customers for revenue as well.

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 15:00:02 GMT

O'Reilly Network: The Case Against Micropayments. Clay Shirky. The very micro-ness of micropayments makes them confusing. At the very least, users will be persistently puzzled over the conflicting messages of "This is worth so much you have to decide whether to buy it or not" and "This is worth so little that it has virtually no cost to you."

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 13:00:04 GMT

Radio bug report. Open an outline stored locally. Bring it to the front. Choose Add Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu. Close the window. Choose the file in the menu. Error. The filename in the generated script is incorrect. On Windows the path delimiter is backslash, which must be escaped in string constants. (It was probably only tested on the Mac.)

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:00:19 GMT

NY Times editorial: The Dot-Com Bubble Bursts. "The current sense of despair in the dot-com universe may be as overdone as last year's euphoria. The Internet, after all, really is a transforming technology that has revolutionized the way we communicate."

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 09:00:23 GMT

If IBM Is Serious About Linux, What Do WE Want?

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:00:40 GMT

Entertainment: Victor Borge, Dead at 91, Combined Music, Comedy. 21:18 ET - Reuters

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:26:27 GMT

AP: Denmark Pianist Victor Borge Dies.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:00:21 GMT

Fortune: It Can Go Down To Zero. I said that everyone in the press had expected a crash; of course, we knew Net stocks could and should go down 70 percent or 80 percent. "But not 96 percent," he finished my sentence. I opened my mouth to deliver the next line, but he beat me to it. "It can go down to zero," he said.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:00:16 GMT

SF Chronicle: "Salon relies on advertising for 87 percent of its revenue. Half of its advertisers are dot-com companies, and that is a shrinking market, O'Donnell said."

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:00:28 GMT

MrShowbiz: It's Official: Madonna's Married.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:52:12 GMT

Freshmeat: Mojo Nation 0.934. Data sharing system with micropayments and reputation filtering.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:15 GMT

Music 2000. Call it the year of the dogs: Woof-woof. Still, there were 25 records worth listening to again and again.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:12 GMT

Word of the Day. capricious

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:12 GMT

Newsweek: ‘The Bernice Test'. I looked at three: 3Com's Audrey, the MSN Companion by Compaq and the Gateway Connected TouchPad With Instant AOL. They all aced the first part of the test. Pull them out of the box, plug ‘em in and you're on the Web. Unfortunately, none entirely clears the simplicity bar.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:12 GMT

ZDNN: Netdocs: Microsoft's .Net poster child? According to sources, Netdocs is a single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including e-mail, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:10 GMT

Jeffrey D. Ullman: Ordinary Skill in the Art. "We should search for ways to protect the true intellectual property of an innovation, rather than using questionable 'inventions' in the software area to protect it."

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:09 GMT

Microsoft throws more muscle into SOAP. Microsoft have released SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Beta 1, which integreates WSDL more thoroughly, and is also billed as a "fully Microsoft supported product."

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:09 GMT

An Extreme Year for New Stocks. The Year 2000 was a time of crazy contrasts for companies that tried their luck on the public market. Companies raised more money than ever before in initial stock offerings. But most are now trading well below their starting price. By Joanna Glasner.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:08 GMT

Washington Post: "The Internet is proving to be a difficult place to make a profit."

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:08 GMT

Susan Kitchens provides the kind of first-time user feedback that we need. "Radio displays the links as underscores. But I haven't yet figured out how to access the URLs." Yes, that's something we need to call out on the outliner page. To see the HTML behind the links choose the Format Text command in the HTML menu. It toggles.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:08 GMT

Confirmation came that I am speaking at O'Reilly's P2P conference about The Two-Way-Web on Wed, 2/14/01 at 1:15PM. Good time slot. One-half-hour. Thanks to the O'Reilly folks for letting me participate. I'm going to talk about what's hot in P2P and TTWW. I'll start a new site in a few days. It's time to get this stuff organized.

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:08 GMT

Teaser screen shot. It'll probably be under the Christmas Tree shortly after Christmas Day. (It's a Web app that runs on your desktop. You get the source code, of course.)

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:15:08 GMT

SlashDot: W3C Announces XHTML As Its Recommendation.