Archive for July, 2005

A9 Developer Blog
Monday, July 25th, 2005

I am very happy to point people to the new A9 Developer Blog. We are launching this new blog to better involve the community in the work of A9. I will be posting frequently over there about OpenSearch and other topics of general interest regarding search. Other people on the team will [...]

On Web 2.0
Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Fridays are a good time to take a few minutes and step away from the details of day-to-day development and turn instead to the big picture. Fridays are unfortunately also bad days for posting long articles, so you may want to bookmark this and come back to it on Monday.
So what is Web 2.0? [...]

Shall We Play A Game?
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

I’m not much of a gamer. (Unless, of course, you ask M. — I’m sure she’d tell you that any bit is more than enough.) I’ll occasionally go through a phase in which I’ll pick up the current generation of consoles and buy the big hits. But my attention span is pretty [...]

No More MySpace For Me
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

As has been widely reported, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has acquired Intermix Media, Inc. for $580 million. Intermix Media is the company that controls MySpace, the popular social networking site. (Read the press release Fox buys MySpace reposted over at Boycott-RIAA.com.)
On one level, I offer my congratulations to Tom and the other guys [...]

A New Project, Part 19
Friday, July 15th, 2005

I will be out of town and offline for the next few days, but I wanted to give a quick update on the new project before I left.
I have some new heros in the technology world. They are the men and women that build rich browser-based client-side applications. First-rate examples include Gmail, the [...]