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Sunday, January 27, 2002 |
 Here's Dave in Hotwired in 1995. Wow. This magazine could have been huge. It had everyone (online) in 1995 reading it. What an opportunity. What killed it? Too much multimedia. It was too funky for the technology. The colors sucked. The magazine was brash, fine. But on the Web the colors looked stupid.
10:36:25 PM 
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The powers of ten. Nice pictorial depiction of scale (thanks Steve).
6:14:09 PM
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Economist. Who's afraid of AOL Time Warner.
>>>At least AOL Time Warner is a more integrated outfit these days. With the fortnightly meetings that division heads now attend, a fragmented collection of businesses employing some 90,000 people has become a little more co-operative. But the choice of the charming and diplomatic Mr Parsons to succeed Mr Levin over the more abrasive Mr Pittman says a lot about the limits to such banging-together of heads. As Jeff Bewkes, head of HBO, the subscription-television channel responsible for such hits as “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City”, puts it: “You could say that we weren’t co-ordinating enough before. But we had very strong businesses, and they weren’t hobbled by over-centralised management.”<<<
1:15:18 PM
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Adam's cranking now with Radio 8 and adding new functionality (he has a public calendar). I think we share a similar vision: in the next three to five years it is going to be possible for an individual using a desktop publishing system to distribute a media rich Website to a million readers. Wow, a single PC user publishing to a cloud that facilitates the distribution of the site to a million people without costing a fortune. If done correctly, it could easily make a profit for that person with simple ads (even at the currently reduced CPM). Possible? Yes. Easy? Yes, the software coordinates with cloud and takes care of all the tough work. Subversive? Yes, totally. This is precisely what the big Co's with their control over media don't want to see. They want to restrict choice.
9:54:54 AM
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It would be great to see a project that utilized BEA's new Cajun serives framework with Radio on the deskop for a complete end-to-end solution. Java-based Web Services developed at the server level and Web apps that consume and inform them on the desktop. I think the vision is similar here. They are bootstrapping .Net and Java to hide the complexity of Web Services development and we have bootstrapped Internet Explorer to add Web Services support on the desktop in an environment people are familiar with. Nice. Patrick Logan concurs.
9:26:49 AM
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Good morning freedom fighters against the establishment's lock-down of the Internet!
9:19:47 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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