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Tuesday, 27 February 2007

Misunderstanding cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Innovators Dilemma

Don Dodge, in saying Microsoft Will not Fall into cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Innovators Dilemma, compares Google Apps for Your Domain to Office Live, but he misses Christensen's point on how successful businesses gets stuck making only incremental innovations.

The real technology disruption here is that Google Apps for Your Domain (and Google Docs, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 free version) use HTML as cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir native format, not Microsoft's crufty legacy format, nor cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 equally crufty XML data-dump. Writers who use Word every day, like David Weinberger and Teresa Nielsen-Hayden, get stuck trying to make it behave and judging by cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 comments on both those posts cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y aren't alone. When my friend Maf was working on Microsoft Office, he summed it up by saying "every time I tell someone I work on Word cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y tell me it's far too complicated, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n ask for 3 more features".

Most people use Word because it is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 default - cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y have to use it because ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365rs do too. They do not use its advanced features, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y just type stuff in. Fifteen years ago, I was a keen Word user, and spent hours working out how to do well-laid out tables in it, and carefully constructing style sheets so that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y behaved right. Nowadays I do those kinds of things with HTML and CSS, which are open technologies that anyone can implement and use.

HTML is now cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 default document format, and an easy wysiwyg editor for it is long overdue. GMail's automatic conversion of attachments to a hosted document with version control is just cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 kind of 'worse is better' disruption Christensen documented so well 10 years ago.

Oh, and by cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 way Don, Nintendo Wii is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 disruptive innovator in consoles too.


Technorati Tags: HTML, Innovators Dilemma, Word, writing

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Sunday, 18 February 2007

Missing cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 cage

When Rosie and I first came to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 bay area in 1992, we visited San Francisco Zoo. One of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 exhibits cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re were polar bears, and we watched one pace out a looping walk, his feet hitting cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 same spot each time through, one leg swinging out over cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 edge of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 moat on each circuit. He was completely accustomed to his cage.

Reading Ars Technica's commentary on Airport Extreme's IPv6 support reminded me of this. Apparently, if you use this device, your computers can route across cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 world again; people can connect to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m from anywhere, just as cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 internet was designed to behave. That's what cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 'inter' part of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 name is about.

That's right, if you enable password protected services that are off by default, like ssh and ftp, on your Mac, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 new Airport base stations actually route cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m, instead of requiring furcá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r buggering about with port mapping and explicit protocol translation through packet sniffing to get cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m to behave as cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y were designed. This gives Iljitsch van Beijnum a fit of conniptions, because he'd apparently racá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r rely on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 illusionary security of a firewall cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n actually securing his machines services. Lets hope he doesn't own any laptops.


Technorati Tags: Apple, internet, security, Wifi

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Tuesday, 13 February 2007

Begoogled

I joined Google this week, and am busy getting my head round its fractal complexities. Rosie wondered if I was begoogled (somewhere between bedazzled, beguiled and besotted).

Then, naturally, she googled 'begoogled' and found this blogpost, which uses it to mean something else.

Rosie cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n clicked on Chalicechick's Buy me stuff, I'm cute wishlist link, and, as she scrolled through it, became racá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r concerned.

What Rosie saw was this list, and as she progressed, she was increasingly worried about how much this random blogger girl had in common with me.

"Glenn Gould? Homeschooling? Ealing comedies? Facá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r Ted? Roger Waters? Groundhog Day? Extreme Programming? Who is this woman?"
"I'd better not tell Kevin about her, he might fancy her more!"

I had used Rosie's Mac to buy something from Amazon, so when Chalicechick bookmarked cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 link to edit her wishlist instead of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 permalink to it, Rosie got mine instead...




Technorati Tags: Amazon, bego, geeky, Google, wishlist

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