Chris Pirillo is busy planning Gnomedex 2005 which looks like it will be in Seattle Washington sometime this summer. Originally it sounded like Las Vegas was in the cards, but with Chris’ relocation to Seattle recently, I’m guessing it’ll be easier to organize if it’s in the Northwest. Had a great time last year and I hope to go again... (more)
January 2005 Archives
The January 2005 meeting of the SDForum Web Services SIG featured a presentation on “PHP5 & Web Services” by Andi Gutmans (a co-founder of Zend). Following are my notes and comments from the presentation. Introductory Notes PHP5 released in July 2004. PHP highlights; what are the key reasons it’s so popular? Rapid, iterative development cycles, low learning curve Robust, high-performance... (more)
Tonight we’re going to the first SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series of 2005 featuring Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist). They’ve been able to get some notable speakers recently. I’m a big fan of Craigslist and will be interested to hear his side of the story. Update: Really enjoyed Craig’s presentation. Hearing him talk in person gives you a good sense of... (more)
After much cajoling by me, my good friend Philip Bernosky has started his own weblog: Applied Marketing. In his opening post, Phil wrote: You might be asking – “why a blog on marketing”. Primarily this is an outlet for me to collect and organize my thoughts and experiences with the function of marketing in any organization – with a primary... (more)
CNET News.com (and others) are announcing that NFL will deliver game audio through Audible.com: Under terms of the agreement, Audible.com will offer MP3-compatible audio broadcasts of the Super Bowl and conference championship games. Listeners can download the entire broadcast, or selected highlights, the morning after the game. Consumers can download the games, from NFL.com, Audible.com and other online retailers, onto... (more)
Today Rob Fahrni ponders whether a Palm podcasting platform makes sense: It’s new and it’s hip. It’s the perfect time to create a new piece of hardware to support this endeavor. I myself this Palm is in the best position to make it work. Why Palm? Well for one thing you can write code to run on it! That’s absolutely... (more)
Recently published is the Top Yahoo! Searches for 2004 which includes a mix of the expected and unexpected. For some reason Britney Spears continues to be a huge attraction, although she only placed 4th in the overall list of top searches: American Idol Paris Hilton Jessica Simpson Britney Spears Harry Potter WWE Usher NASCAR NBA NFL I’m please to see... (more)
