Big news in the MS world. Scoble reports that Microsoft has released the schema to it's Office 2003 format, meaning in theory you should be able to create Office documents from other applications and have the work perfectly in Office. This is something I've bumped my head on alot in my career, trying to build docs from scripting languages. If this is all true and actually works it's going to be a very good day for programmers everywhere.
It's not about features anymore -- it's about geek jewelry: "The non-Apple side of the world isn't even playing the same game."
(Via The Scobleizer Weblog.) - Is Scoble the only person outside the Apple "family circle of trust" who gets this? This is huge. I totally agree that it has zero, nothing, nada to do with features. Heck USB drives are 5 years old. The difference is that this is sold by Apple, called an iPod, and has white headphones. That's it. It's fantastic marketing. Apple has literally pulled off a Coup d'état on the mainstream consumer electronic industry. There stock is going through the roof because of it. It's not just that they're making money now, but apple has won the hearts and minds of the youth. It's high school kids and young professionals who are propelling this movement and those people will be Apple customers for years to come. It's kind of funny that just when geeks thought it was all about the features it turns out it's all about the marketing.
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" Is the PowerBook G5 near at hand?" (via The Register)
GlobeTel announced today that it has signed a contract to provide Stratellites throughout South America, starting with Lima, Peru. This is big news as I believe its the first contract requiring the actual delivery and service of a Stratellite.
Come on, give me a break. Maybe it wouldn't be soooo stupid if they just had a few well thought out categories. I'm OK with weblog of the year, best design, that type of thing. "Lifetime Achievement", "Best Non-Weblog Content of a Weblog Site" huh?, "Best Meme"!!!!!!!
Give me a break.
UPDATE:
This has become a very popular post. If you have comments on GTEL or other stocks I'm trying to move this conversation over to BestAsk.net. So let's continue there!
I appear to be one of the only weblogs covering GTEL and there's been alot of pointers over here from various forums and so on, so I suppose I'll continue my coverage at least while things are in motion. We were up 23% today, if anyone knows why please leave a comment! Can't really figure it out, but there was huge volume of 47,000,000 shares. Everyone who got in a .09 can't start smiling now :-)
GTEL is up 17% through mid day on very high volumes. I haven't really found any news that would indicate what's going on, but I like it!
Due to popular demand, I've added comment subscription via email using the Scriptygoddes Plugin. Seems to be working. Enjoy!
Steve Rubel points out that Google has hired a developer off the Firefox team. This is once again increasing speculation that Google is building a browser.
As someone who develops web based applications for a living I live in fear of this day. I don't care what Google is building I just hope and pray that it's not a browser. I really don't think I can take another browser. What's that you say? It's based on Mozilla so that's good you say? Hogwash.
Netscape, Firefox, and Camino are all based on Mozilla. Guess what, they each have their own quirks as it is. Now add GBrowser, plus IE 5, IE5.5, IE6, IE6 SP2, AOL Browser, and Safari. Now your talking real money in testing and development. Sure if they all followed the specs it wouldn't matter, but they don't and they won't so adding more won't make anything better.
So please Google don't build a browser and in the meantime maybe Scoble + Firefox + talk of a Google browser will be enough to wakeup Microsoft and get them going on IE again before the market crumbles into total disarray.