They just announced that they bought rolodex company Plaxo. Price rumored to be betw $100 and $200 million. Media sharing? Comcast? You gotta be kidding. Maybe they can share the rolodex of the people they just bought and try to work with creative media technology people instead of threatenin g to fire them as customers. Just sayin.

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Lots of new toys to play with. You can find all of the informatio n on labs.

The Kindle, Am azon’ ;s ugly but useful ebook reader that launched in November 2007, may be a burgeoning hit, says Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney. Citi expects Amazon to generate between $400 million and $750 million in revenue from the Kindle by 2010, or 1% - 3% of AmazonR 17;s total revenue. The key points of differenti ation with the [...]

I’m giving a p resentatio n on “The Politics of Metrics ” in Rochester on May 15th, for a seminar being organized by the IT Metrics and Produc tivity Institute; it’s an updated version of the presen tation I gave in Orlando a month or two ago. You should attend in person, if possible, so you can not only hear my [...]

So, I was chatting with the driver of the limo my hosts in Las Vegas kindly supplied for me. When I said that I write about tech nology, he told me about his startup. It's a social network that he's confident will knock FaceBook and MySpace off the map. So, when ...

Software Tool & Die Inc. is pleased to announce that they have released heir STD Foundation Classes for EAServ er/PB and PowerBuild er 11.2 GA build 8407) ...

My next week is a mix of business and sights eeing in I ndia.  ; I’ll be delivering two talks and one workshop at the Great Indian Developers Summit . First Jesse James Garret, who fathered the term AJAX, most likely will tell the audience th

I’m excited to announce the launch of a new site, Bugpedia. Creating the Enerjy Index threw out a lot of f ascinating data and I was frustrated that I did n’t really have anywhere to put it. For example, if you follow this blog you’ ll have seen Rich& #8217;s post on our analysis of Cyclomatic Complexity . Well, just [...]

Sean McGrath gave the closing pr esentation at XTech 2008 last week in Dublin. He quoted from Jorge Luis Borges's The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. Wilkins was an 17th Century English scientist. (He is also one of the characters in Neal St ephenson's Quicksilve r.) Wilkins designed a Philosophi cal Language in which the letters of each word give not just the sound but also the specific meaning of the word. It would have been an amazing accomplish ment had it worked. Borges su

Totally goofy but humorous Floppy Drive video. Technorati Tags: data transfer, Humor SHARETHIS. addEntry({ title: "Old School Data Transfer", url: "http ://sociali zedsoftwar e.com/2008 /05/13/old -school-da ta-transfe r/" });

Join us Aug. 4 ? 8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort &Casino in Las Vegas, NV... for the 10th Annual Sybase User Training and Solutions Conference .

Among the many reasons I’ve been posting so infrequent ly was wedding planning. My own. Last Saturday, Stacy and I conducted our ceremony at the Hillside Club in Berkeley. Ryan posted a set of 16 beautiful photos from the event. To be truly f orthcoming , Stacy and I were already te chnically married, having done a San Francisco City Hall [...]

The saddest day at the conference is undoubtly friday, when they pack the pavillion stuff and you perceive that the thing is almost over. For some reasons, however, friday has been one of my most important days at the confer ence...

Are you hopelessly addicted to program ming in Sh arePoint? Do you think that everything in the world can be fixed using a custom list, some duct tape, the BDC and chewing gum? If so, read this post!

I recently picked up Ron Paul&# 8217;s “The Revolution : A Manife sto” . I’ve made my way through the first two chapters which do a great job of simply explaining the problems with our g overnment. A few of the highlights include, for example, the 1996 election won by the Republican party: The Contract with America was typical [...]

This years JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed.

New APIs, new algorithms and new pr ogramming language. Want more can a geek ask for?

As I write the last of my event summary reports and follow up action items, I am now officially putting a bow on the TIBCO user conference (TUCON 2008) What a madhouse. I was acco untable for the TIBCO Analyst Summit (TIBCO?s first ever), two days of the Business O ptimizatio n track of presentati ons (combining [...]

Apparently Lucas is up to his old tricks again . How sad . I was hoping that Spielberg might diminish Lucas? influence on the film . *sigh* I?ll probably go see it anyway. On the upside Iron Man was surpri singly good and Prince Caspian looks to be good... (read more)

PocketBuil der 2.5.1 is getting some new samples from our evangelist Ian Thain.

Dave Fish has a number of entries on his blog site demon strating the soon to be released features, including DataWindow ToolTips and New Graph Styl es.Origina l Entry

At the end of this week, I will no longer be employed by BEA Systems. It has been a great 4 years working at BEA, and u ndoubtedly the highlight of my career thus far. I have enjoyed the opport unity to write for the BEA developer community, and to lead Tooling at BEA these last 3 years.

According to Forrester research wider handset av ailability , improved network coverage and new pricing models are going to foster rapid adoption of mobile internet services in Europe.By 2013 they predict that the number of people using the Internet via mobile phone will be 125 million - three times toda y's figure.  Some countries, such as the UK, will adopt even faste r. Im proved handset devices, such as the Iphone 2.0, improved networks, such as 3.5G, better network coverage, and fl

Meet you at the JavaOne Modularity session and BOF on Wednesday (May 7th) to share more about the Java Module System and OSGi support. We will show some simple demos of the Java Module System and how a Java module imports an OSGi bundle.