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Saturday, August 17, 2002
 

My friend Gretchen Dianda has a new company called Sandwichs direct.  They allow you to design your own sandwich and have it delivered rigt to your desk.  The graphics are pretty shitty, but you have to hand it to them - for the chutzpah alone.  The only hitch is that you hve to be an employee at some huge downtown company, which has signed up to SD already.  Oooops.

 

It looks like many of the concepts we're building into "Hubbie" are starting to migrate into Radio.  Lots of cool interactivity; like shared outlines, instant messaging, decent layout control and other kinds of web services - are now available as Radio 'tools'. 

Integration is a key tenet of "Hubbie" (our product we're hoping to ship next year) - and we'll continue to look for signs that the world is trying to provide easier, more appropriate user experiences to humans (otherwise known as 'end-users'.)  Aggregation is another major tenet.  Paolo has started the process with a 'tool' to......

And the other 'Marc' has some cool CSS code to enable your blog to display it's content hierarchically.

However - it should also be noted that Paolo's PostIt tool only encourages lost data, unless its contents become part of a blog entry or daily blog entry.  That's what our "hyperblog" objects are all about.

Though the court delayed their lawsuit demanding a judgement on their right to 'fair use', Craig and the EFF have been added to the defence - as representatives of 'customers'.   The 28 studios and networks suing SonicBlue complained.

An interesting related situation has the recently appointed CEO at SonicBlue starting to ease back from his predecessor's righteous stance.  Let's see if the Replay keeps it's current set of features - or if they back off to satisfy Valenti et al.

It doesn't seem coincidental that Ken Poasher - the original CEO of SonicBlue and the head of the Replay legal efforts - is kicked out, right as he's doing great things to defend our rights to 'fair use'.

 

This is an animated gif I did - based on a photo taken outside the Grey Area in Amsterdam. I simulated the flash with a Photoshop processing feature.


Updated: 9/17/2003; 11:59:32 AM.