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Sunday, October 26, 2003  Laszlo | Microsoft | rich media apps | Social Software   Microsoft's Community Application Microsoft is talking about people. Oh boy - watch out - here we go. Kirk Allen has the first screen shots up of our new PDC 2003 Community Application. This is the app that the team I'm a part of did. I'll be quiet on this for a while longer. Want to get unbiased feedback about it. Please do download and use it, though (only available to PDC attendees). His quote: "it's a very cool application." Oh, and check out how we use RSS 2.0! [The Scobleizer Weblog] This app is downloaded - now what's wrong with that picture?  Doesn't Microsoft have something called .ASP?  IIS?  Aren't they pushing 'web services' - so why is this a downloadable app? OH - that's right? Microsoft doesn't have their own "rich media platform" yet.  I'll have to introduce them to Laszlo. No wait! I did that already.  Hmmm, well at least I got ONE thing to ask Ballmer about.   8:40:12 PM     - Let me hear from you []  CSS | Microsoft | Paolo Valdemarin | Robert Scoble | Safari   Italian style and the Mac elite Paolo is a member of the Mac elite - a small but zealous group of Mac users who nerd out on Mac-only features.  But I happen to know that Paolo also believes in a cross-browser, multi-platform world - as well. How do you take advantage of these Mac only features - while existing in a 97% dominated PC universe? You certainly are serving Apple's needs by supporting these Mac only features - but what good does it do you, if you're a software developer - and you're trying to make money selling your wares?  This is why I feel 'horrible' for NetNewsWire and Spring.  Two incredible products - locked ino the Mac ghetto. So if you're wondering (good readers) why I'm going down to Lala next week and wearing  a garlic necklace - it's to understand, grok and prepare ourselves for the NEXT big thing - from Microsoft. Only then - will built in text shadowing, sexy animated collapse routines and built in 'digital lifestyle aggregation' - go mainstream. Until then - Mac zealots are stuck in the Mac ghetto.  But don't let Scoble and Microsoft hear - that I think they're copying Apple - again.  I'm sure - by now - they (Microsoft) might even have a couple of ideas that Apple hasn't stolen yet from somebody else  -  yet. Here's Paolo's post......... Soft Shadowing with Safari 1.1. Text-Shadow in Safari 1.1. Got Panther? Good. Using Safari? Excellent. Safari 1.1, shipping with OS X 10.3 (and should hopefully be available soon as a free download for 10.2 and under), comes with support for the Text-Shadow property found in CSS2. From what I can tell, Safari is the first - and only - browser to support this property. So if you've got Safari 1.1, click here for a demonstration. Page uses an inline style sheet, so be sure to view source to see how it's done. [What Do I Know] If you are using Safari 1.1 you'll see the nice soft shadow under all dates in this page, all it took was adding:  "text-shadow: dimgray 0px 3px 5px;"  to  the H2 entry of my css file (first value is the shadow color, second value horizontal shift, third vertical shift, fourth shadow's size). Have I ever told you how much I like soft shadows? :-) [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 10:22:26 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Cult of the CEO   Adios X10 X10 files chapter 11. In general, I think that schadenfreude is a bad idea, but in this case I'll make an exception. [Backup Brain] Call it bad luck or predatory tactics - but there's another angle on what's going on with the X10 bankruptcy.  For years - X10 has been one of the leading manufacturers of consumer, home oriented technology - which was "good enough".  Their X10 boxes were the kleenex of home networking and connectivity. But what we're seeing is another victim of greed and the Internet bubble.  More than 2/3 of the eyeballs clicking on X10 ads close the browser within :20.  Great metrics to confirm that banner ads (in whatever form they take) don't work.  The shotgun approach doesn't work. Sure X10 might have sold a few cameras to a few suckers (I have no idea how good these cameras are - or how many people actually use them) but hopefully the signal will go out to direct marketeers like X10 - "shoving crap down people's throats is not a business model".  Sure - I'm being idealistic - and sure there are plenty of decent products and servcies that use pop-unders and banner ads to market themselves, but boy, it's too bad that a perfectly decent consumer schlock company goes under - weighed down the cost of all those clicks.  Oh well. Or maybe it was good old greed and the cult CEO.  More investigation is required.  In the mean time - don't worry - they'll be plenty to take their place under your browser screens. 9:23:22 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Won't get there until..... Ted, agreed, the Knowledge Navigator is cool, but let's talk after Gates and Allchin talk on Monday. It's far more than just graphics and storage. [The Scobleizer Weblog] Unfortunately I won't be able to get down to Lala and the Convention Center until lunch tomorrow - so I'll miss the god heads bringing the word down from the mountain. But I have full confidence that the zealots, disciples and employees will enshrine these holey words in a propreitary format - which hopefully I'll be able to get access to - so I too, can bow, kiss the ring and pay homage to. 9:10:13 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Open Standards | OPML | PDC | platforms | Robert Scoble | RSS 1.0 | RSS 2.0 | The Mesh | XML-RPC   The dinosaur's foot is coming down.... Thanks to Dan Shafer for getting what I am trying to do here and giving me the time to do it. "We're stuck with Microsoft as the dominant computing platform of our age. We are probably best served by trying to help them figure out how to adapt and change than to confronting and accusing. If enough blogs like Robert's sprout up and get noticed outside the company, that may just happen." [The Scobleizer Weblog] It'll take more than blogs to influence or change Microsoft.  It's gonna take legions of open source, inter-connected apps and servcies - all united by open standards like RSS, OPML and XML-RPC. I get to suck from the collective tit of Microsoft next week - so I'll have PLENTY of time to ponder - just how this is going to happen.  As long as we know EXACTLY what Microsoft is doing - or at least what they'd like us to THINK they're doing - we'll have PLENTY of time to react, build our open "People's Mesh" and connect into their "devil's net". And yes - to those inquiriing minds - "I'll be wearing my garlic necklace all week".  :-) P.S.  For those who don't get the analogy of this post's title - John Perry Barlow is oft heard saying that the world is devided into two camps - the dinosaurs, who move VERY slowly and the small furry creatures.  As the dinosaurs foot comes down, the small furry creatures have plenty of time to get out of the way - as the dinosaurs are very slow.  That's us - the furry creatures - grokking Microsoft and building compatiblity in - while not getting too dependent. The final line is "who survived the ice age?" 9:03:43 AM     - Let me hear from you []