Gadgetopia

640KB ought to be enough for anyone: This was published a few weeks ago, and although I was beaten over the head with references to it in my aggregator, I just got around to reading it. I don't know what to think. The first part of the article is Ray ...

Ray Ozzie's Weblog: Ray Ozzie gets medieval on the future of email here. "Anyone who is doing a critical business process online that involves substantial dialog between individuals should NOT be using email at this point in history, and many no longer are." That Ray feels this way shouldn't be ...

Bill Gates to step down from Microsoft: Wow. But he's always been great from a philanthropic standpoint, so he'll do well just running his foundation. Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he will transition out of a day-to-day role at the company he co-founded to spend more time on ...

Architecture astronauts take over: This whole thing is great. Spolsky gets downright medieval further down. And what is this Windows Live Mesh? It s a way to synchronize files. Jeez, we ve had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, ...

Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine.: This is an interesting article on Second Life, which I think is the next YouTube in terms of its effect on the Internet. Really, really big things are going to happen with this. By early January more than 3,000 ...

Shadows of future versions of Outlook?: Here's a look at an internal company memo about how to organize email messages. Essentially, you treat email conversations as threads of a discussion forum conversation. ...about half the time you use e-mail, it's a no-brainer. Someone sends you a message, you reply, they ...