Archive for December, 2005
VNC vs. WebEx: VNC wins!
I’m running a little activity at work tomorrow where I need to allow several remote people to show demos (mostly web-based and likely on Firefox) on a laptop hooked into a projector in a conference room full of people watching the demos. This sounds like a job made for WebEx, right? I hadn’t [...]
Some old systems (almost) never die
It’s been a long time since I’ve thought about Solaris running on Oracle (having long since moved over to Linux/MySQL for most things), but I was recently contacted by the VP of Technology at one of my old employers with a question about an Oracle database I had set up there about six and a [...]
Syndicate Conference next week
The Syndicate conference is next week in San Francisco, and I think it’s well worth checking out. Last year, the conference was an interesting mix of traditional media types who wanted to know what all the RSS/blogs/syndication fuss was about along with the folks who were creating the new world. This year, Doc [...]
John Battelle, the Yahoo! TechDev Speaker Series, and the “Flickrization” of Yahoo!
John Battelle visited Yahoo! yesterday and wrote about it on his blog (see perspectives on the talk from Jeremy, Matt, and Nate. I took the blurry photo you see on your right). I invited John to speak for somewhat obvious reasons (he just wrote a book about search) but it was [...]
Browser breakdown and other stats for my blog
I’ve never paid much attention to browser usage on my blog, but I just looked and it breaks down like this according to Measure Map (from November 5 to the present):
Firefox: 48%
MSIE: 35%
Safari: 13%
Other: 4%
According to Measure Map, my readership is 71% U.S., 5% Australia, 5% Canada, 4% UK, 2% Germany, and 2% India. [...]