My last post about Xobni Invites got so much traffic, that I decided to contact the good people at Xobni to ask whether I could get some more invites for all people who find their way here. It turns out that the Xobni guys are just as great as their product, and they have made 30 more invites available exclusively for munkiihouse.com visitors!
For anyone who hasn’t heard, Xobni is a cool plugin for Microsoft Outlook which provides a wide variety analytics information about emails you receive. I have been using Xobni for 7 weeks now, and I love it. For many years now email clients have been sorely lacking innovation. To see Xobni providing innovative new ideas and functions to this space is a welcome breath of fresh air.
To get a copy of the Xobni beta, head on over to www.xobni.com/download. Enter the code “tony” in the box provided as well as your email address and you should receive a link to where you can download the software from. The code will only work for the first 30 people, so get in quick!
News has just come out that the European Union has just landed Microsoft with a $1.35 billion (899 million Euro) fine for failing to comply with their 2004 order to suply interoperability data for its products to competitors. This brings the total fine to $2.5 billion.
Last time this happened, there was a lot of anger from some Americans, that their successful American company was being pushed around by the European economic watch dog. Needless to say, the same anger is going to be ignited again now. The obvious answer to that, is that while Microsoft is an ‘American’ company, they do have a global footprint, and they do effect all of us non-Americans too.
Flex and AIR were both released which is a fantastic leap forward for application technology. I can’t wait to start playing with these properly.
I found out that I didn’t win the Degrafa derby, which was sad for me. I put a lot of effort into PostACard, but congratulations to Erno Aapa for his winning entry!
I went to the New Zealand Flex User Group meeting to celebrate the new product launches. I got a cool Adobe AIR (head) T-shirt, and I also won the raffle for a copy of Flex Builder 3! Thanks to Adobe and Campbell for putting the event on for us.
A really interesting look at copyright law, how it came to be, how it works out and what we need to do to break the extremism developing on both sides.
Entries have now closed to the 360|Flex API contest, and the voting phase has begun. My PostACard application is one of the contenders, but I need your votes to help me win.
Please take a minute now to follow these three easy steps to vote for me. I would really appreciate it!
Some of my coworkers and I were discussing web2.0 business models the other day over lunch. The conversation eventually wandered through Flickr, YouTube as well as most of the other big names.
One thing which I have known for a while, but which hit me again during the conversation, was that the popular opinion on the web is that sites like Flickr and YouTube lose money! Neither company have made any such information public, but when you look at the shear amount of bandwidth a service like YouTube uses, and the distinct lack of ads shown on their pages, its not hard to image money being lost.
So that begs the question. Why would companies like Yahoo, Microsoft and Google be so keen to spend billions of dollars acquiring these companies that don’t make money?
Disclaimer Munkiihouse.com is my own personal blog. The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the opinions of Outsmart or SmallWorlds.
SmallWorlds has been in a closed beta for two weeks now and development is hurrying onward towards our full release. If you haven’t got an account yet, leave a comment on this post with a valid email address, and I’ll make sure you get an invite sent out to you. The response to SmallWorlds has been overwhelmingly positive with many people commenting on both the user experience and technological achievements on display. One question which has come up a few times however, is whether or not we will be releasing SmallWorlds as an AIR application.
My last post about Xobni Invites got so much traffic, that I decided to contact the good people at Xobni to ask whether I could get some more invites for all people who find their way here. It turns out that the Xobni guys are just as great as their product, and they have made 30 more invites available exclusively for munkiihouse.com visitors!
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