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- Things to do when you're bankrupt: Buy some champagne
- Could porn domain rise phoenix-like from the ashes?
- Ajax is hitting enterprise IT already
- Bruce Perens asks for Open Source Help in Microsoft PR Fight
- Borland on slashing staff and selling Delphi
- Millions of bloggers suffer BlueFrog spam war outages
- Web 2.0 is the new rock and roll
Jason Stamper's Blog: May 2006 Archives
Things to do when you're bankrupt: Buy some champagne
May 25, 2006
Server maker Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) is gathering a bunch of hacks to its breast at the uber-trendy Kettners Champagne Bar in London's Soho next month. Nothing strange in that, other than the fact that earlier this month SGI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Could porn domain rise phoenix-like from the ashes?
May 19, 2006
Could the .xxx porn domain still have an outside chance of coming to fruition?
My colleague Kevin Murphy wrote the piece below, but I've posted it here because it seems to suggest that the .xxx porn domain idea may have legs yet, and I know how much interest there is in this topic right now…
Porn Domain Firm Sues US Government
By Kevin Murphy
ICM Registry LLC, the company behind the proposed .xxx internet porn domain, will today sue two departments of the US government for access to documents it claims show the US pressured ICANN into rejecting the domain.
The Florida-based startup will sue the Department of Commerce and the Department of State to get them to release documents that they redacted when they responded to a Freedom Of Information Act request that ICM filed last year.
The suit is expected to allege that the documents released to ICM so far show that the US “exerted undue political influence on ICANN’s consideration of the .xxx domain application”, and that the redactions were unlawful under FOIA.
Continue reading Kevin's piece here.
Ajax is hitting enterprise IT already
May 18, 2006
It's becoming clear that the new rich thin client technology -- Ajax -- will make it into enterprise IT sooner rather than later.
Ajax (asynchronous communications, JavaScript and XML) has emerged as a new development technique for creating visually rich and interactive web applications. But if anyone thought it would be some time before Ajax moved from the realm of Google and Yahoo into the enterprise IT fabric, they'd be mistaken. It's happening today.
Bruce Perens asks for Open Source Help in Microsoft PR Fight
May 12, 2006
The indefatigable open source evangelist Bruce Perens is rousing the open source community, in an effort to regain a toehold in its PR war with Microsoft. Believe it or not, the latest front on which the battle rages is all around parking.
Borland on slashing staff and selling Delphi
May 04, 2006
Yesterday Borland announced yet another restructuring and said it was slashing 20% of its staff -- that's around 300 positions worldwide. You can read our full news coverage of that announcement here.
Millions of bloggers suffer BlueFrog spam war outages
CBR managed to get an interview with Blue Security's CEO, Eran Reshef, to understand better how Six Apart became the unwitting victim of a spam war.
Web 2.0 is the new rock and roll
May 02, 2006
I've just seen an interesting discussion started by BBC director of global news, Richard Sambrook, describing Web 2.0 as the new rock and roll. It's snipped by We Media blogger Alfred Hermida here.
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