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AOL
Sphere, the related content company I co-founded three years ago, has been acquired by AOL. I think I logged about 185 hours of sleep and 3 blog posts on remylabs over the last three years, but building Sphere has been really fun, thanks to the best team in the business. We have a small but… Read more ⇢
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Alloy Modeling Language
I stumbled across this profoundly cool tool this week. From the Alloy homepage: Alloy [is] a simple structural modeling language based on first-order logic. The [Alloy Analyzer] can generate instances of invariants, simulate the execution of operations (even those defined implicitly), and check user-specified properties of a model. Alloy and its analyzer have been used… Read more ⇢
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Umbria – Market Intelligence from Blogs
FORTUNE has an article (“Blogging for Dollars”) that covers Umbria, a company based here in Colorado that tracks what bloggers are saying about its clients (aka mining blogs for market intelligence). Economically, this market is finally starting to take shape — the ideas and attempts have been out there for a few years, but consumer… Read more ⇢
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Spolsky: Windows Live, Marimba Phenomenon
Joel Spolsky had a similarly disappointing experience with Windows Live as I did. He calls it the Marimba Phenomenon: The Marimba Phenomenon is what happens when you spend more on PR and marketing than on development. “Result: everybody checks out your code, and it’s not good yet. These people will be permanently convinced that your… Read more ⇢
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Windows Half-Live?
Windows Live looks like Microsoft’s tardy and half-baked answer to My Yahoo! It’s a customizable portal, with placeholders for weather and news and feed subscriptions etc. According to Bill Gates’ announcement today (video at CNET), Windows and Office are not required to use Windows Live. But try it from Safari on your Mac, and you’ll… Read more ⇢
Martin Remy 