Wed Jul 26 2000 06:52:
I bet I forgot my sandwiches. Nope.
Wed Jul 26 2000 07:02:
An interview with my hero (in a Penelope Pitstop sort of way),
Scott Fritzinger of gPhoto. If you like Garrett LeSage's Segfault icons,
he's also the guy who does all the graphics for linux.com. Even if you don't like them, that's what he does. He's not going to stop just because you don't like what he did for Segfault.
Wed Jul 26 2000 07:03:
I love you too, Celeste.
Wed Jul 26 2000 07:07:
Crud. I really gotta write up descriptions for the O'Reilly pictures, as Cam has linked to them.
The big push now, apparantly, is P2P. Pseudo-acronym for "person-to-person" (with Edward R. Murrow). This is by analogy with the previous big pushes, B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer). Note that Cs must share a 2-bond with a B, or they become Ps. It's like chemistry.
People are floating business plans for P2P schemes, which is interesting as P2P has no B in it, just Ps. So why the business plans, rather than just a standards document that Ps agree to follow? The answer is probably that the actual business plans are for C2B2C schemes, which are pointless because there's little or no value in them (versus a comparable P2P) for anyone outside the B.
Napster is a good example of a C2B2C business. Gnutella is a much better implementation of the idea (although it doesn't have as many users), and the reason is that it's P2P instead of C2B2C. This saves everyone a lot of trouble because it lets the Ps get on with their 2-binding without having to become Cs beholden to a B for their 2.
The one good thing that has come out of this silliness is a sort of taxonomy of business plans. Expect in the future to see P2C2B2C plays, C2B2C2B2C partnerships, and B2C2C2P2P2C2B2C supply chains.
Wed Jul 26 2000 09:15:
People visiting from Camworld: you probably want me to pontificate about industry trends, so here goes.
Wed Jul 26 2000 09:31:
The problem with Carnivore is its name. If you're ZDNet, it's easy to take "Carnivore" and run with it in headlines. It would be much more difficult to expose the evil of Carnivore if it were called something like "LTOW".
Wed Jul 26 2000 12:19:
While at lunch I received 10 copies of the same spam mail.
Wed Jul 26 2000 12:27:
Some pictures of Brian and other dev people at collab, taken yesterday.
Wed Jul 26 2000 12:31:
And 4 more copies. I think this guy's spam-bot might not check for duplicates.
Wed Jul 26 2000 13:46:
Another 5 copies end the spam, at least for now. Mike says he got 6 copies.
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