marketing – Wetmachine

Intel adapting to OLPC, and graphics accleration on mobiles

Stearns May 30, 2007 May 30, 2007Inventing the Future, Philosophical business mumbo-jumbo

My read of this money.cnn.com article, and the linked presentations for investors, is that Intel’s fairly near-term strategy:

Includes major specific responses to the OLPC. (E.g., a focus on lower cost and marketing in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.) OLPC has changed the game.

Suggests that graphics acceleration must be included in Intel’s products for mobile computing. (E.g., noting that “the most important applications…including Second Life” won’t run on a mobile phone, and that the “uncrompromised” “full Internet” has to run on mobiles without delay from when it is available on desktops.)

Nothing to be surprised at, but this is the first time I’ve seen this officially from Intel.

Making a Living in Languages (Redux) part 8: Killer Apps

Stearns December 18, 2006 February 24, 2013Inventing the Future, Philosophical business mumbo-jumbo

Last time: “Give ‘Em What They Want,” in which I said that having a desirable application “from the beginning” is necessary to promote a platform.
Now: Sounds good, but how do we go about creating such a scenario? We engineer it!

[This is an excerpt from a Lisp conference talk I gave in 2002.]

Small But Potentially Significant Spectrum Ruling

Harold July 13, 2005 March 19, 2013General, Spectrum, Tales of the Sausage Factory

Unnoticed by most folks, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a public notice on the legality of cell phone jammers. (They aren’t.) Oddly, this may have very significant impacts for users of unlicensed spectrum.

Ghost Writer

John June 9, 2004 February 24, 2013General, My Thoughts Exactly

I was ego surfing today when I came upon this

link to a book “Inside the Sun386i and Sun486i” by Peter Norton and, to my great astonishment, me.

Amazon lists the book as “not in stock”, but I wonder if it even exists, or ever existed. If it does exist I would certainly love to get my hands on a copy. Because I never wrote it.

We interrupt this program

John March 24, 2004 February 24, 2013General, My Thoughts Exactly

For a brief commercial announcement.

My employer, Laszlo Systems, makes some cool XML-based technology for so-called rich internet applications that run in Flash players. For those of you who don’t have a current degree in marketing buzzspeak, I’ll explain that that means you use Laszlo’s stuff to write nifty interactive web apps that don’t require page refreshes, and that the language in which you write them doesn’t suck. See the little blogging widget to the right for a micro-example.

As of yesterday Laszlo has greatly liberalized its free-for-developers and free-for-noncomercial-use policies. If you do any web development you really should go get the download. It’s cool, and it’s free.