Paul Mooney

NY Wi-Fi

Philadelphia, San Francisco and Boston are doing it—why can't we?

Thanks to advances in Wi-Fi-- we can get every New Yorker connected for less than $10 a person, the price of a movie ticket!

Wi-Fi should be like water, or like a dial-tone on your phone. It's that important to our future.

Wi-Fi should be free in all public places -- and affordable for every business and home.

That's why I am joining with other New Yorkers to demand action -- now. No more excuses or cop-outs. We want a commitment, to deliver universal low-cost high-speed Internet access for every New Yorker by January 1, 2007.

Help the people of New York City get connected: Sign the petition  thank-you

Vloggers across America

Special Event - Summer of Vlog 2005 - Vloggercue

• See the web sites for details - add yours here
• Vloggercue East - Hoboken, NJ (http://www.vloggercue.blogspot.com/)
• Vloggercue Midwest - Minneapolis, MN (http://www.vlogmidwest.blogspot.com/)
• Vloggercue West - Ojai, CA (http://www.vloggercuewest.blogspot.com/)
• We will videoconference between cues where possible 

Grap your camera and start making media, I'm going to be in Minneapolis at Microsoft's WWPC...where we hope to do some Vlogging! Sign-up, get involved, we had a great time at Vloggercon 2005.

AMD action

Our competitor has harmed and limited competition in the microprocessor industry. On behalf of ourselves, our customers and partners, and consumers worldwide, we have been forced to take action.

We have filed a 48-page, detailed Complaint in federal district court. Because, as our Complaint explains exhaustively, Intel's actions include:

• Forcing major customers to accept exclusive deals,
• Withholding rebates and marketing subsidies as a means of punishing customers who buy more than prescribed quantities of processors from AMD,
• Threatening retaliation against customers doing business with AMD,
• Establishing quotas keeping retailers from selling the computers they want, and
• Forcing PC makers to boycott AMD product launches.

For most competitive situations, this is just business. But from a monopolist, this is illegal.

These serious allegations deserve serious attention. Earned success is one thing. Illegal maintenance of a monopoly is quite another.

Intel's behavior is much more than meets the eye. You may not have been aware, but Intel's illegal actions hurt consumers - everyday. Computer buyers pay higher prices inflated by Intel's monopoly profits. Less innovation is produced because less competition exists. Purchasers lose their fundamental right to choose the best technology available.

We believe the legal process will work. In the meantime, the men and women of AMD will continue to drive innovation, focusing on our customers and on the people who use computers at home and work every day.

At AMD, we know innovation. We thrive on competition. And we depend on a market based upon freedom of choice.

I ‘m a Microsoft, Intel and AMD Partner, they are the most forward thinking companies in the world today. I agree with Hector Ruiz, having had AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 processor PC 18 months before Microsoft wrote Windows XP 64 Edition. I’m sorry it had to come to this, let’s hope there is a settlement soon. I’d rather be writing about the new AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor.

Grid computing on Windows

Digipede Technologies is announcing the launch of Digipede Network 1.0 Team Edition today at C3 in NYC.

This is software that will enable us to create grid computing networks easily and cheaply.

Distributed computing solutions for
real-world business problems at any scale.

Learn more »

Till now a team of researchers and consultants was needed to connect a large amount of desktop computers into a single working machine. At WinHEC this year I saw a demonstration of how the next generation of Windows will allow multi-partitions that will roll your daytime desktop OS into a nighttime Grid Supercomputer. The PC that replaced the Mainframe has itself become a mainframe. Now we need to find more ways to apply this exciting technology.

CIO Bootcamp

CTC ended last week with an insightful and informative CIO Bootcamp. Thornton May was our fearless leader and he brought along his CIO Posse of Bruce Barnes, Terry Connor and Dr. Rob Rennie for support. The format for the two days was collaborative, with Thornton doing his best futurist provoking to inspire the next generation of CIO’s.

The participants all participated by communicating their experiences in corporate IT. I had a great time, listening and learning from their war stories. The biggest problem these CIO have is dealing with Salesman; I don’t see how you can gain knowledge from a Salesman. Today’s IT infrastructure must be constructed by understanding how all the bits and bytes flow through your systems, no one product can do it for you.

I spend much of my time learning and blogging about new technologies and I’m always looking for an easer way to do everything better, cheaper, and faster. Technology changes, that’s a constant and it exhilarates me!

Hey, collaboration makes us all look good! Thornton now needs to learn more about the power of the Web, he and his Posse should collaborate with SharePoint, blogs or Wikis and help the next generation of CIO’s understand what is required to compete and win with the latest and greatest technology.

Hey surfs up, either you ride the wave or you get swept under.

Grok this

Some amazing work was done by Scott Stanfield and the folks at Vertigo Software. They've finished the GrokTalks and have uploaded them. Congrats to the RDs who worked so hard on their talks and orcsweb for making this site possible!

How to Watch the Videos

You can download the videos directly from their links, but you can also Podcast them (have them automatically download from an agent) using any Podcasting Application pointed to our RSS feed.

I recommend Drizzlecast as it will download the videos using only idle bandwidth using Microsoft's built in BITS technology. If you are using an RSS Reader like feeddemon, you may already have this functionality built in, so check your software's help files.

Enjoy!
scott hanselman

This is a spin-free zone, no PR or Sales guys got near the camera! This is the pure drop from the Microsoft Regional Directors; it was a labor of love and a gift to the community. So what are you waiting for? Get the Grok Talks!

SharePoint Portal 2006

This post is a shout-out to our NJ SharePoint User Group, I got to meet Mike Fitzmaurice last week at CTC, he is the Technical Product Manager at Microsoft for SharePoint Products and Technologies.

At a CTC morning applications track session Mike didn't get much time to speak about SharePoint, but I caught up with him in the hallway. First I asked him about the next version of SharePoint and he said Bill Gates himself said that all the Microsoft Office System Products will get a new rev next year. I told him how just last week I saw a demo of Microsoft Business Solutions and discovered they will be using SharePoint as their main UI. “Yea, everybody is using SharePoint” was his answer, then I mentioned that I was a member of the NJ SharePoint UG and his face lite-up, “I've been following you guys since the start, you're the largest group we have. Keep-up the good work”. Cool!

Microsoft had almost no impact at CTC and I would like to understand why. Anoop Gupta was listed as a Keynoter, but he didn't get much time in the Presence: The Battle for the Desktop discussion. The moderator bombarded us with her PowerPoint presentation as he and Gordon Quinn sat on their stools.

Mike Fitzmaurice was crammed on a panel with five others, but he could have stayed around and chatted with everyone at the conference. Ramin Vosough and Ed Simnett were there too, but also cut-out like boys leaving school early. Microsoft did have two booths in the Vendor area, but most of the time they were unattended.  CTC was a great opportunity to win friends and influence people, the venue was perfect, the food fabulous and the attendees were very eager to learn. So why wasn't Microsoft collaborating?

Microsoft gets ATOM

Longhorn + RSS & Atom

Hey, I see Microsoft announced RSS Support in Longhorn; good stuff! The services they plan to provide (subscription list, data store, sync engine) sound pretty plausible. As for their list-control extensions, it’s up to the implementors and the market to decide if they’re useful; they look like they won’t break anything, so the experiment is free. I’m somewhat amused by the last paragraph’s “We will support Atom 1.0 when it’s released.” That will be in the next few weeks, which is to say at least a year before Longhorn is.

Longhorn and RSS interview now up

The Scobleizer just posted an hour-long interview on Channel9!

MSDN - Understanding RSS in Longhorn

Microsoft Simple List Extensions Specification Learn about the new support for RSS in the Longhorn Platform           

 Dean Hachamovitch, IE blog:  

"Earlier today, I went to downtown Seattle to Gnomedex 5.0, and stood up in front of 300 tech influentials, enthusiasts and leaders to talk about some really exciting things that we’ve been working on for the past several months.

The main thing I talked about is the deep platform support for RSS that we’re building into the next version of Windows codenamed “Windows Longhorn.” 

We think that the RSS functionality in Longhorn will make it easy for users to discover, view and subscribe to RSS feeds, as well as make it simple for developers to incorporate the rich capabilities of RSS into their applications.

SQL Server Backup/Recovery

Tonight the NYC SQL Server User Group will be meeting

Tonight it's Imceda' presentation on SQL Server Backup/Recovery.

David Swanson-Director of IMCEDA Support Organization and Senior Sales Engineer The topics covered will Be: Backup & Recovery Best Practices

Enterprise Backup Strategy

Enterprise Backup Management Encryption (Security and Compliance)

Overview LiteSpeed’s role in maximizing the efficiency of the backup and recovery process

If you would like to join us send a conformation email to joelax@dbdirections.com 

NJ Dev Dinner

NJ Dev Dinner – Wednesday June 22nd

By DonXML Demsak

If you happen to be in NJ, and want to hang out at a cool brewpub with some fellow developers, you are welcome to stop by The Harvest Moon Brewery, New Brunswick on Wed. June 22nd.  I’ll be getting in around 6PM, and should be there for at least a couple hours (free wireless internet access and fresh brewed beer, great combination).

 I'll be back in the city tomorrow, had a good day today learning about the Wisdom of Crowds at CTC with James Surowiecki. On a crowded New York City street I had an amazing encounter with the actress Susan Sarandon, she looked into my eyes and smiled as she quickly walked by at 15th street and 6th avenue. Do you think she reads my blog?

Collaboration Tech

CTC Keynote: Thomas Malone

By Ross Mayfield

Notes from the Collaborative Technologies Conference in NYC, mirrored in the wiki, from a talk I've heard before by Thomas Malone, the author of The Future of Work -- but also with a quick video conference with Jimmy Wales while talking about Wikipedia. Intro by the event organizer: Interop is the genesis of this conference, even the first shows had a collaboration thread.  But most of Interop focuses on IT.  Business side of collaboration is the harder problem to solve, the focus of this event and one of the goals is to credentialize the concept of collaboration.  Launched a new site, Collaboration Loop.  Folks collaborating in the wiki (when the wifi is up) Thomas Malone starts by asking the question, how many of you are happy this morning?  This is one of the happiest audiences he has spoken to, apparently.  We are in the early stages of an increase in human freedom in business, an important a change in business as the change of democracy for governments.  The reason is it is now possible to have the economic benefits for very large organizations and at the same time have the human benefits of very small organizations: freedom flexibility and creativity.  Lower communication costs mean many people have enough information to make decisions for themselves.  But, just because it is possible, doesn't mean it will happen -- what drives these changes is what people want. People use their freedom to get more of what they want. First day at CTC has been good! Nice to hang-out with A-listers like Russ, Anil Dash and Clay Sharky. Tom Malone was nice too, he came up to me and introduced himself! “I'm the first speaker“, hi Tom! posted Monday, June 20, 2005 1:22 PM by paul with 2 Comments Scott's list Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable.  Here's Scott's.  Each has a distinct purpose, and he probably touches each at least a few times a week.  Util means utilitarian and it means don't clutter my tray.  If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it's the bomb The Big Ten Life and Work-Changing Utilities posted Monday, June 20, 2005 1:03 PM by paul with 1 Comments Google Wallet 38 years after the summer of love, San Francisco and the Bay Area is bracing for war as Google has set its sights on PayPal - ebay and Craigslist. With its stock price ballooning the best ideas the billionaires of Silicon Valley could come up with mimic the models of the other successful Bay Area e-successes. There is relief in Redmond and confusion in the peanut gallery where the pundits thought Google was going for the desktop. Google Wallet is about to be announced, followed by a classified advertising service and it will be dog-edog on the streets of San Francisco this summer. posted Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:25 PM by paul with 2 Comments