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- VisiCalc turns 30 and SocialCalc turns 1.0
- According to my notebook from 1979, 30 years ago today Dan Fylstra, head of Personal Software, our Bay Area publisher, told me that he had the first production VisiCalc packages in hand. I received mine the next day Saturday delivery. So today, for argument's sake, is the 30th anniversary of...
- News items 2009-10-19
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- Electronic Signage Networks (ESN) as "Killer App": White Paper
- This whitepaper describes Electronic Signage Networks are the next "Killer App." Electronic Signage Networks ESN are poised to follow Word Processing, VisiCalc, bar codes, Enterprise Resource Planning and e-mail, in becoming the next "Killer App", a technology application that finds its place in usage quickly and broadly, because of its...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- How Microsoft Marketing Screwed Us All.
- How Microsoft Marketing Screwed Us All.You have a choice.So use another operating system. Look at Linux:http://librenix.com/?inode=21True but...While everything in this article is true, it does not really tell the whole story. The thesis of this article is that Microsoft left the operating system open as a marketing ploy...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-24
- Don’t Touch That Technology -- Please
- I got a link to an interview transcript from On the Media, the NPR program about the media industry, and had to pass it on because it’s one of the smarter discussions on technology and the Internet I’ve seen in a while. Jonathan Zittrain was hawking his new book, The...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Separate, but safe, orbits - software industry and politics - Editor's Letter
- U.S. Congressman Barney Frank was late to his morning speaking engagement at the recent annual meeting of the Massachusetts Software Council, because, when he woke up he realized all his shirts were at the cleaners. "A few years ago, it would have been okay to wear a T-shirt to...
- Research articles 1992-06-01
- Manage Projects, Make Complex Lists with Blist
- Despite what the dude who invented VisiCalc intended, most of us use spreadsheets to make glorified lists. We enter, arrange, organize, and sort data, and every once in a while we might use the Autosum tool to add up a bunch of numbers. So stop using a spreadsheet and try...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Google Won't Disrupt Microsoft in the OS Market
- When I first read the announcement that Google is developing a computer operating system to compete with Microsoft, it was a bit of a yawn. Interesting, but not much chance of success, thought I. After all, Google, for all its glittering PR, is still basically a company...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
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