Archives for August 2006
Feel free to ignore this entry, I’m just experimenting with a new blogging tool from Microsoft, called LiveWriter. One of the things with blogging, is that it’s not yet as easy to compose a blog entry as it is to compose a document by using a word processor. The new LiveWriter product (which is beta) […]
I have a new favourite blog - The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Truly hilarious!
If you follow the world of software at all, you’d be hard-pressed to have missed the news that Microsoft is dropping Virutal PC on the Mac, and dropping support for VBA in the Mac version of Office. What’s particularly interesting, at least in the case of VBA, is that this isn’t a financial decision […]
Tim O’Reilly has put together a useful visualisation of the relative popularities, and growth in sales, of books on computer programming languages.
A few things to note from the graph. C#.NET is seeing a big increase in popularity, it’s now getting close to Java in terms of absolute book sales. This fits in with anecdotal […]
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Stay tuned for live reaction to the Steve Jobs keynote presentation at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference.
There are now 0.75 million registered developers for the Mac. Off the top of my head that compares to about 5 million Java developers, and around 30 million software developers in general.
There were 1.3 millon […]
Looks like there’s a bit of controversy surrounding the suggestion in Business Week that Digg.com might be sold for in excess of $200M. The controversy surrounds the company’s revenues, which are estimated at $3M.
Jason Calacanis says:
DIGG has not been sold yet, from what I understand BusinessWeek is basing the $60M number on someone telling […]
A few days ago, I wrote about the popularity of almost all blogs, or rather the lack of popularity. In that post, I gave some rough ways that a blog might be valued from an investment perspective - you certainly need more than a million visitors a week to be valued […]
Back on January 9th, I wrote that rumours were circulating that Apple was about to launch a true competitor to Microsoft Windows Media Center. Almost seven months have passed since then. So… I’m wondering if the new product is ready yet? Actually, I’m hearing on the grapevine that it is. If that’s […]