• Articles by Michael Schrage

    Posted on December 7, 2003

    I’ve been reading Serious Play by Michael Schrage, and have found it extremely stimulating thus far. The book explores the basic “what role does the prototype play in innovation” type questions and the harder questions of how to manage a prototyping portfolio and how the various tradeoffs in prototyping can... [Read More]

  • Open Source Expo

    Posted on December 7, 2003

    For those of you in the Bay Area, there’s an Open Source Expo at the San Francisco Airport Marriott this Thursday (that’s Dec 11, 2003). It’s pretty cheap considering the speakers they have lined up. And I’m very happy to see that they have both technical and business tracks. I’m... [Read More]

  • Maintenance Mode for Linux 2.4

    Posted on December 6, 2003

    There’s an article over at kerneltrap.org about the note that Marcelo sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Seeing as 2.6 is starting to get pretty stable, after the next point release 2.4 will go into maintenance mode. That really just means that 2.4 will only get fixed if there... [Read More]

  • Image Recognition to Get URL into Cameraphones

    Posted on December 6, 2003

    There’s an interesting article over at Picturephoning about using 2D barcodes and image recognition to get URLs into cameraphones. I’ve heard of projects something like this before, but most were companies looking to use their patented technology to make hordes of cash. I’m very happy to see that the project... [Read More]

  • Content Management System Issues

    Posted on December 5, 2003

    There’s an article at the Sydney Morning Herald explaining some of the issues with current content mangement systems. It caught my attention cause I’ve seen much the same thing. I’ve actually been working with a guy who implements websites as part of his consulting gigs, and we’ve been trying to... [Read More]

  • Lessig Response to SCO Letter

    Posted on December 5, 2003

    This entry in the lessig blog presents an analysis of the open letter from Darl McBride, CEO of SCO. SCO has been slogging it’s way through an inane lawsuit claiming that Linux is based off stolen code that SCO owns the rights to. Like most news, it’s kinda funny, mostly... [Read More]

  • Intellectual Property and Open Source

    Posted on December 5, 2003

    This article at the Christian Science Monitor provides an excellent summary of the open source movement and potential ramifications with regard to intellectual property rights. I think the article does a great job of calling out the underlying issues, such as: [Read More]

  • Zoomable User Interface

    Posted on December 5, 2003

    There’s an article over at TheFeature about zoomable user interfaces, or ZUI for short. Some of the concepts given there are interesting, such as the calendar view that leaves the context of the month view around the edges of the screen when zoomed in to day view. Some of the... [Read More]

  • Cell Phone Spycam

    Posted on December 4, 2003

    There’s a post at picturephoning about a Symbian app that allows for remote commands to request an image from the handset. One possible app is finding your phone if you’re lost, but there are lots of others. The page for the app mentions using it to check the weather at... [Read More]

  • Printing Camphone Pictures

    Posted on December 4, 2003

    There’s a post at picturephoning.com about the Kodak kiosks in CVS stores offering printing from cell phone images. I’m not sure about market numbers, and I have no clue about the actual implementation of the system, but taken in the abstract I think this sounds like a great idea. Everyone... [Read More]