test of blogstreet embedded java aggregator
October 26th, 2005
Looking for an old friend named David Korkosz, lived in Belmont MA, worked at Sun Micro..
October 25th, 2005
Somehow I’ve lost touch with an old friend, and he seems to have slipped under the Google radar as well, unless by some weird trick of my aging mind I am miss-spelling his name (shame if I am). He is an awesome, fun, smart guy, last I saw him was at a protest march on against the Sudan genocide, the day of Kofi Annan’s commencement speech at Harvard–more than a year ago.
If you are out there David, I’d love to hear from you! Anyone with info please write to me at websuperservices@yahoo.com
Thanks, bloggosphere members! I will report whether this works (might try Craig’s list too, and compare results..)
Open Source, Open Source Radio, Top Ten (open) Sources
October 11th, 2005
WGBH is an anchor radio broadcaster of Open Source with Chris Lydon..
Public Radio International is syndicating the web show..and is by far the most open of the radio syndicators..
Open Source Radio is a vibrant web community.
TopTenSources is creating an open community of ideas supported by a network of blog-based contributors living across the world observing and feeding in their best thoughts..
ummmm. much openness!
Google, Yahoo and the industry structure of the new web economy at the close of 2005. Ten trends that are changing the way we live, create, and invest.
October 8th, 2005
1. Strategic convergence has come to the new web: Business strategist Gary Hamel coined the term ”strategic convergence” for the industry situation where companies race to match each other point for point, feature for feature, and grow ever more similar over time. Google and Yahoo are rapidly converging toward each other–both have newsreaders, email, news, targeted ads, search, small business services such as site traffic analysis, etc. etc. etc.
2. Google and Yahoo have converged at the strategic level. Google and Yahoo are essentially identical clusters of services. The two companies have differing interfaces, but this is a difference at the level of style and the cognitive path for the user, not information architecture.
Google starts each experience with an open text-line-based search, and has directories of ways to specialize a given search. Once a search is specialized, it again usually continues with an open text-line-based search.
Yahoo shows you sample content as early as possible. Yahoo email shows you a summary of Yahoo news. The main Yahoo the front page is filled with celebrity photos, teasers for dating, news, weather and so on. When you are attracted to a particular category of content, one click takes you to more content. You are more or less continually awash in content.
Both styles have their advantages, but neither is in itself an innovation any more. Portal concept plus unifying user interface style is not original in 2005.
3. The portals including Google and Yohoo are pouring resources on innovation in the wider web community. What is much more interesting now is the industry structure that strategic convergence is creating. Given that the portals have no real differentiation at their core, portal-to-portal competition has shifted to a race to stay on top of and integrate innovation created in the wider web community. The interest and money and distribution power of the portals is providing food, fertilizer, and water for innovation in the wider community.
Innovation in the wider community is of two broad classes–the user-based do-it-yourself movement (DIY) and what I like to call “edge companies.”
4. DIY is going wild: On the one hand, individual innovation is expanding explosively in mash ups, hacks, and web services that nestle like birds and beeds into the ecosystems establshed by the big portals. Here is a cool example.
5. Edge-companies are taking root: Commercial-grade innovation is adding daily to a booming population of edge companies. These companies are being funded mostly by angels, and are designed to be purchased by Google or Yahoo (preferred) or Microsoft or AOL.
6. Light companies rule: In this new world of web services Google and Yahoo buy light companies. What is purchased are not armies of people but the allegiance of creative leaders, a bit of technology, and a user community attracted to some fascinating new web service–and associated web-based experience. What is purchased are not so much companies as that most valuable and intangle element of business success, market momentum.
7. VCs are business brokers not business builders: In some cases they move to acquisition from the angel stage, but more often they move through the VC community. However, the VC community is not adding much value other than as M&A advisors. They have connections both on the edge and within the portal purchasers, they can track the needs of the big players, and the emergence of solutions among the edge companies. They matchmake.
8. Industry structure centers on the relationships among big portals and edge companies: Industry structure is a favorite concept of academic business strategists, and industry economists, because it describes the environment that we create companies within. Industry environmental effects are very powerful, and yet sometimes unnoticed by those building companies. Today, we as a web community of investors, innovators, and portals have replicated the industry structure of internetworking ten years ago, where Cisco ruled sucking up innovative companies that were designed for it in partnership with venture capital firm Sequoia. Bay Networks, Lucent, Nortel and others were the also rans in the innovation acquisition game during that period, and have barely survived.
9. Life on the ege is fun: I like life on the edge. I like living in a time of bloom on the edge. It is going be interesting to see what germinates over the next few years…ok, the next few months..and whose gardens various seedlings become a part of..
10. Life at the center is about buying plants and populating your gardens, and attracting members. The cool jobs in the big portals for the next few years are going to be focused on acquisitions. Key success factors will be acquisition strategies (see AOL’s new moves in the past few weeks for an indication of some new ideas), deal-making, and post-merger integration of creative teams and the web services they have established, as well as the user communities that make them successful. Community members are fauna to a portal’s flora. “User community post-merger integration and development” will become a particularly valuable skill as portals mix, merge, and expand their communities of users.
not sure that you could possibly have missed this, but Google has launched a newsreader/aggregator
October 8th, 2005
Here is where you sign up. You know that you will! 
August Wilson is dead–the only good coming of his death is the harvest of wonderful obits
October 4th, 2005
Here from the Times (UK).
And many many others (courtesy Google News):
| Editorial: August Wilson captured black life in US Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - 2 hours ago August Wilson, a maestro of theater who did much of his mid-career work in St. Paul, was a courageous artist who brought authentic … |
| August Wilson Times Online, UK - 6 hours ago AUGUST WILSON was not only the finest black dramatist America has yet produced but a dramatist whom posterity may well rate alongside Eugene O’Neill and … |
| August Wilson (1945-2005) Village Voice, NY - 6 hours ago by Michael Feingold. August Wilson was born and raised in Pittsburgh. If you don’t know that, you’ve never seen one of his plays, virtually … |
| The Passing Of An American Giant CBS News - 7 hours ago August Wilson died yesterday in Seattle. I doubt most Americans have ever heard of him. Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. … |
| August Wilson, 1945-2005: Playwright gave voice to black … Seattle Post Intelligencer - 7 hours ago August Wilson, whose cycle of plays capturing the African American experience in the 20th century made him one of the country’s most admired playwrights, died … |
| Playwright August Wilson, a master storyteller, dies at age 60 Detroit Free Press, United States - 12 hours ago BY MARTIN F. KOHN. August Wilson, whose 10 plays about African-American life in the 20th Century, one for each decade, constitute … |
| Bard of St. Paul bows out San Jose Mercury News, United States - 13 hours ago BY DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA. August Wilson, who rose from a lowly scriptwriter at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul to become … |
| Playwright dies of cancer Newsday, NY - 14 hours ago BY BLAKE GREEN. August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled 20th century African-American life in soaring … |
| August Wilson, 60, won 2 Pulitzers as playwright San Jose Mercury News, United States - 14 hours ago By Mike Boehm. August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who sought to distill virtually the entire African-American experience … |
| Playwright chronicled experience of blacks in 20th century America San Francisco Chronicle, United States - 17 hours ago August Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who chronicled the 20th century African American experience in an epic series of 10 plays, died Sunday. … |
| Playwright detailed black experience in 20th century Chicago Sun-Times, United States - 18 hours ago BY MICHAEL KUCHWARA. NEW YORK — Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th century … |
| August Wilson, 60 Globe and Mail, Canada - 19 hours ago By MICHAEL KUCHWARA. New York — August Wilson was a master storyteller, a playwright who fashioned his tales of the black struggle … |
 | Leading US playwright Wilson dies BBC News, UK - 19 hours ago Pulitzer Prize-winning US playwright August Wilson, who wrote a series of landmark dramas about 20th Century life in black America, has died. … |
| Playwright August Wilson dies New York Daily News, NY - 19 hours ago Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, a high school dropout who told stories of the African-American struggle during the 20th century in such … |
| August Wilson, the poet of St. Paul, dies Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - 21 hours ago August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose celebrated epic cycle chronicled the lives of blacks in 20th-century America, succumbed to liver … |
| US playwright August Wilson dies ABC Online, Australia - 22 hours ago Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson has died of liver cancer in Seattle at the age of 60. Wilson disclosed his illness … |
| Pulitzer-prize winning US playwright Wilson dead Sify, India - 23 hours ago Los Angeles: The Pulitzer prize-winning American playwright August Wilson died on Sunday of liver cancer at a hospital in Seattle, said reports. … |
| Award-winning US playwright August Wilson dies ABC News - Oct 2, 2005 Oct 2, 2005 — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, whose cycle of plays chronicling 20th-century African-American life … |
| August Wilson, Theater’s Poet of Black America, Is Dead at 60 New York Times, United States - Oct 2, 2005 August Wilson, who chronicled the African-American experience in the 20th century in a series of plays that will stand as a landmark in the history of black … |
| August Wilson, the poet of St. Paul, dies Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Oct 2, 2005 August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose celebrated epic cycle chronicled the lives of a cohort of blacks in 20th-century America, succumbed … |
| Award-winning US playwright August Wilson dies ABC News - Oct 2, 2005 Oct 2, 2005 — SEATTLE (Reuters) - August Wilson, an award-winning playwright whose work focused on the lives of black Americans, died of liver cancer on … |
| Playwright August Wilson Dies FOX News - Oct 2, 2005 NEW YORK — Playwright August Wilson (search), whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America included such landmark dramas … |
| August Wilson, US Playwright on Black Segregation, Dies Bloomberg - Oct 2, 2005 Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) — August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright whose works chronicled a century of racial segregation … |
| Playwright August Wilson Dies of Cancer San Francisco Chronicle, United States - Oct 2, 2005 By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Writer. Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th … |
| Wilson’s plays about black experience San Jose Mercury News, United States - Oct 2, 2005 The 10 plays written by August Wilson chronicling the black experience in America in the 20th century, and the decade in which each was set. … |
| Playwright August Wilson dies of cancer San Jose Mercury News, United States - Oct 2, 2005 NEW YORK - Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America included such landmark dramas as “Fences … |
| August Wilson The Herald, UK - 2 hours ago Pulitzer prize-winning dramatist August Wilson was a master storyteller, who chronicled tales of the black struggle in twentieth-century United States through … |
| Landmark playwright won 2 Pulitzer Prizes Lexington Herald Leader, KY - 2 hours ago By Michael Kuchwara. Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the lives of blacks in 20th-century America included … |
| Honored Playwright August Wilson Dead at 60 Washington File, DC - 3 hours ago By Michael Bandler. Washington — American playwright August Wilson, who died of liver cancer October 2, once observed of his plays … |
| Plays chronicled black experience in 20th century philly.com, PA - 3 hours ago By Michael Kuchwara. Playwright August Wilson, 60, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America … |
| Playwright August Wilson Dies At 60 NBC4.TV, CA - 5 hours ago NEW YORK — August Wilson, a Tony Award-winning playwright who fashioned his tales of the black struggle in 20th-century America into a monumental 10-play cycle … |
| Writer is stilled, but not his song Calendar Live (subscription), CA - 5 hours ago By Charles McNulty, Special to The Times. His ending had the kind of stinging resonance we’ve come to expect from his plays. After … |
| Voice of voiceless will echo in theater forever Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription), GA - 5 hours ago If American theater is a forest of weeping willows, flowery perennials and scrubby undergrowth, then August Wilson was its giant sequoia: a strapping specimen … |
 | Playwright August Wilson Dies Vibe - 7 hours ago August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who composed plays that dealt with 20th-century African-American life, passed away from liver cancer on … |
| Broadway Dims Lights Oct. 4 To Honor Celebrated Playwright August … Broadway World, NY - 8 hours ago In honor of the passing of the great American playwright August Wilson, Broadway theatres will dim their lights Oct. 4. On par with … |
| August Wilson Dies All Headline News - 8 hours ago Seattle, WA (AHN) - Award winning playwright August Wilson dies Sunday at the age of 60 from liver cancer at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. … |
 | Playwright August Wilson’s ‘come and gone’ Earthtimes.org - 8 hours ago Pulitzer prize winner playwright August Wilson, famous for his plays revolving around the ails of 20th century African-Americans, passed away on October 2 at … |
| Acclaimed playwright August Wilson dies at 60 San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 9 hours ago BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS. (KRT) - August Wilson, who expanded the reach of African-American dramatic literature more so than any other … |
| Playwright August Wilson, a master storyteller, dies at age 60 TheNewsTribune.com (subscription), WA - 10 hours ago August Wilson, the celebrated American playwright who brought the black experience to the stage in award-winning dramas that fused deep commitment with fiery … |
| Playwright August Wilson Dies WNYC, NY - 11 hours ago NEW YORK, NY, October 03, 2005 — Playwright August Wilson has died. Wilson, who chronicled African-American experiences, announced … |
 | Legendary Playwright August Wilson Dead At 60 NY1, NY - 12 hours ago Wilson is best known for chronicling the black experience in 20th century America in a series of plays, including “Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The … |
| ‘Burgh playwright dies at 60 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 11 hours ago By By Alice T. Carter. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Hill District native August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicled … |
| Playwright August Wilson dies from cancer at age 60 Alameda Times-Star, CA - 11 hours ago By Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press. NEW YORK — Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience … |