There’s Life Left in the Valley. Don’t listen to Larry Ellison. If history is a guide, the seeds to the next boom are being sown now.
“I seem to be the only person who thinks this, but I believe the Valley’s progress over the years has been built not on success but on the rubble of failure, and we just created a lot of rubble,” says Paul Saffo”
HiNC - The History of Nordic Computing. Would love to be there.
PLATO People: A History Book Research Project
“Before Microsoft. Apple. The Web. AOL. The Internet. Before everything, there was PLATO: the first online community. The network that time forgot. The birthplace of instant messaging, chat, MUDs (multi-user dungeons), screen savers, flat-panel plasma displays, one of the first spell-checking/answer-judging mechanisms, and countless other innovations.”
Google Daily Menus
Follow what the dear people who are bringing us Google are eating today. Menus created and prepared by their world famous former chef for the Grateful Dead, Charlie Ayers.
Jerry Michalski’s brain is back online
It’s been offline for a year or two - will be interesting to dig through what has been added…
Nytimes: In Searching the Web, Google Finds Riches [requires free registration]
Your standard profile on Google, but updated with some noteable rumored figures:
- number of servers 54,000 with 100,000 processors and 261,000 harddrives.
- eight data centers around the globe
- revenue 2002 $300 million. projected revenue 2003 $750 million or more.
- gross profit margins 30%
Dan Gillmor’s eJournal - Help Me With ‘Making the News’
Help Dan write his book about the intersection of technology and journalism.
Ross Mayfield: Birth of an Industry
Nice coverage of the computer history museum event about the birth of Visicalc with presentations by Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, Mitch Kapor and Charles Simonyi.
Digital Aboriginal
“Once upon a time people moved freely in a world held together not by roads or wires but by impressions, instinct, stories and images. Highly evolved intuition allowed them to thrive in a challenging environment.
The social systems of these nomadic people are not only advanced, but remarkably suited to today’s turbulent, imaginative economy.
In fact, the electronic landscape is plunging us into a way of thinking and connecting that has more in common with our aboriginal ancestors than how we lived even a few decades ago.”