The Need for More Drag and Drop
“One CMO said venture capitalists are reluctant to invest in products that don’t reflect their investment’s “added value.” In other words, “If it works too easily, where’s all that engineering I’m paying for?” Another retold this scenario: As a sales engineer walks out the door one day, he turns around and says to the engineering staff, “Don’t make it too easy, or I’ll be out of a job.”
Yes, you heard it from the horse’s mouth: We can’t make things easier, because our investors and …

Macintosh validates all i know about creating innovation
Andy Hertzfeld’s amazing ressource about the Macintosh project is always amazing for a digital history freak like me – today’s essay The Macintosh Spirit is about the spirit, values and goals of the team. It validates everything i’ve learned about innovation – worth a quick read…

Deconstructing the Google S-1 ipo filing
The Google IPO mania is here and it appears that Dan Gillmor’s hopes have come through. This seems as if it is a landmark public offering in terms of the company, the attittude and the way the ipo is done. Notes here as i get through the s-1 sec filing:
– the most untraditionel opening of a prospectus. A very strong message from the founders outlining their vision for the company and how they intend to do it their way
– shares have been split …

Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories
Amazing ressource of stories from the original Macintosh – must read for anyone interested in digital history.

Wired 12.01: The Click Heard Round The World
The basic introduction to Engelbart’s 1968 demo.

Worth noting:
Today is the 35th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s “Mother of all demos”.

Copenhagen Interactive. Or Birger Hauge 9.0 or whatever the version number is up to.

The Economist Technology Quarterly, September 6th 2003
The Economist on the invention and emergence of Ethernet.
“As with so many scientific breakthroughs, Mr Metcalfe’s ideas did not so much break new ground as take existing concepts and put them together in a new way.”
“One might argue that Mr Metcalfe’s biggest contribution to Ethernet was not inventing it, but getting Xerox to license it cheaply.”

And my pledge to Dave
Give the rest of the industry a way to move forward with RSS, a way to get the creative differences to agree on something uniting. Sit down with the 6-8 core developers and figure out what should be done.

Echo FUD
Never before have i seen a process with so much FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) in it as Echo. In a process worth the respect of any Bigco everyone is behind Echo allthough no one knows what it is. But all the the kids are gonna show the obnoxious old uncle who’s really in charge.
Yeah, Dave can be tough to work with at times, but give the man some well deserved credit for his work and his insight.
Let’s not create a new Engelbart – where great insight gets ignored …