TechWinter

The last 24 hours of Tech news has been some of the most exciting in well months. Yeah every once and a while something exciting or ground breaking happens and today mostly wasn’t ground breaking but it was exciting.

Here is my summary with links of the last 24 hours for those not in the know and wanting to know where to get the source information.

Technorati turns 3. Three years on and the blogosphere is still benefiting from Technorati’s continued focus on Blog search. Yes some of the changes have ‘appeared’ to regress Technorati but all the whole it has improved its look, and feel, making it a much easier website for beginners. Happy Birthday!!
Also some have commented on its more ‘youthful’ appearance and the conclusion seems to be because MySpace users (12-18 crowd) now make up 30% of their searches. I am fine with that. Anything that makes Blogging more main stream is to our benefit. Grow the market as they say, not just your market share.

SocialText has released what they are referring to as the first commercially generated free and open source release of Wiki software. Huh! Well the details aren’t important really, suffice to say, its good enough for big corporations to pay lots of moola for and so it must be okay at the least for us non-enterprise types. If you are looking for some kind of review or comparison Troy Angrignon wrote one earlier this month.

Apple can thank (sarcasm) the FCC for another blunder and we can thank (joy) the FCC for telling us that Apple is getting ready to release a new ‘Mighty’ Mouse that is bluetooth enabled. Wicked news if you are a gadgetophial.

Google continues to get dragged through the mud because of its product decisions/strategy or lack thereof.  A perfect example is high flyer Michael Arrington’s blog TechCrunch moving to the attack over Google Talk’s poor performance in the IM product category - Instant Messaging and Trashing Google.  Good job Michael, its about time we (bloggers) started critisising Google enmass.  The honeymoon is over and its time for Google to get real.

Now for the finally as what can only be described as the perfect storm (for 24 hours) Scoble breaks wind on some of what has been going on in the tech world of late (from the grassroots, not Dow 100).  Now Scoble talks about lots of stuff from his family to Chinese human rights violations (okay maybe not, but….) but I think yesterday he really brought it  down with his post ‘The coming G/Y/M/A/e developer wars’

In the end the idea’s Scoble talks about are not necessarily new but he does a good job of giving us a look at things to come and how the world (tech world) is changing.  Its an important article that isn’t geeky (too much) to the point where the general message is lost.  I highly recommend it as a read.

Now for my news.  I have found three locations for my upcoming event in London, 11 September and so soon I will announce the location not just the date and times (7:30pm).  If you know me and haven’t recieved an invite its not because I have forgotten you its simply that those of you who came last time already expressed your desire to come again so when I bother you with an email I want you to get all the details once not 5 times like last time.

Oh one final note, AMD and ATI have announced their intent to merge.  hmmm, cool.  I just hope it continues to lead to cheap computers and maybe now even cheaper graphics cards.

Cheers,
Roger
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