Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled

May 2007 - Posts

• May

  31

  2007

  Aloha, Mahalo.com

  I found this arrangement in my feed reader mildly amusing this morning: Fred Wilson's post on Mahalo.com directly above a post by Brad Feld entitled "The Computer Should Be Doing the Work for Us". (They are unrelated entries). Mahalo.com is, of course, a people-powered search engine that Jason Calacanis... Posted May 31 2007, 10:46 AM by Tim with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Web 2.0, Innovation, Google, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Social Behavior, NextNY

• May

  25

  2007

  Microsoft Silverlight

  A lot of people are very excited about Silverlight , the technology that was formerly known as WPF/E. Jesse says it will give Flash a real run for its money because of a better video story (emphasis in original). Unlike Flash, Silverlight (the new name) will support DRM, it supports the industry standard... Posted May 25 2007, 02:30 PM by Tim with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Software Development, Innovation, Microsoft, C#, .NET, Video, Programming, DRM

• May

  25

  2007

  RIM announces Application Suite for Windows Mobile

  Some pretty big news in April that I never got around to posting: RIM announced the Blackberry Application Suite for Windows Mobile ( via ). RIM plans to begin offering the new software application suite later this year for select devices based on Windows Mobile 6. Once installed, the software will provide... Posted May 25 2007, 06:33 AM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Technology, Gadgets, Microsoft

• May

  24

  2007

  Why I chose the Dash

  My aging Blackberry 8700 was just getting too much for my pockets, and I needed to upgrade. I was debating between the Dash and the Pearl and decided on the Dash. Why? For starters, T-Mobile released the Windows Mobile 6 update , which adds (among many other things), HTML e-mail support. This is really... Posted May 24 2007, 05:14 PM by Tim with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Gadgets, Personal

• May

  24

  2007

  On finishing law school... and what's next

  It's finally starting to sink in that I'm done with law school. After nearly 4 years, I received my J.D. on Sunday as part of Fordham's 100th graduation class. Because we were a "special" class, commencement was held in the Metropolitan Opera next to the school, instead of the usual location at the MSG... Posted May 24 2007, 04:25 PM by Tim with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Law School, Personal

• May

  01

  2007

  Arguing Intelligently about Copyright

  Dare has a great rant on copyright . A key purpose of giving authors and other content creators exclusive rights to their intellectual property is to enable them to be rewarded financially from their works for some time before allowing these creations to become "owned" by society. This is supposed to... Posted May 01 2007, 10:36 AM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Technology, Intellectual Property, Rants, Copyright

• May

  01

  2007

  Be positive in your dialogs

  Raymond says that dialog boxes are not the place for logic puzzles . I ran across a configuration dialog box that had the item "Turn off Feature X". This is a negative-sense checkbox, which turns your dialog box into a logic puzzle. Checkboxes should be phrased positively. "Use Feature X". (The only... Posted May 01 2007, 09:00 AM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Technology, Software Development, Design