Apple’s Ping: First Thoughts

Posted: 2 September 2010 by Kathy E. Gill in Media, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Can established software giants — Microsoft, Apple, even Google — get “the social web”? From Microsoft, we have the ignored “social” tab on the Zune; from Google, the death of Wave (less than a year) and lackluster response to Buzz.

Apple joined the foray yesterday. I asked on Twitter if we really need a new social network, a niche one for music:

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What Is edgesuite.net?

Posted: 1 September 2010 by Kathy E. Gill in Web/Tech

I noticed that the archive of the video stream of today’s Apple press conference has a “non-Apple” URL:

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event

Who/what is “edgesuite.net”, I thought.

Whois wasn’t very helpful, so I poked around a little further on my Google search results. Here’s the answer: Read the rest of this entry »

365 Project : Moved

Posted: 28 August 2010 by Kathy E. Gill in 365project

I’m moving the 365 Project to 365.kegill.com.