{"id":2080,"date":"2003-12-31T04:59:48","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T20:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/31\/eweek-best-and-worst-of-2003\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:08:55","slug":"eweek-best-and-worst-of-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/31\/eweek-best-and-worst-of-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"eWeek best and worst of 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

eWeek’s Steve Gilmore just posted his round up of the Best and Worst of Messaging & Collaboration in ’03<\/a>. Apple or Mac-dependent software got no less than three mentions in the “best of” category:<\/p>\n

\n iSight\/iChatAV<\/strong> — Apple finally does IP videoconferencing right. Cleverly embedded inside the Mac’s new Panther OS X operating system and its iChat instant messaging client, iChatAV leverages your AOL Buddy list for point-to-point videoconferences around the world. The secret sauce: sophisticated noise-canceling algorithms that erase distracting echoes and eliminate the need for headphones.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n Hydra<\/strong> — An OS X open-source project that allows networked sharing of document creation and editing. Another Mac technology that leverages the powerful Rendezvous system service, Hydra was used to great effect at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference to generate real-time transcripts of conference sessions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n NetNewsWire<\/strong> — My RSS weapon of choice on my platform of choice, the Mac. Once you try it, you’ll fall in love with it. And I’ll stay married to it as long as author Brent Simmons continues to add information router features — persistent storage, embedded browser rendering, enclosures, a plug-in API for services from Technorati, search engines and rich media renderers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “worst of” list, while fairly solid, didn’t catch my eye quite as much until I got down to item number seven…<\/p>\n

\n Microsoft firing of contract blogger<\/strong> — This poor soul made the mistake of posting a picture that suggested something other than an official Microsoft policy position. Someone should have fired his boss for putting the lie to the warm and cuddly notion that the “new” Microsoft is listening — watching — Big Brother style — is more like it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had to laugh. I’m never, ever, ever<\/em> going to live this down!<\/p>\n

Forget about all this selling your soul to the devil crap — he’s so incompetent, he couldn’t even get a wish to be “famous” right, and I ended up with “infamous” instead. Can I get a refund on this deal?<\/p>\n

(via Scoble<\/a><\/cite>)

Forget about all this selling your soul to the devil crap — he’s so incompetent, he couldn’t even get a wish to be ‘famous’ right, and I ended up with ‘infamous’ instead. Can I get a refund on this deal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[460,118,13,65],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-15-minutes-of-fame","tag-apple","tag-life","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}