Craig’s Musings

Laurence picked up on this earlier today: EMC’s D6 Web Services Challenge. Whether you’re an established partner or an up-and-coming consultancy of one or more individuals, you’re invited to take the challenge and submit your entries in the next couple of months (i.e. by 9/28/2007 per contest rules). First prize is $50,000, with total prizes  [...]

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A few months back I posted my review of The Starbucks Experience. At the time I raised a concern to Starbucks: when you “outsource your experience” to someone else (e.g. to grocery stores such as Safeway or Albertsons), you run the risk of damaging your brand. The people running the Starbucks kiosk are employees of [...]

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Yesterday Laurence talked about the challenges that a multitude of interfaces can present a solution builder, specifically in the context of ECM, and today Billy added his thoughts. While both posts seem to be focused more on visual interfaces (UI) than non-visual interfaces, the concerns raised apply to interfaces in general.
Here are my thoughts:

I very [...]

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Today Tim Bray reported that Atom is done. This is good news for the Web, and this is an important opportunity for ECM vendors.
I appreciate it when those involved in a standard take the time to share a concise vision for why the standard matters. According to Tim Bray, Atom’s raison d’être is “Publish” Everywhere. (Or, [...]

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The May 2007 issue of IEEE Spectrum includes “The Technology of Text,” fascinating article about the art and science of typography and supporting display technologies such as Microsoft’s ClearType.
While a quick Google of “cleartype vista” indicates that there is no universal warmth to Windows Vista’s ClearType support, I enjoy reading text in Vista more than I [...]

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