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Welcome to Austin!

I’m posting this while sitting in the Hilton hotel bar courtesy their free wi-fi, and writing it via my Bluetooth keyboard attached to my Nokia 770 internet tablet — life couldn’t get more geeky!

I landed in Austin for SXSW Interactive around 10am local time, and then went to lunch with some incredibly talented folks: Will Pate, Anton Peck, Jonathan Snook, and Matthew Oliphant. Tonight a bunch of 9rules members (and others!) are getting together to play billiards at Buffalo Billiards, so if you’re reading this from Austin please feel free to stop by and get forced into a 9-ball match of wits with Paul Scrivens 🙂

Next Internet Steals Flock’s Website Design

My Bloglines feeds just blew up this evening with the finding of a new Valley dotcom incubator that plans to start 15 internet companies in the next 3 years. That company is called Next Internet, and I’d probably be more interested in them if they hadn’t completely, utterly, and unabashedly stolen the look, feel, and code behind Flock.com. The screenshots don’t lie:

Getting Real, Web 2.0 “Businesses”, Edgeio Secrets, Upcoming 9rules Plans

Sometimes I wish I had a linklog where I could post links and small bits of commentary, but because I don’t my 3 readers will have to suffer through this mishmash of the latest tech news in a regular blog entry 🙂

MacBook Pro Chokes On Photoshop Tests

In my last entry about Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptop, I noted that even though it’s a first generation machine, it’s probably not the best thing to buy if you spend your days in Photoshop painting pixels. The reasoning behind this is because Adobe Photoshop currently runs in emulation using the Rosetta emulator technology. Adobe has publicly given notice that Intel-native versions of their Creative Suite will wait until the next major version, so considering CS2 is still pretty new, I can’t imagine Adobe launching CS3 for more than a year — meaning another year until Photoshop runs at full speed. How bad is the emulation speed drop? Let’s find out.

Guarding The Gates: Web 2.0 Barriers To Entry

This post was spawned from a comment left at TechCrunch where the commenter had this to say about Meebo:

“Iâ€™m still curious how they plan to turn this into an actual business, and how they plan to deal with the non-existent barrier to entry in their space. I wish them the best of luck!”

I responded to that comment with this:

“Matt – the barrier to entry isnâ€™t trivial by any means. Interoperating with the major IM services (since they update their connection protocols often and like to lock-out 3rd parties) is a major pain, so these guys deserve all the credit theyâ€™re given.”

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