Per Kleven

Just testing some stuff, please ignore ;)

"You'll notice, for example, that I didn't include Sun in my list of vital companies. That's not so much because Sun can be defined in terms of the others but that Sun is simply doomed. Their software isn't better, their hardware isn't better, and they can't see themselves as anything but a maker of hardware or software, so my simple recommendation is that they take the rest of their cash and try entering a hot new field like -- say -- space flight. Or making really fine cakes. The world will always need fine baked goods. Or just give it back to the shareholders. Really"

Cringely has more

Dave doesn't like the web 2.0 meme. Neither do I. I think he's right on the spot with this one.

Testping

After a too long downtime, Bloggrevyen, our popular pinging service for norwegian weblogs is alive and kicking. It's got a facelift, and we have more improvements planned for the nearest future. We've also fixed a couple of bugs related to different charsets in the RSS feeds.

It might be some snags here and there, because the system has just been moved from windows to linux.

Anyways, enjoy :)

Scoble: "More than 15 million spaces have been created since opening in December. 15 million!"

With integrated ads for spaces on MSN messenger, IMHO that's as impressing as dumping 150 billion fake dollar bills over NYC and 15 million of them get picked up.

I still haven't stumbled upon one single spaces site. And I'm quite a bit around.

Sig has a great roundup on tags. I find it "hard" to explain why tags are good and hierarchical structures are bad. Sig obviously doesn't ;)

Matt at WordPress is trying to pay his rent.

This is just a test....

Edward Cone writes

The good guys and girls at SixApart has released this comprehensive guide to prevent comment spam.

A new review of Microsofts blogging tool, now launched, called MSN Spaces.

Here's an old review while it was still in beta in Japan.

Phil Ringnalda reviews Microsofts new blogging tool. Some nitpicking, but worth a read.

A good, insightful article about business blogging can be found here.

Maybe the best i've ever read in my entire life:

"I could go insane with the web page behind the discussion board. First I could make it 110% xhtml 1.1 + CSS. Heck, why not xhtml 2.0 just to be extra addictive-personality-disordered. Then I could neatly format all the html code so it's perfectly indented. But the html is generated by a script, and the script has to be indented correctly so that it's perfect too, and a correctly indented ASP script does not, by defintion, produce correctly indented HTML. So I could write a filter that takes the output of the ASP script and reindents it so that if anybody does a View Source they would see neatly indented HTML and think I have great attention to detail. Then I would start to obsess about all the wasted bandwidth caused by meaningless whitespace in the HTML file, and I'd go back and forth in circles between compressed HTML and nicely laid out HTML, pausing only to shave."

- Joel Spolsky

Some good and not-so-good ideas on how to make some green from your blog.

Here's all the details about Google's forthcoming IPO. I Guess.

I like this site. A lot. But it's hard to make the switch from Google. But I've switched from Yahoo, Altavista, HotBot and a dozen others. So I guess it can be done.

The question is: Why would I make the switch ?

Since I'm co-founder and CTO of BlogSoft, some people have demanded my presence
in the blogosphere. So to prove that I'm eating my own dogfood not only
in my internal blogs, here I am. Whether you like it or not.