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Express – Visual Basic Alright, I admit, I’m tempted. The new Visual Basic plus development environment, free (as in beer) to download today. Should I take a look? See how hard it’d be to translate SdiDesk into it? Things to consider, positive and negative : – It’s .Net 2.0 only, so part of MS’s forced…

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What’s going on with SdiDesk? bodnotbod writes : ‘Q: I would love to see section editing like they have at Wikipedia. I’ve just started working on my first ultra long page and am finding it very unweildly. One work-around would be for me to break the page up into smaller pages but for the task…

Who the hell are Wikisphere? Whatever! They get $5.25 million dollars in VC

Damn, this looks cool. Thinking in Code: RubyPad

Sad scene on SdiDesk Wiki: RecentChanges as the wiki-spammers catch up with us. WikiMinion is on the case, but this is fucked. I’m coming round to the view that UseMod / OddMuse is no longer sufficient to keep a public wiki open, we need something that allows proper automatic rollback and elimination of spam.

Seth Godin : This guy buys old magazines and sells them online, one page at a time! Seth’s Blog: Understanding the Long Tail

When SdiDesk grows up, does it want to be MindRaider? Interesting question. MR looks pretty advanced. And taking advantage of a lot of Java libraries. I’m not sure I see myself wanting to compete directly with this. Expect SdiDesk to stay more closely wiki-oriented : emphasizing ease of use and the pages with concrete names.

Good hard look at the economics of being a MicroISV.

On an impulse, I just created a new blog which may be of interest to readers of this one. Platform Wars is a place for my comments on the ongoing struggle between different web and software companies. This isn’t meant to be a generic tech. news blog. (Of which there are more than enough.) I’ll…