Latest News from Mark Scrimshire

Apple May Well Have Just Created a Whole New Army of Mac Developers

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:15:00 EDT

If the iPhone is built on the core of Mac OS X and the development environment supports both iPhone and Mac OS X desktop applications how long will it be before we see a proliferation in Mac OS X applications? This has the potential to be a far bigger halo effect for Apple than the iPod.

Web 2.0 Takes a Hit and Nobody Noticed

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:45:00 EDT

Boeing has announced the shutdown of their airborne Wi-fi service, Connexion. It represents a subtle blow to Web 2.0 and gives us all pause for thought.

i-Technology Viewpoint: Windows Live – A Case of Reality Distortion?

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:30:00 EDT

Some commentators have taken Microsoft's entry in to the Web 2.0 world as a reason for spreading doom and gloom and predicting the annihilation of small, innovative developers. I disputed this prediction and agreed with entrepreneurs Jason Fried of 37 Signals and Sridhar Vembu of Zoho. The whole hype around Windows Live got me thinking whether there is some level of reality distortion going on.

Apple vs Microsoft – and the Cardinal Rules of the "Internet Singularity"

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:00:00 EDT

In considering the 'Internet Singularity,' Mark Scrimshire has been postulating a series of guidelines or rules. He has already written about the first; here he looks at the second and third rules.

The Internet Singularity: It's the Journey Not the Destination

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:00:00 EDT

I have been discussing the potential implications of what is being termed - by Microsoft Technical Fellow, Dr. Gary Flake - the Internet Singularity. The core of this concept is that the Internet and physical worlds will become more and more tightly coupled. This is already happening as the world around us gets 'instrumented.'

Web 2.0 Journal Exclusive Feature: Web 2.0 – Something New Under the Sun

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:45:00 EDT

Love it, or hate it, the Web 2.0 moniker is simply a rallying cry for the convergent and emergent development of new social architectures that Jeremy Geelan describes as The Perfect Storm of Web 2.0 in his recent column. There is something profound going on here.