My interviews are short and sweet. Now if I had time to sit down with Vint Cerf the father of the internet (sorry, Al Gore, he really IS the father!), I think it would have to expand somewhat. For now, Technically Speaking does the “5 questions and a cloud of data bytes” and on to the next article.

What a dork. The judge who “rules” that deep linking is illegal. I mean seriously, how does this judge think the internet was built? If we can’t link, then you are killing off the current internet as we know it today. I don’t believe that government has ANY PLACE making rulings about what goes on within the internet.

Such rulings are a TOTAL waste of our tax dollars.  Why do judges get involved in something they know very little about? It’s obviously all about the money folks. That has to be the ticket here. For a judge to “rule” that it’s illegal to do deep linking is quite foolish. It has no bearing on the society that judges are suppose to be ruling over. What it does is basically make the internet more of a society. It makes a mockery out of goverment in general.

Technically Speaking, this society called the internet does not want government to be involved in what goes on here. As the article states, if you do NOT want your data linked to another site, then stay the F off the internet! Post your thoughts elsewhere.

exoPlatform is another webOS. I blogged just yesterday about wanting to install a webOS on my old laptop that is independent of having a OS. A true webOS and not just a webtop. It will becoming soon, but this one looks nice for a webtop that is currently being described in 2006 as webOS.

webOS will become a true OS in 2007. For now give the company exoPlatform a look. I like the way the bottom works just like MacOS.

I believe the player (startup) that takes over in all of the webOS dollars will be the one that reads this blog. Just kidding! You don’t have to read the Technically Speaking blog, but what I mean is, the one that rules in 2007 will be the one that makes webOS a true OS.

This means

- a nice small footprint bootable OS such as a custom Linux

- then booting right into the webOS that is already there

Simple right? Well it’s probably a bit more complex, but not really. The technology is all there, and the first company that can provide this, I will load it up on my old laptop to check it out. I believe the first company that does this, will really grab most of the undecided “whether to go Mac or PC” market that is currently out there. That in itself is a gigantic market of people. Another market that will be tapped is the old PC and old Laptop market. That market alone should be big enough to entice some of these companies to get a move on for 2007.

Technically Speaking, it’s a wide open market out there. webOS is starting to come into it’s own, and could be OWNing their piece of the OS market in 2007; or at the very least be in a better position next year at this same time.

That is a question that I also asked Gabe the other day. He says it is all algorithm that he wrote and tweaks. This Scobleizer blog post does question it. I love the update part too. Makes you really wonder though. Yes, Gabe also told me that he is on vacation this week. So maybe his algorithm is some sort of borg going wild? hahaha! :)

I had it on a good source a few days back that Dell was in big big trouble. I did not run with the story, as I wanted more details. Apparently my source was really good. I do apologize to him for not running it right away (about 2 days ago is when I heard about this). My issue with this, is that the same guy that Dell just hired basically helped to kill off all the old guard TWA employees here in STL. I guess once a loser CEO, always a loser, and this time a CFO. Nice.

I feel your pain Dell, but that is how it is in corporate America folks. If you are a CEO and F-things up, guess what? There is always a company out there stupid enough to rehire your dumb a$$ and give you a bonus to boot. That is what is WRONG with corporate America. These people should NEVER be employed again. Guess what? This is the land of opportunity, and screw up CEO’s and executives get rehired over and over again to do what? Yes, that’s right people - screw over the common worker once again.

Technically Speaking, this is why India, China, and the European nations are passing America by. It’s because big corporations never learn – leave the loser CEO and executive to go flip burgers or something. It is not because the worker does poor work, or asks for too much salary. It is because the companies that have outsourced hire expensive CEO’s and executives that have a track record of F-ing things up. They are worthless pieces of you know what that can’t figure out their way out of a wet paper sack even with directions. Do not let the corporations lie to you the worker. It is not because they have paid you the worker too much money.

This does not bode well for Dell.

flip.com is a new all girl social network. That means allot of the tech people are going to have to rely on the girl blogger and female story breaker on this one. Apparently 200,000 have been invited. I hope to hear more on this as to what is on the inside of this social network real soon.

I’ll post it again, since it seems like I did a bit of snafu on the AOL post. Haha – I’m glad that at least a couple of readers were paying attention. So once again, let’s roll out the internal link and show that I did talk about this hours before it showed up above.

I know allot of people think that it’s spamming or whatever, but there are those that believe that this blog has no relevance. I do report on and sort of I guess “break” stories every now and again. All I can say is – keep reading this blog. You never know when Rex Dixon has the scoop on everyone else. I know allot of the readers have a very very short memory. Almost like a goldfish or something. Be advised the above link to the internal was done like less then 1 month ago!

TheChipLab is where you can design your own casino grade custom chip. Now too bad this site didn’t time their review for say a month or more ago. These would make great Christmas gifts, or to be Technically and Politically correct – Holiday Gifts!

Venice Project, is the new p2p video site that everyone went ga-ga over yesterday. I’m not really too excited about it. It looks cool and all, but I have a pretty good idea that there is something even more exciting around the corner.

Here is a list of the domains that digg has banned. Have no fear, 2007 will be a year of where digg is going to find some competition I’m sure. Not saying that digg will die or anything, but there will be alternative’s to digg in the coming year. I guarantee it.

Say that really fast 20 times. In fact, just remember that. Digg is doing one good thing. It’s opening up the way for other online services to do the same exact thing they are, but only better and with less bias.

I feel bad for this person. Cheer up, new services will be around in 2007 that will address your needs online!

According to the official records of the US Patent office – Microsoft owns the patent on RSS. Not Google. Not Yahoo. Not even the blogging platform I use, WordPress. Yes, the men and women in Redmond own RSS.

Just as this blogger was thinking, when is Microsoft going to start charging for RSS? Technically Speaking, I wonder why they haven’t yet.

Google made it’s move today with a $1 billion stake in AOL. It was only a matter of time. We all knew it was coming. AOL is on it’s last legs, and Google today has moved to take a 5% stake in the company.

This bodes well for AOL, and it’s user base. It won’t be dying in 2007. I would just be prepared to say GOOOG! I was thinking that it could have been a nice YAHHHOOOO! But looks like it will be GOOOOOG. The new chant of the AOL diehards.

Technically Speaking, I have been waiting and watching, and Google made a good move before someone else did.

Have you heard about the news about WebOS? More specifically GoogleOS? I am sure you may have read it, write? This is a nice speculation article that was written on the possibility of Linux(s) Torvalds working at Google to help with Google OS. I discussed the webOS thing awhile back, and I think that 2007 will be a year that more of the WebOS that are currently out there will begin to establish a foothold.

I started talking about WebOS about a month or so ago. The last time I mentioned it was right here, and the blog post was talking about some company called eyeOS. The above article mentions YouOS, which is the most “Linux like” webOS.

GoogleOS is inevitable to appear on the market in 2007. I mean, seriously, if you believe otherwise then the article about Linus joining Google is all TRUTH! Technically Speaking, I for one believe that 2007 is the right time and the right place in history for WebOS to really take off and get a foothold on small portable devices as well as our main machines. It will also lengthen and extend the lifespan of some older gear.

Personally, I have an old laptop that is currently gathering dust in an upstairs closet that could be easily serviced to be a WebOS testing platform. Are there any WebOS entrepreneur’s ready for Rex Dixon to give their OS a spin? Let me know. I think the number of “old laptops” that could be made into WebOS machines or more like useable computers or laptops again would probably astound people.

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blinkx, I’ve more then likely mentioned them here before, but since my schedule has been rather busy lately, everything that was news today – has already been covered for the day. I was poking around and ran across some information on blinkx. I remember them, either from reading about them on another site, or actually blogging here about them. No, I’m not going to look, as if it’s here, just search for it.

Now one place I did read about them today of course was right here. This new part of the OmNet as I term it, really covers the video angles well. I think that I’m going to have to keep checking in on blinkx. Even though they may never beat YouTube, I think they have an interesting video product. Who is going to beat YouTube? Who is going to make YouTube and others obsolete or so “yesterday“?

Technically Speaking, stay tuned to 2007, I think everyone is in for nice surprise.

Here is a nice little story that was buried today. Visto the owner of three patents concerning mobile e-mail has sued and won $7.7 million. This was originally done months earlier by a jury. In a U.S. District court, Judge T. John Ward of Texas, has ordered Seven Networks to pay the $7.7 million in damages.

Now when I said everyone “steals” something from someone else on the internet, the big guys take it one step too far I think. I don’t LITERALLY mean steal intellectual property. I mean come on guys, what kind of dork thieves are you? You are not suppose to LITERALLY steal! You borrow, you enhance, you shape and form it and make it your own.

If it is something you need to really have to make your product “go“, then you need to pay a little money in licensing fees, or buying the rights to use it. You do not just go and steal it. That is so very wrong on many terms that I can’t even think about how your parents would have treated this. Woodshed possibly if you are old enough? Leather strap across your backside perhaps? Yes, in many circles of society they say “child abuse”. It appears to be more part of parental neglect in the case of the people that authorized the stealing of the intellectual property of Visto.

This of course isn’t over yet, as Visto has also gone after companies such as RIM, Microsoft, and Good Technology Inc. The company Seven Networks also plans to go back to court in June. The original award of the jury trial, which the judge above upheld, was $3.6 million. That means – if you are wrong, pay the fine and do the time! The new judge tacked on interest and other fees. Do the math.

Technically Speaking, I don’t think too many companies out there today get it. Ethics, it’s a whole subject that should be gone over. No, I’m not teaching that class tonight.

It is quite strange to me that all of sudden my blog is basically cut off from the rest of the world. No one seems to be answering my inquiries as to “Why?”. I figure instead of engaging in a conversation of disagreement, the people that be in power decided to just cut me off. No explanation what so ever.

Let me explain something. The comments area below any post of mine is where you can post your negative views on my views. Mainly, if you disagree with something I wrote, please go ahead and air your displeasure.

To just out of the blue cut me off, for no reason and no explanation just proves one thing and one thing only. Total lack of respect for others. Your lack of respect for other people is quite disturbing. You seem to think all it takes is cutting someone off to make them stop blogging the truth.

Well there is where you are wrong. The choice by the powers that be is to no longer link my blog. I am still blogging my opinions on the top stories of the day. One thing I ask, “Could you man up and at least e-mail me your point of view?” I mean if you can’t even “man up” in the comments, do I really expect a e-mail with an explanation any time soon?

Technically Speaking, I do not expect any reponse from the people that are in power. That is fine, just next time you disagree with something, the comments below are for you to air that out. That is why they are there. Comments – leave yours now if you wish to disagree with anything that I have written.