Comments on: What's with Steve Gillmor?

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:48:00 +0000

Always good quality info from this site!

By: kenny

kenny — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:22:35 +0000

Even eBay dropped Passport after awhile…

By: markjen

markjen — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:16:24 +0000

Hi Stephen, thanks for the tip! I’ll have to check out the other voices ZD Net is hosting.

Hi Dave, true, Google Accounts currently only logs you into Google services (I suppose I could argue that Passport only logged you into Microsoft services with the exception of ebay ). I’m not going to speculate on the future of Google Accounts, but I think it’s an extremely interesting offering to watch…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:28:31 +0000

Re: Google accounts vs. MSN Passport

Google accounts are very different from MSN Passport: Passport is used to log into sites from many different providers, like eBay. AFAIK, Google accounts only get you into the services they offer, and even then, not all of them: Orkut and Blogger are not automatically included when you get a GMail (or Google groups etc) account.

By: Stephen Howard-Sarin

Stephen Howard-Sarin — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:48:12 +0000

Mark,

So you don’t like Steve Gillmor’s stuff? Lucky for you that ZDNet is now publishing the work of 20 tech-centric bloggers — and only three are staff writers.

We realized a year ago that ZDNet should bring together the best, indepdent and passionate voices about technology and its impact on business. That’s what we’re doing with our blogs.

Gillmor is one of those voices. We also have Berlind, Blankenhorn, Carroll, Farber, Gardner, Gottsman, Jablonski, Koman, MacManus, Manasco, McKendrick, Moskalyuk, Murphy, Ou, Padilla, Piquepaille, Shaw, Turner, Wainewright and Windley.

Set up and RSS feed and enjoy!

By: John Clifford

John Clifford — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:24:27 +0000

I agree that Gilmor’s writing is vapid and full of fluffy prognostications. When Scoble addresses the supposed “dying” client software business like Office and Microsoft web 2.0 type iniatives the MSFT bashers like Gilmor never seem to address the specifics. Then you throw in Ebay/PayPal/ Skype and Google’s expaning empire and Yahho and MSN and who really is the ” evil empire” is not so clear. Perhaps the issue of evil empire or who will be eclipsed by the next big thing is not so important as specific information as to who is bringing out applications and services that “thrill ” users like the ability of hurricane victims to zoom in on their houses in Google’s Keyhole satellite view or MSN’s Earth. How about some real world details to back up your big picture hallucinations ?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:40:48 +0000

Twernt has been writing Steve Gillmor translations recently

http://www.twernt.net/

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:59:37 +0000

Mark,

Not to say that you aren’t a bit unduly harsh sometimes (okay, much of the time :D), but in this particular case… after reading both of the referenced Gillmore articles, all I could say was “HUH!?!”

You’re right. Others could / can do much better. At least they’d write articles with a (discernible) point. Even if they had to use Gmail as their word processor

By: markjen

markjen — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:56:04 +0000

Hi Chooky, ah that might be true, but it just makes the situation even sadder. I can’t believe that tech writing is devolved to a state like this… who are these guys’ bosses anyways?

From an integrity standpoint, if I read stuff like this, I’d get out the pink slips…

By: Chooky

Chooky — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:51:06 +0000

You have to understand how these guys think. They don’t want to be left out of predicting the next big technology transition. Web 2.0 is the new prediction du jour. Everyone is writing an article on it so they can point back in 5 years and say, “see I told you so”. Unfortunately all these so called ‘big picture’ guys inevitably get it wrong. And this one they will get wrong. I’ve been hearing this web 2.0 crap for 15 years now. So what they do is write anything and everything whether it makes sense or not and inevitably get 1 or 2 article correct and then speak endlessly about those great predicitons. I mean take a look at Cringely. I’ve been saying “what’s with Cringely?” since the 80s