May 09, 2008 04:10 PM - via Barbarian Group Rick
Friend of the Barbarians and
CMO of the forthcoming
Hello Health,
Jay Parkinson, MD wrote a
post the other day about Adobe submitting the
DNG Raw file format to the
ISO for a standard in Raw file storage.
I’m a rabid archiver, and this reminded me of an idea I had a year or two ago: a call for OS-level version migration. Much like time machine does OS level backups, there could be a background process that migrates old files to newer file formats via a set of adaptors. The gist, from my old LJ post:
But nonetheless, applications die, and despite our best efforts we’re gonna have files saved in .graffle or .keynote or .chat docs. What we really need is an OS level version migration system, similar to Time Machine, but which migrates documents, according to a user’s settings, to newer versions of the same documents. Of course it saves the original, Time Machine style, for posterity’s and provenence’s sake, but basically at any time a new version of some app comes out, the service would migrate them – maybe once a month, or whatever you set it to.
This really shouldn’t be that hard – iView and DeBabelizer have a myriad of converter information saved in them to open documents – it would be relatively trivial to develop a set of converters that migrate your applications according to your preferences. I would love to see this, more than anything, as a future feature of an OS. Just make it automatically work. The vast majority of people out there really don’t care that they are losing some original metadata when they migrate their files from MS Word 95 to MS Word X, and if you did care, or were an archivist, you could set your settings appropriately. And the system could, of course, migrate over the important metadata – date created and modied, original application version, etc.
You can read the whole old post
here. I believe in this so whole heartedly. I’d love to see apple pull it off within Time Machine, which I have become addicted to.
May 06, 2008 05:03 AM - via Barbarian Group Rick
This was interesting. It’s interesting to me how IV are indifferent to which of their ventures are successful, which bear fruit. I’m often that way in meetings, and people are always so disappointed. They want to see me, or us, excited, or passionate about one of the ideas. And I’m interested in seeing which one they’re most passionate about.
May 06, 2008 04:52 AM - via Ma.gnolia
This was interesting. It's interesting to me how IV are indifferent to which of their ventures are successful, which bear fruit. I'm often that way in meetings, and people are always so disappointed. They want to see me, or us, excited, or passionate about one of the ideas. And I'm interested in seeing which one they're most passionate about.
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May 06, 2008 03:56 AM - via Ma.gnolia
Dear god. Yeah, um... this is why I hate sports. I'm scared of their rabidness. Like... yeah.
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May 05, 2008 06:30 PM - via Barbarian Group Rick
I know it’s a bit too soon to speak, but is 24, 25 really a “black friday” for Yahoo!? 5 point premium over the start of this whole debacle?
And I, for one, think Jerry did the right thing. I know, I know, fiduciary duty, shareholder value, blah blah. He made his bed with shareholders and he has to live with it. But in my mind, Kenji summed it up pretty nicely yesterday when I said I was against the merger: “why because Microsoft makes things that are broken and confusing and no one wants, and Yahoo! makes cool shit that does useful things and are well made?”
Yeah. That.
Yahoo!’s a better company. It builds better stuff.
That being said, of course, it’s stock is woefully pathetic for how awesome the company is, and there’s no one to blame but the leadership. Maybe it’s time for someone else to take the reins. Of course, they tried that before and where did they get? And who would run it? Ideas?
May 05, 2008 06:04 PM - via Flickr
lizstless posted a photo:
Ha look @ Ben in his CNN shirt at Flash in the Can. Photo by Simon Conlin.
A Renewed Call for OS-Level Version Migration