I had a great conversation with Darrell Huntsman, VP for New Lexis Innovation Initiatives, yesterday along with a demonstration of the new LexisNexis for Microsoft Office product. This is ‘Phase I’ of Lexis’ two phase project to rebuild their legal research product ‘from the ground up.’ The second phase will be the ‘New Lexis’ online
After years of listening to my friends tell me why they “looooovvveee” their Macs, and how it is “sooooo” much easier to use than a PC, and that I’m an idiot (not a Mac/PC issue apparently), I think I’m finally feeling some empathy for them. Not because I’m going to rush out after 20 years
One of the best stories I have from my old mainframe programmer/analyst days in college was working with my friend Ming Fan, who was a foreign student working as a Grad Assistant in the same department. One day he leaned over and shouted the following joke over the loud rumble of the big blue mainframe
I’ve seen a lot of comments on “what is next for Web 2.0” in the past few months, but most of those jump ahead to the “Web 3.0” stage of Cyberdyne’s Skynet artificial intelligence stage. I wanted to bring the discussion back to a less scary (well, at least not “end of the world” scary)
I mentioned in my 10 predictions for 2010 that both Westlaw and Lexis would have new interfaces for their research products by the end of the year. In reality, I was kind of hedging my bets on this one because I actually knew these changes were already coming. Last month I was talking with a
Now that I’ve had a weekend to play with two different variations of the new Chrome OS (reviewed here), I have to say that I’ve got a lot of mixed feelings about Google’s attempt to jump into the operating system arena. One of the feelings I felt this weekend was completely unexpected —
Last week, Toby and I dove into the clean waters that is know as Google Wave. I say that it is the “clean” waters of Google Wave because most people I know have barely stuck a toe in – and most of them immediately pulled that toe back out.
