I currently use MarsEdit to write blogs. I would likely write more if it was a better tool, but lots of things are much harder than I think they should be. (like dragging and dropping links and images).

I was just reading a post about Qumana and the promise of dragging and dropping images and links got me all excited. I went to the home page to see this graphic

Happy woman! Nice, cool looking pad! … and check that, she is using a PowerBook! Cool. I can use Qumana with a Mac! … well, that is if I can get the following system requirements listed to work on my PowerBook:

The Qumana application has the following system requirements:

Operating System: Windows(R) XP, Windows(R) 2000, Windows(R) 98

Processor: Intel Pentium or compatible

Memory: Minimum 128Mb

Additional space is needed to store any content you collect.

Internet: An Internet connection is needed for Qumana.

Well, the Intel processor is coming at least. But then my blogging tool (WordPress) is not supported anyways. Boo hoo.

Looks like Microsoft is following the lead of Tim Bray in criticizing the Web 2.0 term. Check out this app shown at PDC, but don’t bother going there if you are running Safari. It does work with Mozilla though. Go figure. It is cool that Microsoft is building Ajax stuff. Perhaps it will run in Safari soon.

In my Identity 2.0 talk I define Web 2.0 as being the difference between DOS and Windows. In DOS we just used one app at a time, APIs were pretty minimal, there was no dynamic linking of data or components. Windows enabled multiple apps to be running in concert, at least most of the time. Web 2.0 is still emerging and as the people at O’Reilly say, it is a meme.