May 2007

The impact of SUM on MLS

Soccer America looks at what impact, if any, Soccer United Marketing (S.U.M) has had on our domestic league.  They’re very shrewd promoters, including clauses in contracts that teams coming over to play in friendlies, like Mexico or Manchester United, have to bring their first team regulars.  It sounds like the impact on MSL is fairly

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Friday Flick Fun

Sorry, I couldn’t resist a little alliteration today.  I’ve had a flickr account for a while now, and its definitely a slick site if you’re looking for a good photo sharing site.  If you’re using Kodak’s photo sharing site, switch now.  I’ll be honest now, if you send a link to a kodak gallery, I’ll

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Flash, Silverlight, all worthless

Now that we’re starting to get some benefits from maturing HTML, CSS, and Javascript implementations, via libraries like Prototype, Scriptaculous, Jquery, mootools, and so on, along come the vendors hawking their own proprietary re-invention of the same thing.  Wheter its Adobe’s Flash/Apollo/Flex, Microsofts’s recently demo’d Silverlight, or Sun’s rumoured own re-imagining of it all.  But

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