Sunday, February 07, 1999

Is this a picture of technography?

Very few sites give me website-envy, this one does, at least in its design. I very much like the idea of it having a set of queries that it's willing to run against its database. Now, why doesn't it recompute the list every time I click on a link? Is it really that useful if for some terms it just has stuff from a week ago? It's a good idea, but they didn't take it far enough?

LinuxCare is a one-stop-shop for Linux tech support needs.

CNN: Victoria's Secret knows ads, but not the Web. Duh-h-h!

I'd bet that when Microsoft decided to bundle MSIE with Windows in 1995, their purpose was largely to kill Netscape, but eventually the focus changed and now they use the browser as we do, more and more as the surface of all work that happens on the desktop. If that were true, what would the logical legal remedy be? That is, the market shifted, the browser isn't what it used to be, Microsoft surely played a role in it becoming what it is, so now what?

Arnold Lesikar: Tag Extraction Kit 2.1a5.

Paul Haeberli's Flash Synthesizer. A C library for producing Flash documents. Haeberli adds, "I'm curious about ways of hacking with Director Shockwave stuff. Do you know someone in that area I could chat with?"

John Cowan posted a critique of XML-RPC on the xml-dev list.

Teresa Martin on Microsoft's style sheet patent.

Tia O'Brien on Doug Engelbart.