Tuesday, June 15, 1999

Seattle Times: Meet Ben Slivka, the burr in Microsoft's saddle. "Slivka also argued that Microsoft should put its resources and weight behind improving HTML, the browser standard for document formatting and layout. That threatened Microsoft Word overseer Peter Pathe, who along with other Microsoft Office partisans felt the way to go was to make Word the document standard on the Net." Never!!

From an engineer at Netscape, hints on the next rev of RSS, which is locked down and in testing. That's not a nice way to play!

We'll have version 2.0b1 of scriptingNews format ready for review tomorrow morning.

InfoWorld: Gosling Says Unix Systems Immune to Viruses. Don't they have emailers on Solaris? Can you enclose an executable or a shell script? If so, their door is wide open.

News.Com: IBM Pushes Hard Drive Envelope.

Interactive Week: Inktomi's Directory Engine puts it into head-on competition with Yahoo.

Red Herring: Linux's Threat to Microsoft. "Microsoft's challenge has been to reproduce the strange ecology of Windows on the Internet."

Wired: MS Funds Kaffe-Maker Transvirtual. "Redmond has taken the unusual step of funding an open-source software company that is writing Java code similar to that which landed the company in court with Sun."

New channel: New Jersey Jobs Resume Network, WebComics.

Late in the day yesterday I reversed my decision to include synthetic channels in My.UserLand.Com. The whole thread is very interesting, lots of new people participating.

My dream is to do my Scripting News work from the Cyber Up Internet Cafe on the beach in Negril, Jamaica.

More hot links on the Marc.Canter.Com channel.