Big Weekend o' links
New NTK
(NY Times) A Game Boy in the Crosshairs
(Scripting.com) Questioning Technology
(Scripting.com) NY Times - Market Watch. Pop goes the bubble
DaveNet - WebLogs
(AlertBox via Tomalak's Realm) Top-10 New Mistakes in Web Design
(Ask Tog via Tomalak's Realm) When Interfaces Kill
(via Tomalak's Realm) Interface Hall of Shame - QuickTime 4.0
MileStone 6 of Mozilla
Silicon Follies Chap 21
(Wired) Rush of business failures in the Valley?
(Business Week)eBay vs Amazon
Want a really really fast browser? Try Lynx. Text only. Intelligently lets you control cookies though.
(Intellectual Capital) Free Agent Nation.
(Tomalak's Realm)Forbes: Bricks to Bits - Guy Kawasaki
SAO R&D's Toolset released. (SAOtng etc).
CNET News.com - Copyright bills may limit access to facts
Andreessen singles out consumers as key to Web future(InfoWorld)
Ah, there is a MPEG.org with MP3 info
(Slashdot) Here come the Web Logs
(Slashdot) Paid to write open source?
Stalking the Wild Fry's Salesdroid
Risks 20.42 is out.
Risks 20.41 is out.
EGroups indexes the Squeak Mailing List
(Scripting.com) Tog on The Sorry State of Web Design
(Scripting.com) John Dvorak on the All Things Approach
A new DaveNet: Edit This Page. This is very similiar to the Swiki which comes with Squeak
TidBITS 482 is out.
User Friendly's strip on Sunday was on OS types of Sushi.
Chap 20 of Silicon Follies.
This week's Intellectual Capital is on Moore's Law.
Friday's NTK
TBTF for 22 May.
Getting Squeak to Speak
A new Pluggable Web Server for Squeak is called Comanche
Multithreading and Monitoring in Squeak's PWS, or, just Multithreading alone
(Tomalak's Realm) The Palm VII will be released soon
(Tomalak's Realm) Hmm, $0.30 per Kbyte
Cryptonomicon is out. There is also a nice FAQ
NYTimes article on Server Farms
Psion does Smart Cell Phones
The Jerry Springer show meets The Empire Stikes Back
Find your Star Wars Twin
Risks 20.40 is out.
Silicon Follies Chap 18
Silicon Follies Chap 19
TidBITS 481 is out.
Some gory tech details on MP3. It really should be called MPEG-1 layer 3, or MPEG-2 layer 3 :-)
Why SDMI will fail. It's even easier. The human ear can't listen to encrypted music. If nothing else you can just resample the output of your computer...
Alertbox: Who Commits the Top-10 Mistakes of Web Design?
NetFuture #90 is out
Friday brought a new NTK
Risks 20.39 is out.
Seidman's Online Insider V6 #6 is out.
Cool new channel at my.userland.com named Free XML Tools
This weeek's Intellectual Capital is on the Israeli Election.
MS lost its appeal on Temporary Workers and stock options.
A new version of Squeak MinneStore is out.
DaveNet: Linux Newbies
Slow day...
I forgot, but on Friday there was a new Intellectual Capital on parenting.
Nice interview with the Director of the Empire Strikes Back
Risks 20.37 is out.
Risks 20.38 is out.
Chap 17 of Silicon Follies
Opps, I forgot to mention, I was on vacation.
A new Apple Wizards is out.
A new TBTF is out.
A new NTK
Interesting Digital Coast article in the LA Times.
TidBITS 480 is out.
Nice way to make a one file Squeak program for the mac.
I don't get any response, but, Geekcruises.com looks interesting
WWDC notes.
9th Court of Appeals rules on encryption
Davenet: Money on the Table
Squeak for Unix has moved.
Squeak 2.4c is out
Davenet: Thanks Yahoo
Davenet: Dreams or Teams
Want to Wear your computer
Mozilla M5 is out.
(From Eristocracy)The Australian Securities & Investment Commission created a hoax Web site: http://www.smbi.com.au on April 1st this year. The site boasted that punters would triple their money if they invested their money in Millennium Bug Insurance. The site attracted $4 million worth of interest from people who were fooled by the web site. Only a few alerted ASIC that the company didn't seem legit. The site was designed to educate the public about the risks of investing in Internet ventures. Full Story at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/national/4291177.htm
A new Silicon Follies is out.
A new Onion is out.
NetFuture 89 is out.
A new NetOpinion is out.
(DaveNet)Swimming With The Music Industry
(From Davenetics) LISTEN UP It may seem like the press is overly obsessed with the MP3 craze. But ramifications of the developments in digital music will have an impact on the way we share all files via the internet. So it pays to follow along. An overview of the latest developments:
Dow Breaks 11000
TidBITS 479 is out.
Mark Weiser died. He was a big person in the ubiquitous computing world at PARC. BTW, Xerox's pages aren't so good here. For a "document company" you think they could do better...
Most of the weekend updates happened over the weekend, for once.
One of the scariest articles I've read in a long time about data mining. And I'm interested in data mining... Capital One knows a lot about you.
(DaveNet)Who Owns .com
Adi Shamir has been thinking about decryption
Risks 20.36 is out.
Friday saw a new Intellectual Capital
Some background, I'm a US expat living near Geneva. My wife needs to go to the US in June, so, lets see how well those on-line travel sites really work. First up, travelocity. They know I live in Switzerland, and yet, after 10s of clicks their options to deliver my tickets are US Mail, to US and Canadian addresses or Fed Ex to US and Canadian addresses. Ok, no problem, my company will forward any mail to me that they get. Opps, the deliverly address must match the billing address on the credit card. No go, since the extra week or so delay for the mail forwarding makes it impossible to pay credit cards on time.
So, off to ITN. After 10s of clicks we find that for $35 they'll fedex the ticket to me. Ok, that'll work. But, I have to give an address the same as my credit card address. Hmm, well yes, I know what address my credit card bills arrive at, but, what is it exactly. See, this isn't the US, there can be quite a bit of valid variation in addresses here. The Swiss Postal service is quite bright but not very standardized. So, after trying about a half dozen different variations I give up. It's pointless. It doesn't help that it insists on a State for my address. Yes, we have state like things in Switzerland called Cantons, but, you don't use them in addresses.
So, since both ITN and Travelocity thought that Swissair was the cheapest, off to Swissair's site. They use a custom version of travelocity and, of course, can deal with Swiss addresses. Good thing they were the cheapest...
Web commerce sites shouldn't be so US centric...
Apple up on anticipation of new powerbooks
Risks 20.35 is out.
A new Alert Box "Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design" revisited 3 years later
(From Tomalak's Realm") Too Simply Palm
A new Silicon Follies
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