I came across this site tonight and thought hey that's cool a
company that digs up information and news on Microsoft. Went looking
for the RSS feed and ended up on a FAQ page and found a subscription
to this service is $795.00 a year for an individual. I am honestly
quite shocked so I am now on a quest to talk to someone that actually
has a subscription to this service. With literally 100's of people
digging up info on Microsoft and publishing it for free and with Channel9 producing great info. I
just wonder if this company is in danger of losing subscribers to
sites like ours. So if you pay this company their ridiculous
subscription fee is it worth it. [www.directionsonmicrosoft
.com]
Directions03/13/2003 11:12 PM Click the RSS Feeds link on the left. Scroll down to the bottom. Enjoy
the Bomis.
Cleaning directions
Cleaning directions06/27/2004 03:58 PM A guy on a mailing list sent this around saying that it came from a
friend of a friend of an n degree friend. It's supposedly the clothing
label from a small American company that sells its product in France.
Translation: Wash with warm water. Use mild soap. Dry flat. Do not use
bleach. Do not dry in the dryer. Do not iron. We are sorry that Our
President is an idiot. We did not vote for him....
IBM tries to stretch the 970 in two directions at once
IBM tries to stretch the 970 in two directions at once06/28/2004 01:08 PM eWeek is running some good coverage of IBM's attempts to scale the
PowerPC 970 both further into the high end (3GHz and beyond) and into
the mobile space.
Future Directions
Future Directions03/11/2003 01:22 AM Future Directions
Ok. This is sort of a conversation with myself over what features to
add next and trying to codify my thinking. Input is quite welcome
though, just leave a comment.
Fact: Users like simple clean search UIs.
Response: True. All search engines are moving this way.
Fact: Users enter simple queries
Response: Means that they will get too many results
Fact: Search overload happens
Response: Add a "Filter" widget to the top of a result set so people
can reduce the search results to something manageable
Fact: RSS feeds expire items as they flow off the home page
Response: One search filter option could be Filter Old, Filter
Current, Filter to Only Today (I know the english ain't right)
Fact: Filters need to be successive
Response: Sigh but yup.
Fact: People know the google search variables
Response: I should support them for use with 3rd party engines / meta
searching, etc. Improving on them is worse except in the context
where options don't exist.
Fact: An XML-RPC api is a frothy good thing
Response: That'll take longer but ok. Note to self: Check out Keith
Deven's library for this
Fact: Language detection is needed
Response: Good ideas in that post. Thanks all !
Fact: Need a preferences tab so you can set one or more rss urls to
never be shown or searched
Response: Yup. I sense php sessions coming shortly for faster
development.
Fact: Must move to an AND'd search.
Response: In progress
Fact: Take into account changes.xml analysis for generating frequency
of change metrics
Response: Partially done
Fact: Opml loader needed
Response: Most of the loader code is written. Dealing with non-valid
opml isn't yet. " are delimiters not part of the damn name element!
(or that's my thinking)
Fact: Ability to view a properties sheet for a feed would be useful
Response: Tie into changes.xml metrics
Fact: Add and index rss in real time
Response: Mostly done but needs error handling and prettifying. The
separate indexing process is eliminated
Fact: Restrict search to my own blog would be useful
Response: Heck I want this if nothing else
Fact: Generate search results in RSS
Response: Other than concerns about server load, that's cool
Fact: Need ability to restrict searches to just entries in my opml
file / blogroll.
Response: Yup. Needed.
Question: Should I be worrying about integration w/ aggregators?
Answer: Unknown. Example: Search from within NNW.
Question: Is integration w/ blogging tools interesting?
Answer: Probably. Andy has already asked for it for Blozom Need to
think here.
That's a start on a rough core dump of what little brain I have left.
More later. Clearly I'm thinking in a model of "Oversearch and then
subtract". That resonates with me. Comments? Other things are still
summarized in comments here not in this post. I'm particularly
curious as to what features people think they need immediately versus
later.
Reporting in eight directions
Reporting in eight directions01/03/2004 04:48 AM The community push to syndicate every viewpoint, every post, through
semi-interoperable standards like RSS and Atom has resulted in a
dramatic shift in the media power balance; media organizations can no
longer embargo certain topics, hoping they'll fade into the background
noise. In most media organizations (newspapers, radio stations, etc.),
you can find topics that are "blacklisted"; I'd never turn to Fox News
to hear more about how Fox nearly sued itself over a Simpsons episode;
I'd never turn to a corporation's blog to read more about one of their
internal memos. In each case, I can rightly presume – these days
– that they'll put their short-term interests ahead of
longer-term goals, such as honesty and forthrightness. The problem
with embargoes is that they have a dramatic effect, in a world where
the media is controlled by a few,...
Driving Directions Sites12/14/2003 11:20 AM For an article I'm writing, I'm looking for sites that provide
driving directions. They should either be major and obvious, such as
Mapquest, Rand McNally and MapPoint or they should be really
interesting. I'm interested in general mass market mapping sites,
also. Any suggestions?...
My french isn't too good, but I'm going to guess that Autres Directions in
Music is a new internet music label based in France releasing
their songs under Creative Commons licenses. So far their releases
consist of these four albums: (1, 2, 3, 4) all ready for download as MP3s or you can drop them 5 euros
to get a disc. [via Aeiou]
10.4: Use Spotlight for offline Mapquest directions
10.4: Use Spotlight for offline Mapquest directions06/17/2005 04:40 PM First of all, this is not an earth-shaking hint, more like a hintlette
;-)...
I use Mapquest to get driving directions. Once I look up directions in
Safari, I save them as a web archive using File -> Save As; the
default is ...
Google directions to fictitious places07/29/2004 08:32 AM I looked up "Valhalla" in Google to see if I'd spelled it correctly,
and above the entries, Google offered to show me a map of
Valhalla...Valhalla, NY, that is. Still, it took me aback. Are there
other fictitious places for which Google provides above-the-results
maps?...
A script to send MapQuest directions via Bluetooth
A script to send MapQuest directions via Bluetooth08/05/2004 10:24 AM This script sends MapQuest directions to a BlueTooth-enabled Nokia
phone. This script has been tested with a Nokia 3620 model. Copy the
following script into a text editor, and save as mapquest.pl.
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "En...
Alleged Bank Robber Seeks Directions (AP)
Alleged Bank Robber Seeks Directions (AP)08/30/2004 08:49 PM AP - Paul Michael Callahan was a bank robber in search of a bank,
according to police. First thing Monday morning, he allegedly tried to
rob a copy shop at Boston University thinking it was a bank.
IDC Directions: Tech opportunities exist but are hard to find
Japan Sees Future in Phones That Give Directions (Reuters)
Japan Sees Future in Phones That Give Directions (Reuters)05/08/2004 07:53 AM Reuters - In a country where quiet efficiency and a
frenetic pace manage to coexist, Japanese consumers are
discovering the convenience of mobile phones that know where
they are and can help you get where you want to go.
"Tired of Giving Directions - Pizza Eaters Design GPS Delivery System"03/28/2005 03:55 AM Pi Star Communications, is "Empowering Deliveries Everyday." Their
product is a hardware and software package that electronically links a
retail outlet or food-and-beverage supplier with its delivery fleet
and its customers at the same time. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]
Survey Uncovers Challenges and Promising Directions for Autoimmune Disease Research
Survey Uncovers Challenges and Promising Directions for Autoimmune Disease Research06/21/2004 02:40 AM A recent survey shows strong agreement among immunologists that the
heterogeneity of autoimmune diseases is the most significant challenge
they face in their search for common pathway targets. The 650+
researchers surveyed by BioInformatics, LLC also reported that their
difficulty in obtaining patient samples hinders their ability to
monitor disease changes over time. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2004]
MarketResearch.Com And Content Directions, Inc. Announce Agreement To Implement Digital Object Identifiers
MarketResearch.Com And Content Directions, Inc. Announce Agreement To Implement Digital Object Identifiers07/19/2004 02:52 AM MarketResearch.com, the leader in global business intelligence
representing the most comprehensive collection of published market
research available on demand, and Content Directions, Inc. (CDI), the
leading commercial DOI Registration Agency, today announced an
implementation of digital object identifiers (DOIs) within
MarketResearch.com’s content and its related web sites. [PRWEB Jul
19, 2004]
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-050: Vulnerability in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel Could Allow Arbitrary Code to Run (831527)
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-050: Vulnerability in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel Could Allow Arbitrary Code to Run (831527)11/13/2003 12:36 AM A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word that could allow
malicious code execution. This vulnerability exists due to to the way
Word checks the length of a data value (Macro names) embedded in a
document. If a specially crafted document were to be opened it could
overflow a data value in Word and allow arbitrary code to be executed.
If successfully exploited, an attacker could then take the same
actions as the user had permissions to carry out, such as adding,
changing or deleting data or files, communicating with a web site or
formatting the hard drive.
Microsoft Patents Borg Technology June 23 - 9:06 PM ET Researchers at Microsoft have devised a technique to as
