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Technorati blogging tags: Good idea, terrible implementation







Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation
03/19/2005 03:09 AM

Here’s an idea: what if when I wrote weblog entries about General Motors, I included a special tag, a keyword tag, that let everyone who wanted to read blog entries about General Motors read my weblog article, without otherwise having to subscribe to my blog? Makes sense. Now, should it be “gm” or “GM” or “generalmotors” or “general motors” or “General Motors” or “GM Corporation” or … ? Therein lies the fundamental problem with Technorati…

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_vti...Very Terrible Idea?


_vti...Very Terrible Idea? 09/08/2004 12:58 PM

Vermeer Technologies Gives Birth To FrontPage: Joe's mention of "FrontPage crap" in his Cy gwin post got me remembering the joy of having "_vti" directories scattered across my hard drive when working with the unabashed sucking that was early versions of FrontPage. (I was issued FrontPage 1.1 on five floppies by Microsoft back when I was a beta-tester for MSN.)

Did you ever wonder where the "vti" prefix came from? Why those letters? Turns out they stood for "Vermeer Technologies Incorporated" which was the company that built FrontPage originally. They were the ones who came up with the idea of "WebBots" and "Server Extensions."

Microsoft bought Vermeer and its "Critically Acclaimed Visual Client-Server Web Publishing Tool" in January 1996 for $130-some-odd million. Here's the press release. As near as I can tell, Vermeer dropped off the face of the Earth after being acquired — they were simply absorbed into the Borg cube.

And here's a review of FrontPage from November 1995, just before they were acquired.

Vermeer's FrontPage Editor is an excellent WYSIWYG HTML editor with a built-in to-do list that keeps track of necessary changes to your Web pages. The only thing lacking is support for tables, which is planned for the next version [...]

No table support? We've come so far.

If this story interests you, the guy who founded Vermeer wrote a book about it: High Stakes, No Prisoners.

Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up generation. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it to Microsoft for $133 million — all in less than two years. High Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique world of Silicon Valley.

You have to love the title of the first reader review: "If he's so smart, why isn't he richer?" I can't find any reference to what Ferguson is doing today.

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"Lifetime terrorist detentions are a bad
idea -- but if another senator has said
that, say, Chuck Hagel, I'd have said
it's a very GOOD idea."


"Lifetime terrorist detentions are a bad
idea -- but if another senator has said
that, say, Chuck Hagel, I'd have said
it's a very GOOD idea."
01/03/2005 10:35 AM

Why Technorati tags don't


Why Technorati tags don't 02/01/2005 09:47 PM
Tagging has become the latest hype word-du-jour, mostly due to services such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and now, Technorati. Clay Shirky and others have written strong statements for this folksonomy phenomenon.

I personally love tags. They are a very cool way of attaching meaning to information - essentially put the semantics in the web in the "Semantic Web" sense, even if the metadata is dissociated from the pages themselves. But as a non-English speaker I see a potentially fatal flaw here: Most Internet users don't speak English as their first language. Even if I speak decent English and use a lot of English services, I still tag things in both English and my native language.

And that means that tags will become "language polluted." Take a look at the Technorati tag for "Macintosh& ;quot;, for example. Many of the blog entries are in Japanese.

If you look at Orkut, many of the parts of it suddenly became &a mp;quot;owned" by Brasilians, which essentially drove away English speakers (I haven't checked how they have handled this). USENET coped with this by having separate hierarchies for each country (so sfnet is all Finnish) and "accepted" languages on each newsgroup. But tags don't have any way to determine the language.

The situation is worse than it should be, because entries on RSS feeds and blogs almost never state what their language is. In fact, I would guess that most RSS feeds claim that the language is "en-US" regardless of their actual content. People like me write in two languages on the same blog. Atom has the possibility of setting the language-per-entry, but I sincerely doubt that anyone will bother to set the language, unless they are relatively passionate about the subject.

There are three cases of "language collision" on tags (I'm using English and Finnish as an example only here).

  1. The tag is different in English and in Finnish. For example "fishing" and "kalastus". This should pose no problem, as the folksonomies grow on each of the tags independently.
  2. The tag is the same in English and in language Finnish, but the meaning of the tag is different. In this case, the dominant mass of the users will "hijack" the tag.
  3. The tag is the same in both languages, but the web pages will be in different languages. This is the case with things like trade marks (Apple, Macintosh, Nokia), or when people like to tag Finnish pages with English tags (like me: I use the word "blog" to mark any significant articles about blogs, regardless of the language). This reduces the usefulness of tags for people who do not understand Finnish.

There is also an additional tagging problem with languages such as Finnish: the same word can be conjugated and written in multiple ways, depending on the context. It is somewhat the same as the problem of using different words for the same concept, but it does make the number of potential strings increase three-fourfold.

There are few solutions to this problem: and probably all of them involve some sort of heuristic to determine the language of the tag and the web page. Tagging is still a relatively new technique to be adopted in mass classification of things, but in order for it to become truly successful, one must still remember localization. Otherwise, it will be the dominance of the masses

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Technorati Tags 101 Screencast


Technorati Tags 101 Screencast 03/14/2005 05:34 PM
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Technorati, Tags, Semantics


Technorati, Tags, Semantics 06/17/2005 04:38 PM

Hey, the Technorati beta is up. Looks much nicer, though I wish they’d lose the dude with the megaphone; goatees are so 1993. (Hey look, Technorati and Newsweek, sitting in a tree.) Among other things, the technorationals are making a concerted effort to prove that my doubts about tagging are misplaced—so are Shirky et al at You’re It!. It’s become obvious that tags are useful enough as a place to park search words for pictures & music & other stuff that doesn’t have words to search. Furthermore, I’ve heard a dozen compelling stories from people who are using tags to organize their own information and track trends; so it’s looking like the answers are: Yes, tagging is useful; No, it’s not a replacement for full-text search, even partially. On the subject of search, Sun’s Search Guy Steve Green is trying to push over the boundary between search and semantics.


Technorati Launches Tags


Technorati Launches Tags 02/01/2005 08:50 PM
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Adding Technorati Tags with MarsEdit


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Laura Lemay: “As part of this whole tagging experiment I wrote a little applescript for MarsEdit to automatically insert the ‘Technorati Tags’ HTML at the bottom of each post... After installing it, you use it by tagging your post and then just choosing the script from the Script menu.”

Technorati launches Related Tags


Technorati launches Related Tags 04/09/2005 02:47 PM
Ever wanted to see what posts are related to other posts, what tags are related to others? Now you can! Just check under the Tag description on most tag pages, like this one, or this one, and you'll see...

A great introduction to Technorati tags


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Innovating from the Ground Up, and the
Idea-Implementation Disconnect


Innovating from the Ground Up, and the
Idea-Implementation Disconnect
03/22/2005 04:54 PM
solarpanelThe Ideas: (1) Instead of thinking about technological innovation that applies top-down (improving our cities, our institutions, our communities) what if we thought about such innovation at the personal level, bottom-up, the way nature does? (2) Why are we so inept at moving from brilliant ideas to ubiquitous delivery of solutions?

I have long been an advocate of bottom-up, front-line-focused, personalized solutions to business problems, because I've seen them work, and because I've seen imposed top-down one-size-fits-all management solutions continually fail. And I've proposed bottom-up, community-based solutions for our political, social and economic woes. Everything I've learned so far tells me that bigger-is-worse, that there are no economies of scale, that centralized is much less effective than decentralized, and that the people at the top of power and money elites are totally disinterested in solving real problems, and merely consumed with further increasing their power and wealth.

So if bottom-up problem-solving is the best answer for business, social, political and economic challenges, how about technological challenges?

I have mentioned my revelation at a recent wind energy conference where a large number of people seeking to become personally energy-independent overwhelmed one gentleman who wanted the state to set up more centralized, "efficient" wind farms for all, and how I, as a liberal accustomed to the role of the state in organizing things for the greater benefit, was at first ambivalent, but by the end of the day was won over by the self-interested. While I still believe innovation and technology need to be focused on solving basic human needs, I've begun to think that they might better solve those needs by looking at personal bottom-up solutions instead of institutionally-deployed ones. I'm even wondering whether community-based renewable energy co-ops are too centralized. No, I haven't suddenly become a libertarian or a Dawkins selfish-gene adherent: Nature, in its technological design and innovation (look at birds' wings and the thermal design of feathers), doesn't use centralized solutions -- animal communities are bound together by social imperatives, not shared technologies. Why should we be any different?

smartcar2Maybe we need to merge the great cradle-to-cradle design thinking of guys like Bill McDonough, who creates wonderful zero-waste designs for institutions, with the bottom-up, personalized approaches that I have advocated for business.

Here are some of the fragments of ideas that I've been kicking around since I contemplated this. Since I was thinking at the time about renewable energy, the End of Oil and global warming, that's what most of these ideas are focused on:

What if solar energy collectors were designed to look like trees, not like flat panels -- more surface area, better fit with the environment? Could they even be 'grown' using fractal patterns and crystal-forming ingredients?

What if hats were designed as personal solar energy collectors -- instead of just protecting us from the sun's rays, why not have them harvest them? What about hair, even, which again has more surface area. Could our shampoo double as an application of wireless nanotech energy collectors?

What if we could harvest our nervous energy, and the energy expended when we exercise? I've heard of PCs and flashlights powered by hand-cran k devices. Why not PCs and TVs powered by foot pedals, or ergonomic bicycle-type devices under our desks? Deskwork and good exercise at the same time.

What if instead of heating and cooling whole buildings, we designed our clothing (the design of which now is, let's face it, pretty useless, not nearly durable enough, and quite silly) to heat and cool our bodies? No more fighting over where to set the thermostat -- we each set our own. And don't tell me it would look geeky or restrict our movement -- good design can solve that. Just use birds as models.

What if we merged the technologies of the Smart Car (lightweight materials, miniaturization) with the technologies of the recumbent bicycle, the ele ctric scooter, and the Segway, to create a human-powered enclosed vehicle that would achieve highway speeds and give us good exercise while using no fuel whatsoever? Can't be done? That's what they told the Wrights.

What if we developed a toilet that produced fertilizer instead of sewage, and delivered it through the sprinkler system right to your garden?

Yes, I hear you saying that these aren't new ideas, they've been tried, some are even being used as we speak. But how do we make them commercial, mainstream, available to and affordable by everyone? After all, millions of houses are still being built with wasteful, inefficient North American style hot water heaters instead of the long-coil European "instant hot water" heaters. If we're going to save the world and stuff we can't quit when people nod and say "good idea" -- we need to commercialize it, make it better, experiment with real working models, and drive it out until everyone has one, so the need for the old technologies that these ideas replace -- power plants, the electrical grid, furnaces, air conditioners, internal combustion engines, passive hot water tanks, toxic non-recyclable batteries, maybe even buildings (to the extent their primary function is to keep heat in, or out) -- can be done away with.

What is the reason that so many bottom-up ideas and innovations never make it into the commercial marketplace? I'm not a believer in conspiracy theories that corporations deliberately buy up and suppress more durable inventions to keep them from cannibalizing their market. I think it's more likely that people with good ideas are just disconnected from those with the skills and resources needed to implement those ideas. And vice versa -- those with commercialization skills and resources are rewarded by the market (and by shareholders) for not fixing what ain't broke, for not changing what they're doing until and unless they have to. 

So on the one hand we have an astonishing and unprecedented flood of good ideas, made possible by the democratization of knowledge (the Internet etc.), and on the other hand we have this incredible inertia by those who could make those ideas reality, change everything. Not dissimilar to the paradox of our staggering surplus of cheap (thanks to subsidies) foods and medicines at the same time we have epidemics of hunger, malnutrition and disease. "It's the distribution system", some say. "It's the lack of security and ethics in the areas of suffering" say others. "It's the whole economic system, which is designed to artificially create scarcity to drive up demand and hence profits", say others.

It's time to stop excusing ourselves and blaming others for these disconnects. It's time to stop amusing ourselves to death with fake-reality shows and the fate of some poor brain-dead woman in Florida. Where there's a will, there's a way. It's a question of priorities, of combining energies, and of collaborating in a focused, informed and urgent manner to fix the disconnects and make it happen. We have a responsibility to make it happen. We certainly have the money, the ingenuity and the organizing technologies to make it happen, so what are we waiting for? We need to get past our learned helplessness and start talking to each other about things that matter, things we can fix, and enrolling ourselves to do so.

Are we just disorganized, or is our passivity, our inaction, our feelings of helplessness, are these things symptoms of something deeper, darker? Or is all this noise, this online cacophony, the sound of a billion revving engines just now shifting into gear?

Good idea and a good service. Can anyone
say how can I register to gmail, and if
attchment size is large then


Good idea and a good service. Can anyone
say how can I register to gmail, and if
attchment size is large then
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A very good idea


A very good idea 12/27/2003 11:22 AM
The Whispering Wheel Ever see a brilliant invention and you wish you had thought of it? Simply genius. Might change the world for the better.

Seemed Like a Good Idea ...


Seemed Like a Good Idea ... 01/27/2004 12:12 AM
Shark Tank: This executive's laptop always fails during takeoff on the company's private jet, so this IT pilot fish gets a directive: Ride up and down in the plane as many times as necessary to troubleshoot it. ...

It Seemed Like a Good Idea...


It Seemed Like a Good Idea... 12/02/2003 01:57 AM
Shark Tank: Fast food chain's new restocking system uses faxed orders that are fed into a handwriting-recognition system. And it tests out fine -- until it hits the real world.

Bad Weather + UPS = Good Idea


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Good Idea, 5 Years Ago


Good Idea, 5 Years Ago 11/17/2003 04:23 PM
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Bishop should go. Good idea.


Bishop should go. Good idea. 04/13/2004 06:15 PM
The robot should go in first. Between 50 and 100 Packbot [13MB wmv] unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) are currently being used for battlefield reconnaissance. One proved its worth last week when it uncovered a bomb and was destroyed in the process. Colin Angle, CEO of Packbot maker iRobot, doesn't rule out the eventual weaponizing of UGVs and quips "we're not using these robots to hand out flowers".

Is the new .xxx domain a good idea?


Is the new .xxx domain a good idea? 06/05/2005 11:53 PM
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"Darned Good Idea"


"Darned Good Idea" 06/25/2004 10:29 AM

A good idea but there's a big risk


A good idea but there's a big risk 12/09/2003 09:41 AM
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Sleeping with the president is not a
good idea.


Sleeping with the president is not a
good idea.
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Sleeping with the president is not a good idea. Bush had no answers to big questions, such as 'what happens on the morning after.' The Daily Telegraph reports that documents show Prime Minister Tony Blair signed up to the U.S. policy of regime change in March 2002, a year before the conflict started... after he was warned that postwar stability would be difficult and the U.S. had few answers. Oh, no problem. This week, Bush said he is 'pleased with the progress' in Iraq.'

Sun subscriptions--a gimmicky good idea?


Sun subscriptions--a gimmicky good idea? 06/09/2004 08:49 AM

Is Targeted Advertising A Good Idea?


Is Targeted Advertising A Good Idea? 06/21/2004 03:35 PM
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Sun subscriptions--gimmick or good idea?


Sun subscriptions--gimmick or good idea? 06/09/2004 09:17 AM

Not a good idea - once can just scratch
the CD on any rough


Not a good idea - once can just scratch
the CD on any rough
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Shark Tank: Well, it SEEMED like a good
idea ...


Shark Tank: Well, it SEEMED like a good
idea ...
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Is terror booklet a good idea?


Is terror booklet a good idea? 07/26/2004 05:40 AM
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Sun's gimmicky good idea


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idea at the time


Shark Tank: But it seemed like a good
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This pilot fish is on the phone with his uninterruptible power supply vendor, trying to find out whether he can get a replacement battery for his very, very old UPS.

Shark Tank: But it seemed like such a
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Shark Tank: But it seemed like such a
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Is Finding Security Holes a Good Idea?


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Shark Tank: Well, the users think the
signs are a good idea


Shark Tank: Well, the users think the
signs are a good idea
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At this site, part of the IT group's responsibility is to deal with any problems with the videoconferencing system -- and it's usually the same trouble.

"focusing on Iraqi bl0gger's reactions
(good idea)"


"focusing on Iraqi bl0gger's reactions
(good idea)"
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How good is local e-Government? IDeA
report looks under the bonnet


How good is local e-Government? IDeA
report looks under the bonnet
05/04/2004 03:44 AM
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Synthetic Testosterone Seemed Like a
Good Idea. Then Came Fertility Issues.


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Re: Paper announcement: Is finding
security holes a good idea?


Re: Paper announcement: Is finding
security holes a good idea?
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RE: Paper announcement: Is finding
security holes a good idea?


RE: Paper announcement: Is finding
security holes a good idea?
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I am Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to
Fantasy Island!


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EA Sports Fantasy Football
ComingFootball fans and internet junkies
rejoice...your fantasy is becoming
reality


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06/16/2004 02:46 PM
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Fantasy Bedtime Hour


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Kyuden : a MMO fantasy asian game


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Flights of Fantasy


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Final Fantasy XI under a


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Final Fantasy


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Fantasy Land


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Fantasy Veepstakes


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Pretend for the moment that Howard Dean wins the nomination. Who would be his most interesting choice for running mate? (Note: Reality need not impinge on this decision, although we should perhaps limit ourselves to living, non-fictitious human American citizens.) John McCain? He's a straight talkin' kinda guy and he's got the military hero vote sewn up. Ross Perot? He's a straight-talkin' kinda guy and he's got the vague and confused vote sewn up. Also, he's shorter than Dean. Al Franken? I've been reading Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them and he's got my vote. Martin Sheen?...

Final Fantasy X


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If there is anybody out there who has actually beaten Jecht in FFX and won the game, I'd love some tips/pointers. I have played that final boss battle over and over again, and every time I get beat down when he enters his second form. I simply can't keep my characters alive and take out the towers and damage Jecht all at the same time. What am I missing?


Final Fantasy XII Trailer


Final Fantasy XII Trailer 05/02/2004 04:43 PM

Spirit of Gaia - Fantasy RPG


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G4techTV Fantasy Football


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The Fantasy and Reality of 2004


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'Final Fantasy XI' under attack


'Final Fantasy XI' under attack 04/18/2005 06:10 PM
DDoS attacks bog down performance of Square Enix's online services; gamers in Japan, Europe and North America affected.

my Free Fantasy League


my Free Fantasy League 08/31/2004 03:34 PM
myFFL.net running, Alpha release.

China's fantasy craze


China's fantasy craze 04/01/2005 11:03 AM
Online role-playing games played by millions have led to a spate of suicides, deaths by exhaustion and even an attempt at self-immolation.

Tolkien Fantasy Comes to Life


Tolkien Fantasy Comes to Life 12/19/2003 11:51 AM
It's time for another trip to Middle Earth. The third installment of the epic Lord of the Rings series drags on in parts, but the film is worth the wait. By Danit Lidor.

POW/MIA's - Another Viet Nam War Fantasy


POW/MIA's - Another Viet Nam War Fantasy 03/15/2003 08:55 PM
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I Spy Fantasy released on hybrid CD-ROM


I Spy Fantasy released on hybrid CD-ROM 11/10/2003 11:27 PM
Scholastic Corp. announced monday the release of I Spy Fantasy, a new game based on the I Spy book and television series. I Spy Fantasy takes kids on three different adventures -- one inside a sand castle, one on an alien planet and one under the sea.

PS2 Final Fantasy 7 Spinoff


PS2 Final Fantasy 7 Spinoff 09/16/2004 10:55 AM

REVIEW: Final Fantasy X-2 Disappoints


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The "rape fantasy" that went wrong
(Reuters)


The "rape fantasy" that went wrong
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Reuters - A California man has pleaded guilty to residential burglary after he set up a meeting with a woman on a rape fantasy Internet chat page, but instead broke into a different woman's apartment.

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Google Launches
Tools Website

Tracking GPL
Violators

BitMover Releases
Open Source
BitKeeper Client

Debian Leaders: We
Need to Release More
Often

MIT Urges Brazilian
Government to Use
Linux

Which Linux
Certification?

FCC Extends Set-Top
Box Deadline

Waterloo Web
Development Company
Founder Named
Regional Champion
for Central Canada
Region in CIBC
Student Ent

Samsung Using
Macromedia Flash
Lite 1.1 For New
'Intuitive' User
Interfaces

Transforming
XML-to-XML or -Text
or -HTML

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Report criticizes
oversight of
'E-rate' program

Dell packs up
white-box program

Web tools blaze
trail to the past

Defender of the
Linux faith

Stakes raised in
fast net race

Online auction for
disputed 9-11 flag
on again

Qwest raises offer
to acquire MCI to
nearly $8.5 billion

Oracle raises bid
for Retek

Intel granted
extension in Japan
FTC case

HP looks to
nanotechnology to
keep computing power
doubling

Google woos software
developers with
tools website

New Microsoft
Longhorn chief is
indigestion expert

Cleaning spam from
swapping networks

Security's new deal
Annual CA World user
conference back on

Intel to ship
'Potomac' Xeon MP
this month

SAP and Oracle
continue battle for
Retek

Filmmakers hawk new
technology to
convert films to 3-D

BitTorrent hubs
close after ISP raid

Competition heats up
for Dell in China's
PC market

Gizmondo gadget hits
the shelves

Microsoft's draft
licence, step by
step

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Chemists welcome
Apple at California
trade show
(MacCentral)

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