Retooled HotBot back for another round

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Intel-Intergraph Case Sent Back For
Round 2

Intel-Intergraph Case Sent Back For
Round 2 02/11/2004 09:48 PM
A judge for the Federal Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a previous settlement that found Intel Corp. violated patents held by Intergraph Corp., in a suit that hinged upon the definition of two key words.

Watch Your Back Gangsters. Round 2 of
Mafialife.com Opens

Watch Your Back Gangsters. Round 2 of
Mafialife.com Opens 08/23/2004 02:45 AM
Mafialife.com is an internet online mafia simulation game that is played with you as a mob gangster trying to climb to top of a family. You go through the everyday experiences of a "made" man.Live dangerously by doing illegal crimes of the mafia and watch your back as others try to whack you. The second round of Mafialife.com opened early this August. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004]

WTO Strikes Trade Deal; Doha Round Back
on Track

WTO Strikes Trade Deal; Doha Round Back
on Track 08/01/2004 09:46 AM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 1 2004 1:43PM GMT

Female Website Owner “Gives Back” With
New Round of Amber Grants to Women
Entrepreneurs

Female Website Owner “Gives Back” With
New Round of Amber Grants to Women
Entrepreneurs 06/08/2004 02:59 AM
Popular web site for women entrepreneurs returns, with new round of Grants for women business owners and start-ups. [PRWEB Jun 8, 2004]

A retooled Acer sets its sights anew on
U.S. and China PC markets

A retooled Acer sets its sights anew on
U.S. and China PC markets 09/05/2004 06:35 PM
IHT Sep 5 2004 10:38PM GMT

Eolas: Legal Battle "Back To Square
One" For Round Two

Eolas: Legal Battle "Back To Square
One" For Round Two 08/20/2004 08:08 AM
As we reported just yesterday, Eolas has lost two of three legal disputes with Microsoft over it's patent and licensing claims. Eolas now claims the fight is far from over and has mailed an "office action" to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Eolas says the patent office had wrongfully withdrawn 10 of it's previous claims, including a previous finding from February. Eolas attorney Martin Lueck, of Minneapolis-based Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, said the patent office examiner had issued a new action—based on yet another piece of "prior art"—to reject the patent's claims. The prior-art piece was outside the examples offered by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), which brought the prior-art question to the attention of the patent office in November 2003.

"Eolas is attacking HTML itself. This goes to our heart," W3C CEO Steve Bratt said. "The patent could force Web site owners to modify their pages and server-side applications."

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WWW-Search-HotBot-2.29

WWW-Search-HotBot-2.29 12/30/2003 06:15 AM

Check out the NEW Hotbot

Check out the NEW Hotbot 09/18/2004 03:55 AM

r.hotbot.com/r/tp_embeddedtxthb/http://www.hotbot.com
track this site | 4 links

Hack Hotbot, but only in the US

Hack Hotbot, but only in the US 03/14/2003 02:27 PM
David S. over at mezzoblue, was interested in entering the hack hotbot contest. He was upset/confused to see that prizes...

Hack Hotbot, part II

Hack Hotbot, part II 03/13/2003 09:59 PM
Hey, I like the initiatives that Wired and Hotbot have shown recently just as much as the rest of the...

http://hack.hotbot.com

http://hack.hotbot.com 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Hotbot is having a page design contest. The perplexing thing is that they are calling it a "hacking contest". Hello!?

Hack Hotbot, Part III

Hack Hotbot, Part III 03/20/2003 02:11 PM
As the world’s attention has been shifted elsewhere, not much of note has happened recently in the wide world of design. For the sake of having interesting new things on this site, here are a few notes from my own battle in the trenches: the Hack Hotbot contest.

Hack Hotbot! (Or don’t even
bother)

Hack Hotbot! (Or don’t even
bother) 03/11/2003 02:00 PM
The old Wired search engine, HotBot, recently made news by switching to an all–CSS design. Now they’re rippling the waters again with their latest news.

Hotbot Updates Homepage, Adds 4-Pack of
Engines

Hotbot Updates Homepage, Adds 4-Pack of
Engines 12/16/2002 09:22 PM
After years of neglect, Hotbot redesigns and now features a 4pack of engines: FAST, Google, Inktomi and Teoma.

Imagine the fuss if Google did hybrid
desktop and web search - well the new
Hotbot toolbar already does

Imagine the fuss if Google did hybrid
desktop and web search - well the new
Hotbot toolbar already does 04/14/2004 10:34 PM
HotBot's New Desktop Search Toolbar: "HotBot's new Desktop Search utility not only searches the web, it indexes files and email...

TiVo Spins Round and Round

TiVo Spins Round and Round 08/27/2004 03:59 PM
Plus, Oracle's still in hot pursuit, and put me in, Coach!

Round one to Vonage; round two to the
states?

Round one to Vonage; round two to the
states? 10/31/2003 07:26 PM

Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times)

Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times) 08/12/2004 06:07 AM
Los Angeles Times - FORT MYERS, Fla. — As rare back-to-back tropical storms — one a hurricane, the other likely to become one — churned Wednesday toward Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush declared a statewide emergency and mobilized the National Guard. Tourists were told to evacuate the low-lying Florida Keys.

Livewire: Back to School Means Back to
Advergames (Reuters)

Livewire: Back to School Means Back to
Advergames (Reuters) 09/15/2004 03:18 PM
Reuters - Back to school for many kids means "back to Internet access" in classes where the best of filtering software is not foolproof, particularly against seemingly harmless Web sites used for invasive marketing.

POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back

POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back 09/11/2004 10:09 PM
TechTree Sep 12 2004 2:43AM GMT

To Florida WebmasterWorld Members - Back
Ups Back Ups

To Florida WebmasterWorld Members - Back
Ups Back Ups 09/02/2004 05:26 PM
In the face of a hurrican, do you have a diaster recovery plan?

Round Up: Where can you go next?

Round Up: Where can you go next? 05/28/2004 12:39 PM
newmediazero May 28 2004 4:57PM GMT

Round a about

Round a about 09/08/2004 03:32 AM
These images caused a great debate among my antipodean circle in London whether they are real or have been photoshopped. As far as we can gather it does exist. But it is surreal - and only in the UK surely would something like this be real.

PDC Round-Up day 4

PDC Round-Up day 4 10/31/2003 12:35 AM

Look round

Look round 04/16/2004 04:55 AM
USA Today Apr 16 2004 9:17AM GMT

"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy"

"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy" 02/10/2004 02:52 AM

Round Up: Not that special

Round Up: Not that special 06/16/2004 06:08 PM
newmediazero Jun 16 2004 9:21PM GMT

Round Up: Being creative

Round Up: Being creative 06/17/2004 11:39 AM
newmediazero Jun 17 2004 4:04PM GMT

Round Up: Virtually nowhere to go

Round Up: Virtually nowhere to go 04/23/2004 02:48 PM
newmediazero Apr 23 2004 6:26PM GMT

Rip Digital Round 3

Rip Digital Round 3 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Bob Kohn has responded to yesterday's comments from Rip Digital founder Dick Adams regarding the potential illegality of the CD ripping service. Let me sum it all up: Kohn thinks they might get sued; Adams thinks they won't; I think the RIAA is a misguided organization at best, whose current command of logic and decency is unpredictable. I can't help but have this sinking feeling that we're just throwing out chum for the music industry's lawyers at this point, so I'm glad we've reached this agreement to disagree.

Gizmodo Responds Re: Digital Ripping Service [BobKohn]

Round #2 with Arnaud

Round #2 with Arnaud 04/08/2005 03:14 PM

Here's Arnaud's reply to my comments....

Great, Marc Canter found some time to ans wer my questions. SO time to comment on his answers.

He confirms my suspicion that OPML is a good way to store and exchange MicroContent (he wrote it as micro-content by the way). They did use Weboutliner for that. I have to play with outliners to see what can be done. See if I can get the Structured Blogging approach into OPML somehow.

He also explains why he likes Structured Blogging. The main reason is that it is an effort to get things going. I agree with him here. If I look at the number of clients which I can relate to MicroContent, it is staggering. It is time to get this local information published in a structured way. It shouldn't be left on someone's PC. And Structured Blogging helps here. Time to dive into it a bit more.

Marc Canter sees a lot happening in the field of MicroContent. Great! I've become a lot less pessimistic, so it is good to hear he sees some movement going on. We will get at MicroContent nirvana in the end!

By the way, I like the fact that Marc Canter answers me on his weblog and not in my comments. We have a public conversation, but we stay owner of the things we write, as we publish it on our own weblog. This kind of conversation corresponds to the ideas put forward on the Datalibre mailing-list. Any evidence of a conversation should be visible in the trackbacks.

[MicroContent Musings]

:-)

There's another reason I've been using the public reply technique - comments are broken. Not only my TypeKey comments - but comments in general. They're being turned off in droves and they hide the thread from view. I prefer to see things out in the open. Perhaps notifation or some sort of Attention.xml standards can change all that.

But that's not my area or work or exertise right now.

Micro-content is. However we spell it.

Arnaud is one of those true believers too - so I'm going to use this thread with him - to highlight a bunch of different things I've wanted to be known in public - on the record - for sometime now.

I'm not really amazed at how smart Arnaud is - as it takes that to grok all this stuff. As is Thomas Van Der Wahl - who I've been getting to know receenly - but that's another post. I met Thomas at SXSW and he calls DLAs 'Info Clouds' (with a space in the middle) - but that's what's MOST beautiful about these ideas.

I'm sure Michael Sippey and Ben Trott have their own name for all this at 6A - and I bet Barak has HIS own term for it - but we're all (hopefully) working on the same principles.

So here are some fresh replies to Arnaud......

1. Yes OPML rocks, It has since the day it was explained to me by Dave Winer at his house the week he created it. Our outliner - the WebOutliner - uses OPML as it's native form and we did LOTS of work on extending it for various purposes (see below.)

2. So let me tell you about some experiments we did on BOTH Structured Blogging (which is what it's being called right now) and storing MicroContent (properly spelled with the in-cap) in OPML.

2a.

The Birthday party activity

So way back like almost three years ago I run into a writer and XS LT scriptor named Chuck White who had written several books on it - and who wanted to put it to use - with a real interface.

So Chuck and I worked on an example UI - which took some wizard collected info, converted it to OPML and sent it to our weboutliner. That structured data was designed to represent all the info needed to encompass a group based community birthday party.

It worked. It rocked. And one day I'll put it up to show everyone. But for now let me explain how it worked and what it proved.

3. First one selected: what kind of Group, named the Group and decided who was an initial member of a Group. This was all created from a simple web page - but ws designed to work via mobile. To become what I promised Hward Rheingold "Tools for the Mob".

4. The human was then passed into an activity grid - at which point they'd select one category of activities; such as after-school or sports or at-home fun - and then were sent through detailed tab dialogs - which enabled one to fill in all the meta-data regarding this selected activity (how many tables to set up?, what games?, by what rules?)

5. Now with our micro-content (sorry I mean MicroContent) activity data all loaded up - we XSLTed the data into OPML and sent it to our weboutliner - which (presumably)_ would be running an extension to support that particular activity and it's associated meta-data. The underlying notion was that we could transform this data into any form, for any kind of output, format or device.

6. It worked like a charm, was easy enough to be categorized as "situated" by Clay Shirky and allowed me to extend the outliner tool metaphor into what I now call a "stucture editor".

7. Humans certainly understand:

I - Plan party-- define basic party meta-data -- select music and images to play at party -- set up party web site and blog -- establish plans/agenda for party

II - Send out invites-- plug in list of names or retrieve previous names
-- send out invites
-- status of invites (data sent to dashboard)

III - Throw party-- start executing agenda for the day - drive media devices
-- execute milestone during party
-- change party machines to upload stations

IV - Memories-- collect memeoires after party
-- send out thank you notes
-- archival commenting

It's just a matter of how the UIs implement this sort of structure.

7. All this work will appear - soon - in a 'Family Oriented DLA' we're working on.

Still trying to figure out Arnaud's last name...... :-) And where he lives and what he does as a day job. I hope he's really a php hacker looking for work - that would make it PERFECT!

DDR2 The Second Round

DDR2 The Second Round 03/22/2005 05:04 PM

Poll round-up

Poll round-up 08/12/2004 06:29 PM
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll out today indicates that young voters have become lopsidedly pro-Kerry over the last several months. Taken just after the Democratic National Convention, the poll shows registered voters aged 18 to 29 choosing Kerry over Bush by a 2 to 1 margin. This is especially bad news for the president, who split the youth vote almost evenly with Al Gore in 2000. The Post reports that a pre-convention Newsweek poll gave Kerry a 51 to 32 percent edge in the same age group, and a post-convention CBS/New York Times poll was almost identical with 50 percent for Kerry and 31 percent for Bush.

Round One... Fight!

Round One... Fight! 03/22/2005 11:38 PM
Pop Quiz Hotshot: You're in the middle of an arena. You're being attacked by 5 year olds who will stop at nothing to kill you. How many can you take on before they overcome you? (from twobytwo forums)

In Next Round, No Certainties

In Next Round, No Certainties 01/28/2004 10:17 AM
As the campaign shifts from an expectations game to a fight for real delegates, Howard Dean needs to win somewhere.

Round-Robin SQL

Round-Robin SQL 03/25/2005 05:16 PM
RRS version 0.4 released

Round Up: To be expected

Round Up: To be expected 07/09/2004 01:11 PM
newmediazero Jul 9 2004 5:06PM GMT

Round Up: Deterrent

Round Up: Deterrent 07/20/2004 01:07 PM
newmediazero Jul 20 2004 5:09PM GMT

Round Up: Know who you're dealing with

Round Up: Know who you're dealing with 02/13/2004 01:27 PM
newmediazero Feb 13 2004 5:14PM GMT
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