W3C Talks in February
Grok Headline matches for W3C Talks in February
W3C Team Talks in February
W3C Team Talks in February
02/03/2003 07:22 PM3 February 2003: On 5 February, Yasuyuki Hirakawa, Kazuhiro Kitagawa
and Masayasu Ishikawa present at PAGE2003 (in Japanese) in Tokyo,
Japan. On 12-13 February, Philipp Hoschka and Thierry Michel speak at
SMIL Europe 2003 in Paris, France. On 17 February, Massimo Marchiori
presents at the International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge
Management (MKM 2003) in Bertinoro, Italy. Browse upcoming W3C
appearances and events. (News archive)
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: February 08, 2004 - February
14, 2004 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: February 08, 2004 - February
14, 2004 Archives
02/10/2004 01:35 PMsounding evasive, incoherent and out of touch .. Josh Marshall ..
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Marshall: February 01, 2004 - February
07, 2004 Archives"
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Marshall: February 01, 2004 - February
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Marshall: February 15, 2004 - February
21, 2004 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: February 15, 2004 - February
21, 2004 Archives
02/17/2004 12:57 PMThis is the arsonist in your house telling you that stranger outside
with the hose can't be trusted .. Democratswould threaten fiscal
health .. ever ..
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BenQ P50 in February for $800
BenQ P50 in February for $800
01/06/2005 02:56 PMBenQ finally showed off the P50 smartphone, with built-in Wi-Fi and
GSM/GPRS radios, as well as a 1.3-megapixel camera. The bummer is they
are quoting a price of $800—almost twice as much as its main
competitor, the Treo 650 (after rebates).
B
enQ unveils WLAN smart phone with camera [Infoworld]
February 28, 2003
February 28, 2003
03/11/2003 09:44 AM
The social scientist Ray Oldenburg talks about how humans need a
third place, besides work and home, to meet with friends, have a beer,
discuss the events of the day, and enjoy some human interaction.
Coffee shops, bars, hair salons, beer gardens, pool halls, clubs, and
other hangouts are as vital as factories, schools and apartments ["The
Great Good Place", 1989]. But capitalist society has been eroding
those third places, and society is left impoverished. In "Bowling
Alone," Robert Putnam brings forth, in riveting and well-documented
detail, reams of evidence that American society has all but lost its
third places. Over the last 25 years, Americans "belong to fewer
organizations that meet, know our neighbors less, meet with friends
less frequently, and even socialize with our families less often."
[2000] For too many people, life consists of going to work, then going
home and watching TV. Work-TV-Sleep-Work-TV-Sleep. It seems to me that
the phenomenon is far more acute among software developers, especially
in places like Silicon Valley and the suburbs of Seattle. People
graduate from college, move across country to a new place where they
don't know anyone, and end up working 12 hour days basically out of
loneliness.
So it's no surprise that so many programmers, desperate for a
little human contact, flock to online communities - chat rooms,
discussion forums, open source projects, and Ultima Online. In
creating community software, we are, to some extent, trying to create
a third place. And like any other architecture project, the design
decisions we make are crucial. Make a bar too loud, and people won't
be able to have conversations. That makes for a very different kind of
place than a coffee shop. Make a coffee shop without very many chairs,
as Starbucks does, and people will carry their coffee back to their
lonely rooms, instead of staying around and socializing like they do
in the fantasy TV coffeehouse of "Friends," a program we watch because
an ersatz third place is less painful than none at all.
In software, as in architecture, design decisions are just as
important to the type of community that develops or fails to develop.
When you make something easy, people do it more often. When you make
something hard, people do it less often. In this way you can gently
encourage people to behave in certain ways which determine the
character and quality of the community. Will it feel friendly? Is
there thick conversation, a European salon full of intellectuals with
interesting ideas? Or is the place deserted, with a few dirty
advertising leaflets lying around on the floor that nobody has
bothered to pick up?
— Excerpted from my latest article, “Building
Communities with Software,” which will only be sent to email
subscribers. Please subscribe now to receive the article, which will
be sent out on Monday morning.
February 25, 2003
February 25, 2003
03/11/2003 09:44 AM
The discussion forum for this site generates a lot of questions and
commentary. As I said when I launched it, it's a bit of an experiment.
Although it may seem simple, there are a lot of subtle design
decisions and magic-behind-the-scenes in hopes of improving the
quality of discussion that takes place there. So far, it has mostly
worked.
Later this week I'll write an essay explaining everything, but
because it's full of Heisenberg effects, the essay won't appear on
this web site, it will only go out via email to email subscribers. You
can subscribe here or at the bottom of any page on my site:
Don't worry, you can unsubscribe at any time; every email I send
includes a single-click unsubscribe link. I will never sell your email
address. Subscribe by Friday to be sure to get the essay. Once again
-- the essay will not appear on the web and will be copyright so I'll
ask you not to forward the email around. It's an exclusive benefit for
email subscribers.
February 14, 2003
February 14, 2003
03/11/2003 09:44 AM
Due to the poor sound quality of the previous CityDesk online demo,
I decided to invest in a real studio quality microphone instead of
using one of those cheap computer headset/mike combinations.
It took me a while to figure out what I needed. The mike itself is
a Shure
SM58, probably one of the most popular professional microphones in
use today and generally available for about $100.
I bought the Mic from Sam
Ash on 48th street, hoping that they would be able to get me
the right combination of cables and adapters I needed to plug this
thing into a standard sound card. The stoner DJ sales dude sounded
very confident but he didn't tell me that I needed a preamp, and he
gave me the wrong kind of cables.
If you're trying to do this yourself, here's exactly what I
have:
- the Shure SM58 microphone
- A basic desk stand. The clip part that connects the mike to the
stand comes with the mike.
- a 3' mic cable (it only needs to reach the preamp). I bought a CBI
LowZ Microphone Cable from Zzounds.
- A preamp. This boosts the level of the microphone to something
that is called "Line Level" which is what a computer sound card needs.
I got an M-Audio
AudioBuddy from Zzounds.
- To connect the preamp to the sound card, you need a cable with a
1/4" stereo phone jack on one end and a 1/8" stereo "mini" phone jack
on the other end. I assembled this out of two cables which I bought at
my neighborhood Radio Shack. For some reason the professional music
stores like Sam Ash and Zzounds think it is beneath their dignity to
stock any parts with 1/8" jacks, but that is what your sound card
needs.
The sound quality is really quite a bit better. Here are two MP3s,
before (with the computer mike)
and after (with the
professional mike).
February 05, 2003
February 05, 2003
03/11/2003 09:44 AM
Dave
asks: "When I get Slashdotted we get about 5000 reads.
I've noticed that number is about what some Manila and Radio sites
have gotten when they were Slashdotted. Now, according to Joel Spolsky
he gets about 400,000 reads from a Slashdot link, about 80 times the
flow. Now here's the question. Why?"
Actually, I said 500,000, not 400,000, and I was referring to
hits, not "reads." I'm not sure what a read is, but a hit is
a single file served by the web server. Even the simplest page on this
site consists of four files: the header GIF, the Made with CityDesk
GIF, the CityDesk logo, and the article itself. Articles with pictures
have a lot more. The number of page views we get, which only counts
HTML files, is about 120,000 on "slashdot days." Since the average day
has about 30,000 page views, only 90,000 are "extra." Still a lot more
than Manila sites, but not 80 times the flow.
Another difference is that I almost always get slashdotted on a day
when I release a new article. This is coincidentally the same day I
send email to 16,000 subscribers telling them about the new article.
And on average a few dozen webloggers will link to me on the same day,
bringing in their traffic as well.
Some percentage of those people say, "Aha! This precisely proves my
point!" and forward the URL to their boss or underling to hit them
over the head with it. "See? Nya!" So there's always a multiplier
effect.
Finally, Joel on Software has enough old content that many new
visitors stay a while and click around. That accounts for a lot of the
extra traffic on Slashdot days.
February 04, 2003
February 04, 2003
03/11/2003 09:44 AM
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I've moved
Joel on Software to a new
server, at a colocation facility operated by
Peer 1 Network. In the process of
finding a new home and getting it up and running I've learned quite a
bit about how web hosting works, so I thought I'd describe a bit of it
here and in the process provide a glimpse
Behind The Scenes.
February 03, 2003
February 03, 2003
03/11/2003 09:44 AM
New Column
I just got the March copy of the Programmer's Paradise catalog,
which contains the first installment of my new column, a review of VMware, on
page 11. “By the twentieth time I'd installed Windows 2000, I
could do it in my sleep, even though I don't know a word of
Chinese.” The only way to read the column is to get the catalog,
which you can do for free here.
I've already written the next two columns for the catalog: a review
of ERwin and an article about user interface design. Also in the
pipeline: reviews of LeadTools, Camtasia Studio, and DevPartner
Studio. Unlike most software reviewers who write for the magazines,
who spend just enough time with a the product to get 750 words worth,
I plan to review things that we actually use on a daily basis here at
Fog Creek and talk about how we use them.
Commoditize Your Complements
Remember when I
wrote that “smart companies try to commoditize their
products’ complements?” We decided to take some of our own
advice, here, so as of today, FogBUGZ can be run on top
of MySQL, which is free, in addition to Microsoft SQL Server, which is
expensive.
We also support two more source code control systems: CVSNT and
Visual SourceSafe.
"February Stars"
"February Stars"
06/25/2004 10:29 AMFebruary 23, 2005
February 23, 2005
03/14/2005 05:44 PM
Phew! and w00t! Last night at about 7:35 FogBugz 4.0 finally went
live, on the exact day we planned to ship it quite a few months
ago.
I have put a lot of other things on hold while we got this major
upgrade out the door, so I'll be spending some time in catch-up mode
for the next few weeks. And now I'm going to take a nap.
The Large Print Giveth and the Small Print Taketh Away: What
we shipped today was FogBugz 4.0 for Windows. The Unix &
Mac versions are now in beta and will be shipping Real Soon
Now.
"February 8, 2004 05:18 PM"
"February 8, 2004 05:18 PM"
02/13/2004 02:37 PM"February 2003"
"February 2003"
01/03/2004 07:07 PM"February 2001"
"February 2001"
06/04/2004 05:03 PMFebruary 16, 2005
February 16, 2005
03/14/2005 05:44 PM
Jamie
Zawinski on Groupware: “So I said, narrow the focus.
Your ‘use case’ should be, there’s a 22 year old
college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him
laid?”
February 28, 2004
February 28, 2004
03/06/2004 01:51 AM
This thread in Ask Joel about
offshoring/outsourcing is much better than anything I could have
written on the subject myself. Ken sets up the strawman; eloquent
readers from around the globe tear it down.
February 17, 2005
February 17, 2005
03/14/2005 05:44 PM
Usability Time! When Microsoft AntiSpyware is running it displays this
dialog:
... which looks, to me, like it's telling me that it detected
spyware on my system.
Oh, wait! No, that's not it, it's just a lazy programmer who wrote
this code:
10 PRINT "DETECTED SPYWARE ON YOUR SYSTEM:"
20 FOR I = 1 TO
1000000000
30 IF SPYWARE(I) THEN PRINT FILENAME(I)
40 NEXT
I
I think I get it. It's the heading for a list which has not arrived
yet because you're still busy scanning my harddrive searching for
spyware which I don't have. The usual programmer mentality ("it's just
a list with 0 elements, what's so hard to understand about that?").
Hey guys, next time don't use a message that's only one pixel
away from telling me the exact wrong fact about whether
or not there's spyware on my system.
So far, it looks like this is a nifty program, and consumers should
be happy that Microsoft has announced it will be free, but it really,
really would have been nice for us here in the software industry if
Microsoft had set a price on this thing just to provide some air cover
for the other companies working on spyware removal. This is
not a software category where a monopoly monoculture will be
a good thing.
Not only that, but I wonder if Microsoft can run an
antispyware product without huge conflicts of interest. For example,
will they block all the spyware that Real installs on your
system? While Real is suing them? Especially when blocking
spyware from Real will just give Real more ammunition to use against
Microsoft in court? And the next time Microsoft needs a DRM favor from
your friendly neighborhood media conglomerate, will the media
conglomerate demand exemption from Antispyware removal for their
adware in exchange for supporting Windows Media 37.0, with the new
brain-zapping feature that prevents you from humming any song unless
you bought the performance rights? (A sheet of tinfoil wrapped tightly
around your skull is effective against this zapper, I understand.)
I understand that Microsoft wants to help customers who feel like a
spyware-free operating system should be your right when you pay for
WinXP, but it's a shame that by giving it away free they're likely to
wipe out a useful industry and replace it with something that's
difficult to trust due to conflicts of interest.
February 27, 2004
February 27, 2004
03/06/2004 01:51 AM
I hope you're not all missing the excellent stuff going down on the
Ask Joel
forum.
On Apress: “
And although they would not put a doggie on the cover of my book as I
requested, because a certain other book publisher threatens to sue his
competitors when they put anything animal like within 90 feet of their
covers, their graphic designer worked overtime to create underground
cover art called User Interface Design for Doggies complete
with three golden retrievers, which they framed and sent to me.
”
On Microsoft Program Managers:
“ So the programmers
think they're deciding everything and the program managers think
they're deciding everything. How can they both be deciding everything?
They can't. Who is really deciding, then? Let me give you a hint. Of
the program managers and developers you know, on the whole, who has
better people skills? eh? speak up boy, I can't hear you. Duh! Of
course it's the program managers. You knew that. Developers couldn't
people-skill their way out of a summer intern party at BillG's
lakeside mansion. Developers have such weak people skills they can't
even imagine what people skills could be used for, other than the
purely theoretical concept of getting a theoretical date ("I ... like
... big BUTTS and I can not LIE..."), so it's no wonder they're not
even aware of the secret that I can finally reveal today. ”
On Lisp: “And I have the ultimate respect for Paul Graham -- I think there's
a good probability that in a year or two we will credit him with being
the man who solved spam. But I think that if you try to ignore the
fact that millions of programmers around the world have learned lisp
and don't prefer to use it, you're in the land of morbid cognitive
dissonance. ”
On Big-M Methodologies:
“ Everything about RUP, for example, is
obsessed with figuriing out what the business objects and business
rules are so you can do a payroll system. We do things like add spell
checkers to an editor window. ”
On Usable Programming APIs:
“Indexes are one based. That's how humans
count. Zero-based is better, I agree, but one-based is what humans
expect, and the program model must conform to the user model for ease
of use.”
On Starting Fog Creek:
“ The law firm that was recommended to us
was big and famous and wanted a $30,000 retainer just to talk to us.
There was a time during dotcom mania where you weren't someone unless
your law firm was VLG or MoFo. I was literally told that you had to
use VLG or maybe, distant second, MoFo, or I could never convince VCs
to invest. "They won't take you seriously if you don't have a serious
lawfirm." I snorted up my milk. ”
On teaching your boyfriend C++:
“ Forget it! Give up!
... Teach me about women's shoes and I will
feign interest and then promptly forget everything you told
me.”
On software pricing:
“With software sold in corporations, as
soon as your price gets up in the $3000 level, the amount of approval
it needs is so absurd that you are not going to sell products without
a salesperson making a few visits. Hiring the salesperson, sending
them out to make presentations, hotels, airfare -- now it costs
$50,000 to get the sale done just in sales closing costs. That's why
you see a lot of software products at $100,000 and a lot under $3000,
but anywhere in-between and it's impossible to make sales. ”
No PowerMacs in February?
No PowerMacs in February?
02/16/2004 09:30 AM
ThinkSecret updates with a number of small blurbs... the most
interesting of which involves some information of PowerMac G5 updates.
According to t...
February 20, 2004
February 20, 2004
03/06/2004 01:51 AM
Ask Joel
I'm running out of my own ideas for article topics. I was
going to write about how the search for autotrephination on
Google only has one result, which is surprising, considering
how there's an entire movie on
the subject, although I realized most people probably think
autotrephination would mean "automatic-drilling-of-holes-in-the-head"
when it's perfectly obvious to me that it should mean
"drilling-of-holes-in-one's-own-head" but, hey, what does a
word mean that has only been used once in the entire history
of Google? And what does it mean to say that a word means something if
nobody has ever used it? Anyway, I decided that writing about this
would be so headache-inducing you all would try to drill a hole in
my head so I didn't write anything about it.
Luckily, I have my readers for topic ideas. A lot of times people
email me saying, "I'd love to hear what you think about X." Sometimes,
that's enough to motivate me to write a long essay. But more often, my
opinion is far too shallow and insipid to justify such an effort, so I
dash off a paragraph or two to the email correspondent, or, more
often, file away the email in a folder full of things I would love to
respond to if we lived on Pluto and the day was 153.4 hours long
and humans didn't require that much sleep.
I decided to try out one of Philip Greenspun's ideas -- the Ask Philip Forum. So, without further ado, I have
recycled the dreary old "New Yorkers" forum, which was something of a
ghost town anyway, into the shiny new Ask Joel Questions
forum. There are still some old New York-related topics there.
Ignore them. Put the drill away. Thank you.
Linkers
The appropriate person at Microsoft ble
w off my request for a linker. The strongest argument he makes is
that Microsoft wants to be able to patch security bugs in the CLR
after I've shipped my program. This is a valid concern; when a major
security hole was found
in zlib everybody had to figure out which programs they had that used
it and recompile them all. I wasted a day of my life on that
particular bug. But it's easily solved by a simple technology of shims
or jump tables. Put on your thinking hat and you'll figure out how to
make a linker that produces a single executable plus a jump-table that
Microsoft can patch when they find a security hole. PS. Apple had this
technology in the original Macintosh, 1984.
His other argument about working set size is a decision that should
be left to developers. Let me pick the tradeoff I want to
make between ease of installation and working set size.
Look, I used to be a program manager at Microsoft, and there's a
really strong tendency in that culture to treat customer requests as
fun intellectual challenges to be fended off like exercises in
debating class. But I've been talking to customers since the days of
the Visual Basic 1.0 runtime in 1991 -- thirteen years ago! who have
been begging for this problem to be addressed. Jason, why don't you go
talk to somebody on the FoxPro team. In the late 80s FoxPro clobbered
dBase in the market mainly on the strength of the fact that it
compiled standalone executables. FoxPro had a linker. xBase developers
pleaded with Ashton-Tate, makers of dBase, to develop or
acquire a linker, but Ed Esber, reviled CEO of Ashton-Tate, refused to give them
one. Learn from your own history. (Thanks to Rick Chapman for
reminding me of history repeating itself.)
ISV's that I talk to agree that this is the #1 weakness of VB1-6
and .Net. I'm forced to conclude that Microsoft has grown so large
they are living in a reality-distortion field. I suppose it's not
unusual for someone working on a campus with 45 buildings all full of
Microsoft employees to lose track of what the outside world is
thinking and doing.
OK, anyway, there are third party alternatives. Jitit makes a thing
called Thinstall. I haven't
tried it. If someone out there wants to write an in-depth technical
review of this thing, please contact me and I'll try to get you a
review copy.
Elsewhere
Blogs I've been reading lately: Rory, Scoble, Raymond, Phil.
I loved the style, wittiness, humor and erudition of Why's (Poignant) Guide to
Ruby but I can't say I learned much about Ruby. Maybe in the
next chapter?
February 05, 2005
February 05, 2005
02/05/2005 09:52 PM
It's time for a server upgrade. For two years
a single server has hosted the bulk of our sites, including Joel on
Software, although a second smaller server has made an appearance.
Over the next few weeks there will be a massive upgrade, giving us six
top of the line, state of the art servers at the Peer 1 colo
downtown.
In the past I would have upgraded the system, installed it all, and
written an article about it. And then people would have emailed me to
suggest better ways to do things, but it would be too late.
So now for the first time ever, I'm going to publish a "live"
article here. So far, I haven't done anything. If you have any better
suggestions for how to do things, it's not too late for me to learn
from your experience. As we go along, I might have a few questions for
my readers who have experience with this stuff.
Colo Expansion Part 1
The Daily Cartoon for February 12
The Daily Cartoon for February 12
02/11/2004 07:13 PMToday's Daily Cartoon
VOIP Webinar February 25
VOIP Webinar February 25
02/12/2004 03:36 PMIf you haven't already heard enough
from
me about the policy issues surrounding voice over IP, I'm
participating
in a live Webinar organized by Telecom Policy Report. The
announcement is below. My involvement is purely as a panelist,
and as you can see there's at $279 charge for the event, but it should
be a good discussion.
Regulatory Challenges and
Business
Opportunities
in the Brave New World of VoIP
An exclusive "Web-enabled Virtual Seminar" From
Telecom
Policy Report
Wednesday, February 25, from 1:30 - 3:00 PM
EST
Right
from your desktop or conference room
Sign your whole team up for
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Register
Now
Telecom Policy Report and PBI Media, LLC, invite you
to a
Virtual Seminar on the brave new world of Internet telephony.
Designed to go
beyond the focus on the debate over the regulatory treatment of Voice
over
Internet Protocol (VoIP), our distinguished expert panel of technology
analysts,
consultants and counsel will discuss how to deal with the ultimate
regulatory
outcome. No conjecture...no focus on the debate itself.
Instead, analysis of
the implications of the potential rules and the experiences of
carriers already
making the transition to VoIP will take center stage.
Be sure to set aside Wednesday, February 25, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00
p.m., for
a lively discussion lead by the experts in this advanced technology
and how it
could...or even should... be regulated by rules created for
telecom
transmission technologies. You'll gather insights into the
potential impact on
a wide range of carrier-related issues and concerns. This 90-minute
interactive
forum will offer answers to complex questions such as:
-
How can regulators apply to VoIP rules created for older telecom
transmission technologies and the PTSN?
-
How will VoIP affect intercarrier payments? What role will VoIP
service
providers play in the future of universal service and USF?
-
How will the transmission of VoIP and the reduced need for a
wireline
infrastructure affect the big telcos' business customers-the
cornerstone of
their success?
-
What are the technical challenges and financial risks facing
carriers as
they transition to VoIP and businesses as they embrace the
technology?
Our distinguished panel of top telecom experts include: [Register]
-
Kevin Werbach, CEO of SuperNova Group. As a recent
policy-maker,
he'll have the inside track on VoIP implications as well as the
government's
likely approach.
-
Lawrence J. Spiwak, President of the Phoenix Center for
Advanced
Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies will help the participants
dissect
the regulatory and legislative challenges posed by VoIP.
-
James B. Ramsay, General Counsel for NARUC will lay out
the states'
case for and against regulating VoIP, and provide potential response
outcomes.
-
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provide
insight into how lawmakers view VoIP and impending ramifications on
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Good Reading from February
Good Reading from February
03/06/2004 01:59 AM
A few links from the month:
On the Third Hand: February 11, 2004
On the Third Hand: February 11, 2004
02/12/2004 01:26 AMthis week's edition of the Carnival of the Vanities .. On the Third
Hand
site-essential.com/blog/11Feb04.shtml#003555
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site | 5 links
The Daily Cartoon for February 11
The Daily Cartoon for February 11
02/10/2004 11:51 PMToday's Daily Cartoon
Pew February Tracking Poll
Pew February Tracking Poll
04/14/2004 06:26 AMPew February Tracking Pollhttp://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_April2004_Data_Memo.p
dfIn their poll in February, they recorded their
highest readings ever on the number of Internet users who participate
in online auctions, and the number of Americans who use computers. In
addition, they received their first reading ever on wireless
connectivity.
* 17% of Internet users have logged on using
a wireless device. This is the first reading they have ever attempted
on wireless connectivity. Members of Gen Y (those ages 18-27) are far
and away the most likely to have used
wireless devices - 28%
have done so.
* 23% of U.S. Internet users have
participated in online auctions. This is the highest reading on online
auctions they have ever recorded. This online activity is still the
province of men more than women, the relatively well-to-do, and those
who have lots of online experiences.
* 65% of Internet
users have purchased a product online. This is their highest reading
on e-commerce.
* 73% of American adults (those 18 and over)
use computers. This is the highest computer-adoption rate they have
ever measured. This file has a table of the basic demographics of
computer users.
* 63% of American adults use the Internet -
that translates to 128 million people. This file has a table of the
basic demographics of Internet users.
* 55% of Internet
users go online during a typical day.
* 53% of Internet
users have six or more years of experience.
The full report
contains a demographic breakdown of computer users and Internet users
and is available for downloading at the above listed URL.
TRU February Figure Promotion
TRU February Figure Promotion
01/24/2004 02:51 PMToys "R" Us is currently running ads for an upcoming figure promotion
that will run throughout February. Not a great deal is know about the
promotion, except that for each $14.99 purchase of
Star Wars
toys you will receive an action figure worth $4.99. Does this fit in
with
our
earlier news that TRU stock computers now list a new "Clone
Trooper" figure? In seven days we will know more. With thanks to
TRUJedi for sending in the report.
SRL show in Vegas in February!
SRL show in Vegas in February!
01/08/2004 07:46 PMFormer BoingBoing guestblogger and Survival Research Laboratories
engineer
Karen Marcelo says:
"Interested in joining SRL for some fear and loathing in vegas on feb
7 2004? Tickets are available online now, right here.
We will be bringing pretty much *everything* and making about 20
brand new sneaky soldiers by then!"
More info here on the
SRL website.
Dothan debut due 15 February
Dothan debut due 15 February
12/12/2003 05:44 AM'D' day
2 February 2004 is Prescott Day
2 February 2004 is Prescott Day
12/04/2003 01:09 PMThe Daily Cartoon for February 13
The Daily Cartoon for February 13
02/13/2004 12:07 PMToday's Daily Cartoon
The Daily Cartoon for February 14
The Daily Cartoon for February 14
02/13/2004 09:10 PMToday's Daily Cartoon
Pro News : February 28, 2003
Pro News : February 28, 2003
03/13/2003 10:20 AMStop-motion animation app comes to OS X; Group aims to put Mac in home
theater; Mask Pro gets X rating; Quark opens a Jaguar-lined kimono;
Snowmint updates Budget, unleashes Planner; Ham radio apps get
updated; iLink get tweaked; ODBC middleware moves to X; 4D gunning for
Apache; Scrapbook apps finetuned; Online training app gets new
features
Oliver, Daily: 18 February
Oliver, Daily: 18 February
06/11/2004 05:02 AMthe Oliver Dog and the Hugo Dog .. has a good-looking dog .. as
inspired by .. Oliver, Daily
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News : February 27, 2003
News : February 27, 2003
03/13/2003 10:20 AMThe Earthlink (NASDAQ:ELNK) board of directors announced on February
24th
that it had authorized an additional $25 million for use in
repurchasing its
common stock, bringing the total authorization to $50 million.
CodeBitch : February 24, 2003
CodeBitch : February 24, 2003
03/13/2003 10:20 AMIn which CodeBitch ruminates on the fate of Opera for Mac
Grok Description matches for W3C Talks in February
GrokA matches for W3C Talks in February
W3C Talks in February
