by Tom | Oct 10, 2000 | General
Smart agents — web crawling agents as opposed to stored preferences ina database — have three things going against them: Agents’ performance degrades with network growthAgents ask people to do what machines are good at (waiting) and machines to do...
by Tom | Oct 7, 2000 | General
Neat little article on Forbes: Does your website sing?.24 notes about Napster Read them.WAP is dead (or at least mortally wounded. Nielsen says so – it must be true! Seriously, I’ve been saying this for months.
by Tom | Oct 5, 2000 | General
The stock market isn’t valuing companies the way it used to. A Business 2.0 article discusses the issue.A Pike edit
by Tom | Sep 10, 2000 | General
New job, but ETP still works. Amazing stuff.Sadly, being behind a proper corporate firewall means that I can’t use Radio Userland or any of the more groovy functions. I guess this will have to change at some stage, but it’s going to be hard to teach people...
by Tom | Sep 6, 2000 | General
You’ve gotta laugh – a Barney book made of badly-recycled adult mags is now worth a multi-million lawsuit. Why so much? What is the price of innocence?A useful summary of things to watch out for in developing user documentation. User Interface Engineering...
by Tom | Aug 29, 2000 | General
Now this sounds interesting (but therefore also frightening). Some guys at MIT have invented (are inventing?) a fingerprinting technology for music. The theory is that however you munge a track, so long as humans are going to listen to it, you can uniquely identify...
by Tom | Aug 22, 2000 | General
2600 article about the DeCSS farago. Interesting, depressing, and reminds me of the evening I spent in a 2600 van in NYC. Those were the days!
by Tom | Aug 21, 2000 | General
It’s official – the Earth is warming. Scientists saw clear water at the North Pole recently.
by Tom | Aug 6, 2000 | General
What would you choose? Final Meal Requests Sick but strangely fascinating.This might work as a summary of how the internet industry fits together. Internet Indicators | What are the Internet Economy Indicators?An article about Flutter.com uses the magic phrase...
by Tom | Jul 31, 2000 | General
Need some games?BrightPlanet have a white paper on their deep web.An important NY Times article about the DeCSS case. Is software protected speech under the First Amendment?
