"InForm is a decentralized, peer-to-peer sharing system, based on a plugins architecture. Currently, InForm is available with just a plugin for the Favorites Sharing. InForm without plugins doesn't make anything."

"MailMole inhibits web creepy crawlers from snatching email addresses on a web page. This is accomplished by using custom JavaScript code. See for yourself... You won't find an any email address embedded in this HTML frame, guaranteed. Yet, oh wait, an email is located right below? Hmm... The JavaScript has three arguments for your convience: name, domain, and email subject."

"In the first place, open source is about to get a very big boost because the dot-com economy is tanking. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but open source guru Bruce Perens was right when he recently observed that a slow economy presents the best opportunities for open source. (Please see Resources for more information.) Free software is where you turn when you no longer have money to burn. That's exactly the position the dot-coms find themselves in right now. The dot-coms aren't floundering because the opportunities aren't there. They're floundering because they got spoiled on the irrational exuberance of investors and didn't learn how to spend their money wisely. Open source is in a perfect position to benefit from the lessons in frugality that these companies will now have to learn."

"The six-month-old collie-Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross is recovering from major surgery to remove a 15-inch serrated knife from his stomach.

He was only 18 inches long and 18 inches tall when the knife was taken out.

"So good ole Dubya has become the 33 1/3 president of the United States, spoken of compassion and then forced young girls to live with their sexual mistakes. But what do Americans really think of him?

If you really want to know what's going on in the world, you tap your query into a search engine. And what better engine than Google?"

"This document will show you how to use Blogger to store your site information in XML and then transform that XML into HTML on your server using PHP."

"The basic protocol being used in CD metadata query is both simple and general: "Tell me what you know about the resource whose CD checksum is some-huge-number" -- a protocol reminiscent of the PICS label bureau protocol. The MP3 community could build enormously useful services on top of this, even without adopting a more general framework such as that provided by RDF, but they have stopped short of the next step."

"The lesson for peer-to-peer metadata architecture is simple. Unique identifiers create markets."

"Anyone who's spent any time in New York City knows that when it begins to rain, two things happen immediately: It becomes easier to buy an umbrella and it becomes harder to hail a cab. As soon as the first few drops fall, people appear on the street selling cheap umbrellas, while a lucky few pedestrians occupy all the available cabs.

Why does an increase in demand produce opposite effects on supply -- more available umbrellas and fewer available taxis? The answer is the nature of the resources themselves. Umbrellas are small and inexpensive to store, so it's easy to take them out when it's raining and put them back when the rain stops. Additional umbrellas can be deployed in response to demand."

"Once at center stage in front of thousands of spectators, Bush gamely cocked a hip and put a gloved hand to his ear to listen for applause from the crowd -- as Martin had just done in his musical number "Cup of Life''.

Bush also tried a brief dance move with both hands on his hips."

"Yes, it's about time for an all-pervasive message plasma, provided that it works with and for us, not against us. What will make that possible is a common way of representing message metadata, message content, and component interfaces. Jabber's universal chat capability is cool, but its focus on XML-ized metadata, content, and interfaces is what really justifies the buzz."

"Cyber sex would allow people wearing virtual reality visors at opposite ends of the globe who have matching robots to see and hear each other on their Internet connection.

Choy said the online lovers could also program the system so that one partner could resemble the other's favorite celebrity."

"Blogger has a loyal following, demonstrated clearly by the enthusiastic response to its plea for contributions to pay for a new server.

But a long time ago, Mosaic was the only cool browser to use, and then came the browser wars. A year from now, could we be seeing the Blogger wars, as a gaggle of newer (but not necessarily better) content management / web publishing services come along to grab their share?"

"I think that the single aspect of Blogger that prevents a large number of clones is the lack of simple import/export functionality which could be utilised by other applications.

A competing webapp, to compete on features, would have to provide detailed instructions to help novice users get their data from Blogger in a machine-readable format. It's currently not worth it, and there's little if no incentive for the Pyra guys to provide a one-click export process."

"In this column David Mertz gives an up-to-date review of a half-dozen leading XML editors. He compares the strengths, weaknesses and capabilities of each -- especially for handling text-heavy prose documents. The column addresses the very practical question of just how one goes about creating, modifying, and maintaining prose-oriented XML documents."

""I don't want to reveal too much, but let's just say we put the Gin in Ginger," boasted Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems. McNealy later conceded he hasn't found out what Ginger is, exactly, but argued that like the Internet, "it isn't what you know, but whether or not people perceive that you know.""

"When the Digital Convergence Corporation introduced a device called the CueCat last summer, it promised to "revolutionize the way people interact with the World Wide Web" — specifically, through technology designed to link print and broadcast media to relevant pages on the Internet.

But as with many Internet ventures with lofty goals, Digital Convergence has run into a few roadblocks."

"When Americans are asked to identify the country from which America gained its independence, 76% correctly name Great Britain. A handful, 2%, think America's freedom was won from France, 3% mention some other country (including Russia, China, and Mexico, among others named), while 19% are unsure. "

"Probing a more universal measure of knowledge, Gallup also asked the following basic science question, which has been used to indicate the level of public knowledge in two European countries in recent years: "As far as you know, does the earth revolve around the sun or does the sun revolve around the earth?" In the new poll, about four out of five Americans (79%) correctly respond that the earth revolves around the sun, while 18% say it is the other way around."

"If you, an average caffeine consumer, see your peers enjoying "an even better in-store experience" and "shopping online while enjoying their beverage," as the press release predicts, won't you want get on board, too? Won't you want to feel the rush of a million blinking gadgetry advertisements, the miniscule text scrolling across your pager telling you that you got that house, the smart snap of the Enter key being hit? To get all those non-geeks thinking that it's fun to get online when they're not at work, that it's okay to incorporate the Internet into every aspect of their lives, Microsoft has to demonstrate its wares in a safe, non-threatening, non-technical environment. What better place to begin, then, than amid the tasteful lighting and woody hues of a Starbucks, conveniently located on every single corner of every single American city?"

""It's like a virtual girlfriend, but it happens to be Pamela Anderson," Eruptor founder and CEO Brad Foxhoven said. "If you don't take care of her she goes to bed, gets sick and is hated by everyone.""

"The company also touts "PortaPimp" and "PortaHo" games, where pimps and hookers fight each other for money."

"THE rivers of electronic information gushing around the world?s companies ought to reveal a lot about how people communicate within these organisations. But until now the very volume of data involved has defeated attempts to analyse it. A group of Finnish academic physicists has, however, developed some nifty software to help with the task."

"The main sifting technique employed is called a self-organising map. This projects the convoluted network of different types of communication between individuals on to a plane (see diagram). It does so by repeatedly adjusting the position of the individuals in the map, in order to minimise the distance between those whose communications have most in common. The trick behind this process is to find a mathematical formula that measures these distances efficiently, since the types of communication can be very different in nature. Dark islands on the map show clusters of individuals who are working strongly together. Weak bridges of communication link some of the islands. And deep channels of silence isolate certain islands entirely."

"While it's of dubious value for daily use, Facemail can be a lot of fun. I wrote a facemail in which I had a character wink every few words and stutter. "I I ;-) I I I feel buh buh bugs crawling :-( under my skin. :-(" I wrote. The face stuttered, twitched, made strange faces, and looked deeply disturbed. I sent it to a friend who sent me back his own crazy Facemail. It was pretty cool."

"But what will be the ultimate legacy of Java? The anti-Microsoft crowd said that Java would allow Sun to finally make inroads against Microsoft's dominance of the desktop. But in the final analysis, Java was nothing more than a ploy to capture the public's interest and, in so doing, boost Sun's stock price. And it worked marvelously. Java's introduction in 1995 marked the beginning of what was essentially a five-year climb in the price of Sun's stock: $1,000 invested in Sun on July 1995 would have been worth $18,535 at the close of trading on December 30th, 2000. Now that's the power of Java."

"The story that you usually see in the press is about an arrogant 26-year-old multimillionaire who thinks that he knows everything. You see this spin most often, but there's another spin too: There's this really bright 26 year old who's been quite successful and who's scared. "Oh, my goodness, I've got to run this meeting," he thinks. "I'm going to have to meet with this team, and then I'm going to have to go to dinner with them. I'm terrified. I'm just pretending to be the chief technology officer. I'm really just a computer hacker who got sucked into this world.""

"Blogger has helped get a lot of nice folks onto the web. It's made it easy, up until recently, for folks to get weblogs up and running in a hurry. So what do you owe them? Contractually, nothing. They made no demands of you, and now you can pack up your content and march on down the road to another 'blog services provider. But I think that when somebody does you a good turn, the least you can do is think about what you can do to return the favor. Whether it is just be compassionatly quiet and listen, or try to help solve the problem, there is usually some way to help.

And what will you get for your help? No, no stock options or IPO's; no job offers or discounts. Just the knowledge that you were part of the dream. Part of the team. Part of a community."

"Napster may go by the wayside because it may just sell out. That's apparently what's going on now. But people will continue to find ways to share the music that has affected them. With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music. Fuck 'em. "

"This article follows the process of recording the material to the hard disk, editing and filtering it with signal processing software, and finally creating an audio CD from the results, complete with custom covers for the jewel case. I'll present and describe the tools used in each stage of the process, and I'll explain how you too can turn your computer into a powerful audio CD mastering machine, using only free and open-source Linux software."

"The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It’s easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture’s attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we’re suspicious of strangers. They’re a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web. They are what give the Web its matter, its shape, its value. Rather than hiding in our tents and declaring our world to exist of the other tents near us – preferably with a nice tall wall around us – the Web explicitly is a world only because of the presence of so many strangers."

"As market demands get greater, traditional software engineering is marching full force into the web world. Out go the scripting hackers and in move the systems architects armed with J2EE specification and CORBA components and distributed transaction monitors and with all of that their software lifecycle methods such as Rational Unified Process. RUP is held up by many to be the silver bullet for object oriented success. Rational are pushing their business into the ".com" enterprise. However, several authors have expressed concern about the effect that RUP might have on the User Experience. Here is some of the latest analysis... "

"Prosecutors know that death-qualifying a jury is a great way to help ensure a conviction. That, say experts, is one reason why many of them -- particularly in jurisdictions with high death-penalty rates like Texas, Florida, Illinois, Virginia, California and Pennsylvania -- deliberately overcharge in murder cases even where they know the death penalty is not appropriate or likely.

In other words, the process can lead to higher conviction rates -- and most likely to more wrongful convictions -- not just in capital cases, but in other murder cases, too."

"What we're trying to say is that we're low on funds, which has kept us from making the hardware investments needed to keep the Blogger service snappy and fun. So, we're turning to you, our loyal users, for help. With a small donation to the Blogger Server Fund, you can show your support for Blogger helping people publish on the web for a year and a half (absolutely free and without ads!). And, most importantly, you will help bring Blogger back up to speed, so it'll be more enjoyable for everyone. (And if we get enough, we'll even be able to add some groovy new features that are waiting in the wings, which also take extra processing power.) "