Taken 19 September 1998. Netscape is viewing a webpage from the web server Apache on the localhost. The GIMP toolbar is near the bottom left, which I used to take and save the screenshot. The DOS emulator is busy running DOS in a box, and the Windows emulator is running Minesweeper off my Windows drive. The Redhat control panel is to the right. Xearth is updating in the background, making one wonder why MS makes such a big fuss over ‘Active Desktop’ when such features come automatically under X as a side-effect of a good system design.
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In light of Microsoft Vista’s tardy, ho-hum arrival–and its incomprehensible, off-strategy “Wow!” marketing campaign–let’s revisit, and hopefully debunk, a commonly held myth about Microsoft, namely, that the company has “bad” technology, but compensates with it’s “good/great” marketing.
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There is little doubt that RSS is a disruptive, game-changing technology. The so called Really Simple Syndication (previously also called Rich Site Summary and RDF Site Summary), has powered a fundamentally new way to deliver and consume web content. Before RSS, users had to visit individual web sites to find out what was new. Today, news is delivered via RSS directly to web browsers, desktops and aggregators. With RSS, the dynamics of the web changed into an on-demand medium.RSS usage has since spread beyond simple news delivery. Companies like de.licio.us, Flickr and YouTube added another dimension to RSS - i.e. they made it an integral part of the Social Web (social networking, photos, video, etc). Also Google built Google Base, its Craigslist competitor, entirely on RSS. Other companies too are beginning to extend RSS, sometimes with proprietary extensions.
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Not even Henry Wang’s mother understands what he does.But he’s paid $1,000 a month to do it.
Wang, a 17-year-old from DeKalb, has been called a digger, a seeder, a navigator — even a filter.
But Wang calls himself “dirtyfratboy” — his online nickname on Netscape.com and Digg.com, for which he recommends articles to millions of potential readers.
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