March 12, 2001
Salon: Do you kick Yahoo?
Scott Rosenberg. All of which raises the obvious question: Plainly, the market's pundits were way off a year ago, at the pinnacle of Net stock mania; so why should we put any more stock in them now? Their downside is looking just as insane as their upside.
Boston Globe: Rated X, for Xtra Insight.
On this graph, the adoption of client-server computing in the 1980s and the commercialization of the World Wide Web, in 1994 and 1995, are mere twitches. What really rattles the line up the Richter scale, in 2001, is something the Oracle, better known as George Colony, founder of Forrester Research, has dubbed X Internet.
Web Reference: Interview with Dave Winer.
Radio is a personal Web application server. It comes with a nice app that gets news via RSS and publishes a blog and RSS channels as output. But the app is just there as a bootstrap, to give developers ideas, and to give users a way to get started.
Inside: Copy This! Can 'Military' Technology Beat Digital Piracy?
A small Austin start-up run by intelligence community alums is parachuting into the burgeoning, post-Napster, copy-protection market with a remarkably thin, invisible software product that claims to offer nearly invincible armor for music, video, film and e-books alike.
Wired News: E-Mail Privacy Remains Elusive.
Fewer than 10 million people use PGP, the most popular method for encrypting e-mail. That's out of a worldwide Internet population approaching 400 million. "We've had trouble getting PGP employed across the breadth of society," lamented Philip Zimmermann, the inventor of PGP.
Interactive Week: VeriSign Critics Press For Investigation.
Companies that compete with domain name registration giant VeriSign lined up Monday to rail against a proposed agreement that would give the one-time monopoly continued dominance of the coveted .com name space, with some calling for a new antitrust investigation by the EC.
NY Times: Pushing Ahead With Online Education.
Beyond the obvious hurdle of getting consumers to pay for information they think they can get free elsewhere on the Web, online education companies have failed to dispel the image of e-learning as a feeble alternative to the real thing.
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