April 6, 2001
Salon: Personalize me, baby.
Like Firefly, Media Unbound is offering a personalized recommendation system that will suggest bands you might enjoy, based on ones that you already like. Unlike Firefly, Media Unbound does what it promises to do: introduce new, obscure bands you'll actually like.
Publish: Labor of love.
Christopher Locke. The real difference between USA Today and Joe’s page is not the inflated notion of "objectivity," but production budget and ROI. Joe doesn’t have a business plan. He doesn’t need one. With Web entry costs so low, return on investment is immaterial.
Wired News: Fine Print Not Necessarily in Ink.
And that's the problem with terms of service agreements. The ubiquitous, legalistic documents posted on every big site are rarely read by anyone, yet they often grant sweeping rights to companies. Or do they? Legal experts say the soundness of such terms is shaky at best.
Webmonkey: IE 6 Switches to Standards.
Jeffrey Veen. The new version is essentially two browsers: one that faithfully does things the old way, bugs and all, and one that follows Netscape's lead and gets the standards right. As a result, you get to decide which way your page should be displayed.
Glenn Fleishman: A Billion Conflicts a Second.
The groups representing each standard are talking, but the results of conversations won’t affect currently deployed equipment; it may be until 2002 until new standards that allow better co-existence find their way into shipping equipment.
ZDNN: Start-up builds around alternative wireless standard.
Chipmaking start-up Atheros is tuning in to 802.11a, a standard that promises both higher performance and lower power consumption. This summer, the company will begin selling its new wireless kit, called the AR500.
Network World: High-speed wireless LANs are coming.
Net executives face a range of problems - and opportunities - with the faster radio technology. These include installing many more wireless access points than today's wireless LANs need, higher power consumption for laptop interface cards, security, and remote administration and network management.
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