April 10, 2001
Scientific American: The Semantic Web.
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila. The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users.
Internet World: Innovation Is Alive at PC Forum.
Jakob Nielsen. Esther Dyson's recent PC Forum conference vividly showed that innovation is still alive despite the current downturn in the stock market. Several new technologies addressed the Internet's persistent usability problems. Here are two.
MIT Technology Review: Corporation, Know Thyself.
Lotus Development's Discovery Server targets that very problem. Discovery's biggest promise is not that it can dredge up an obsolete document written by a long-departed corporate drone, but that it can connect you with the people in your company who are most likely to help you...
News.Com: Windows XP won't support USB 2.0.
Microsoft said it will not include support for USB 2.0, the latest iteration of the universal serial bus connection technology, in Windows XP. Microsoft will instead throw its support behind IEEE 1394, also known as FireWire, which was developed by Apple.
Forbes: NBCi: The Proud Peacock's Folly.
NBC's decision to buy back what's left of NBCi seems, at this point, painfully obvious. But NBCi is a virtual museum of Internet nuttiness--a company so rife with folly that it's worth revisiting.
Interactive Week: Motorola: Handhelds, Cell Phones Get Cozy.
A press release on the device appeared prematurely on the Motorola Web site Friday, revealing unannounced details for the U.S. version of the device. The cell phone giant wasn't ready to announce the U.S. version yet but, because of the Web glitch, decided to fill in the blanks.
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