April 13, 2001
NY Times: Law Professor Sees Hazard in Personalized News.
Those who applaud the rise of the Daily Me say it increases personal freedom saves wasted time. But in "Republic.com," an alarming new book that explores the relationship between new technologies and democratic self-government, Sunstein distances himself from the cheering crowd.
The Economist: Design Darwinism.
Mr Nielsen and his colleagues of the Nielsen Norman Group are on to something. If use of the web is to become ubiquitous, “user interfaces” have to get a whole lot better. The slow adoption of the wireless Internet in Europe and America so far should be seen as a bright red warning light.
Industry Standard: Minitel – the Beta Internet Breaks Out.
Seizing this opportunity, France Telecom has started to let companies replicate their Web content on Minitel. One such firm, Job Finance, a Web recruitment site for the banking and finance industries, joined Minitel in February and is already making money.
FEED Magazine: What Is It Like to Be a Bat Listening to Santana?
Steven Johnson. Music videos have been wrapping themselves around pop songs since the days of "Video Killed the Radio Star," but that wrapping was an extra layer that required sentient humans to individually "interpret" each song. G-Force does its interpretations on the fly.
The Register: Motorola to axe Palm smartphone.
Motorola's axe continues to swing, with its PalmOS-based smartphone the latest casualty. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Motorola executive told The Register that the Palm collaboration was "extremely unlikely" ever to reach market...
InfoWorld: Anti-UCITA sentiment growing.
Legislators in the states of Iowa, New York, North Dakota, and Oregon have introduced anti-Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act bomb shelter legislation, designed to negate the effects of the software licensing law on residents of those states.
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