Month: August 2001

Newspaper Duo Duels Monster. Publishers Knight-Ridder and Tribune strengthen their online presence in the job recruitment market, and hope the online-offline combination can challenge Monster.com. [The Motley Fool]

HP To Ship Combo DVD+RW/CD-RW Drives. New PC-drives should retail for $599 and are expected to be on U.S. store shelves in September. [internetnews.com: Product News]

PC World: Do Search Engines Tell the Truth? Some online search engines are yielding results that are less than you expect. The most prominent findings may surface not because they're the best fit, but because the subjects wrote the biggest checks to the search engine providers, industry participants acknowledge. [Tomalak's Realm]

Gov's Laptop Plan Approved. Every seventh-grader in Maine will have a laptop, starting in the fall of 2002. Governor Angus King talks to Katie Dean about his plans to get technology in the hands of all children in an audio interview. [Wired News]

XP Invasion Is Imminent. Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, works well enough that there's no reason to think it won't dominate the world. The biggest problem may be enduring the onslaught of built-in pitches to buy more MS software. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News]

I, Cringely: Roll Your Own [DSL]. “Of course the local telephone companies hate this whole idea because they want to sell you that T-1 line for $500-600 per month [instead of $30]. That's why they will tell you dry pairs don't exist when they usually do exist. And that's why phone companies are trying to… Continue reading I, Cringely: Roll Your Own [DSL]

Reuters: “A federal appeals court sent Microsoft Corp.'s antitrust case on Friday back to a lower court to determine what remedies should be imposed on the software giant.” [Scripting News]

A new rendition of the block diagram I drew for the Jabber folk that got the ball rolling earlier this week. There's a new twist, I included an IM server as a Blogger-compatible server. I'd like to be able to configure Radio to mirror the flow of my weblog to IM users. This is still… Continue reading A new rendition

JabNews: “I just successfully posted a message to a Manila-based test site with my Jabber client — the Jabber Blogging Agent is slowly getting better. I'm planning to get a version into production on jabber.org by the end of next week.” Now, let me explain what's going on there. Dave Smith, who posted that message,… Continue reading JabNews

Step-By-Step Site Planner. WebmasterBase Aug 23 2001 9:49PM ET [Web developer news]