Web Standards Project:

Web Standards Project: “All we've asked Macromedia to do is ship Dreamweaver with the ability to create standards-compliant pages. It can't be that difficult; as you've seen, the technology is already there.”

Mark Pilgrim:

Mark Pilgrim: “Groove is an overkill solution in search of a problem.”

Firewalls

We need a new firewall / NAT / VPN box for the office. If you know about these and could recommend one, please email me. [Update: thanks to everyone who wrote in. I think we're going with the SonicWall XPRS2!]

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Joel on Software

Firewalls We need a new firewall / NAT / VPN box for the office. If you know about these and could recommend one, please email me. [Update: thanks to everyone who wrote in. I think we're going with the SonicWall XPRS2!] [Joel on Software]

Reworking Online Work

MIT Technology Review: Reworking Online Work. Q&A with Ray Ozzie. From a personal perspective, our goal has been to create an environment that securely brings together the right people, the relevant information, the appropriate tools to manipulate that information, at the right time–whether spontaneously or over a long period of time. [Tomalak's Realm]

The World's Information Desk

Web Techniques: The World's Information Desk. Q&A with Craig Silverstein, Google's director of technology. Our goal is to make all the world's information available, not just that information that happens to be in HTML form. Supporting PDF was our first step towards expanding past HTML, and we plan to have others. [Tomalak's Realm]

The eyes have it

BBC News | SCI/TECH | The eyes have it. New research backs up the potential of automatic iris recognition as a security tool to replace keys and personal identification numbers (Pin). [Privacy Digest]

Whatis: The Map To Better Web Searching

Whatis: The Map To Better Web Searching. Gary Mosher proposes a “whatis” database for easier informative queries about domains. Whatis would include available site characteristics like news and discussion, that would make finding the type of site you want easier, and help researchers map the Net. 0810 [WebReference News]

Judges switch off Web surveillance

Judges switch off Web surveillance. From TheStandard.com: “Judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco are protesting the use of software within the federal court system that monitors Internet use on employee computers — including those of its judges.”… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

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Got back late Tuesday from a great trip to Philadelphia. Had never seen the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.