Month: September 2001

Dave Winer's Scripting News Weblog – NY Times: “Some of the leading state attorneys general in the Microsoft antitrust case said yesterday that they would press for tough sanctions against the software maker, including ones that apply to the company's new operating system, Windows XP.” They're still fumbling the remedy. Talk with a few developers,… Continue reading Dave Winer's Scripting News Weblog

Great Bridge, PostgreSQL vendor, ceases operations. During its 16 months of operations, Great Bridge recorded an impressive list of accomplishments, including assembling the industry's deepest talent pool of PostgreSQL expertise; releasing the first-ever commercially distributed version of PostgreSQL; … and being named to FORTUNE magazine's 25 Coolest Global Companies. The company was not able, however,… Continue reading Great Bridge, PostgreSQL vendor, ceases operations

Business 2.0: How to Beat Corporate Alzheimer's. Today, KM is making a comeback on the strength of better solutions — namely, the humble search engine. In the last few years, search engines, originally developed to comb through the sprawling expanses of the Web, have become remarkably effective at finding bits of data wherever they lie.… Continue reading How to Beat Corporate Alzheimer's

Washington Post: AOL Seeks Big Stake In AT&T Cable Unit. AOL Time Warner Inc. is stepping up efforts to acquire a major stake in AT&T Corp.'s cable system, offering a deal that would give the media company control of the combined operations, according to sources familiar with the proposal. [Tomalak's Realm]

September is Love Manila Month at UserLand. We're following the lead of Susan Kitchens and Bryan Bell, both of whom patiently put together a list of features and fixes they want to see. We're also working on Radio 7.1, which is due out pretty soon (which means we haven't picked a date yet). [Scripting News]

Scripting for IE 5 Macintosh Edition. Danny Goodman: Scripting for IE 5 Macintosh Edition “Windows-centric developers might expect compatibility problems with non-Microsoft browsers, such as Netscape Navigator, Opera, and others. What trips up many developers, however, is that the IE/Windows DOM includes many proprietary features that rely on the internal architecture of IE/Windows and the… Continue reading Scripting for IE 5 Macintosh Edition

ZopeZen Upgrade to CMF Day 2. ZopeZen: Upgrade to CMF Day 2 “anything beginning with an img is served by Apache, not Zope. I then set the document root for my virtual host somewhere nice, “e:/ZopeZen/root” in fact. But thats not all, I still want to be able to manage this in Zope. So I… Continue reading ZopeZen Upgrade to CMF Day 2

John Rhodes: Google 2.0. [Scripting News]

IM Gets Serious. Here's an interesting article from Red Herring about business use of IM, with some quotes from Andre Durand of Jabber, Inc. [JabberCentral]

PFIR announces the Fact Squad. People for Internet Responsiblity, a group founded by veteran USENET moderators Lauren Weinstein and Peter G. Neumann, announces The Fact Squad. Fact Squad is a new resource for information regarding technology and its effects on society, dedicated to cutting thr [More Like This WebLog]