The End of Homemade Websites

Useit.Com: The End of Homemade Websites. Even though the Yahoo Store doesn't have perfect usability for end users, it is reasonably good. Most small websites are probably better off with Yahoo's default set-up than anything they could design themselves. And, most important, the usability for website owners is fine. [Tomalak's Realm]

When Land Lines Will Be a Memory

When Land Lines Will Be a Memory. Americans are snapping up cell phones in record numbers. But are they making their wireless phones their only phones? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]

Looking for the pot of gold

The Economist: Looking for the pot of gold. It should come as no surprise if the killer app for the mobile Internet, at least for consumers, turns out to be person-to-person communication. That, after all, has been the golden prize of all previous technologies, from telegraph to telephone to mobile phone. [Tomalak's Realm]

US Lawmakers Plan Privacy Measure Early Next Year

Reuters via ISPWorld – US Lawmakers Plan Privacy Measure Early Next Year. The measure is designed to set a basic standard of protection for the personal information of visitors to commercial Web sites, and to reduce fears among businesses that they could face a patchwork of conflicting state laws. “We plan to come up with… Continue reading US Lawmakers Plan Privacy Measure Early Next Year

Wired News

Conflict News from Wired News – House Endorses Snoop Bill. Just hours after the Senate approved its version of the anti-terrorism bill, House legislators followed suit by voting 339-79 to ease limits on wiretapping and Internet monitoring. The big difference: The House attached an expiration date to the “USA Act”. The wiretap sections expire in… Continue reading Wired News

Dave Winer

Dave Winer: Yesterday I asked what news is being masked by the latest outrage. Here's one thing. The Congress is legislating big stuff, out of view of the public. Not a single report about this on the TV networks. [Scripting News]

Text::Outline

Simon Kittle's Text::Outline Perl module renders OPML outlines, supporting nearly all the same rules that Radio and Manila support. [Frontier News]