Eastgate's Tinderbox. Eastgate System's new content authoring system is called Tinderbox. It's not just intended to be just a Weblog tool (shades of Radio), but its testers are using it as such. Since it comes from the hypertext as narrative world, it has a different interface and set of conventions than Radio or Blog [More… Continue reading Eastgate's Tinderbox

Sun Targets Home Networks, Small Businesses With Qube 3. Sun Microsystems Monday unveiled the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance server, a plug-and-play solution targeted at home networks, small businesses, and remote branch offices. [Product News] I'm a bit puzzled by this story as the Qube 3 has been available for quite a while.

The .NET frameworks SDK, command-line compilers and tools are now available for free download. For people who also want a free IDE, SharpDevelop looks pretty good. As far as being able to run .NET code on platforms other than Windows, today the news was that Mono project has ditched GPL and Intel and HP have… Continue reading .NET frameworks SDK, command-line compilers and tools are now available for free download

Wolves at the Door – Interesting, this Defense Intelligence Agency testimony of one year ago has been prophetic. Relevant to the upcoming WEF meeting, “Others, either unable or unwilling to share in the benefits of globalization, will face deepening economic stagnation, political instability, and cultural alienation. These conditions will create fertile ground for political, ethnic,… Continue reading Defense Intelligence Agency testimony of one year ago

My great grandfather was born on this day in 1898.

Commonplace book. Web journals serve the same function as the old commonplace book [Mark Bernstein]

Lighthouse: A redesign recipe for tough times. The recent boom has ensured that most of the Web sites that are needed have already gone up. The end of that boom has deadened any sense of urgency among organisations still planning their first site. And it's a rare Web site built in the past four years… Continue reading A redesign recipe for tough times

New spec aimed at tripling cable capacity Cable modems could have triple the upstream capacity by the end of 2002, enabling videoconferencing and peer-to-peer applications over cable connections. CableLabs, a consortium of cable operators from North America and South America, has completed the specification for DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) 2.0. The specification… Continue reading New spec aimed at tripling cable capacity

TIME.com: Identity Theft: Could it Happen to You? New statistics suggest it may be only a matter of time. A security expert offers tips on protecting yourself  Imagine this: Someone out there knows your name, your credit card information, your bank account numbers and your social security number. They are pretending to be you —… Continue reading Identity Theft: Could it Happen to You?

David P. Reed: Asking fundamental questions. If technology improves, the regulations become unnecessarily strict. When we make better radio systems, the old ones become obsolescent, and wasteful. We could improve the entire system by junking the old stuff, and replacing it all with functionally compatible systems, based on new insights and design. [Tomalak's Realm]