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 Wednesday, December 27, 2000
It's all Netscape's fault. Tactics. In the three quarters prior to its 1995 IPO, Netscape generated just $43 million in revenue. Yet from its IPO to its pre-takeover peak four months later, the stock appreciated from $28 to $98, a 250 percent gain. Netscape turned the technology-investing world on its ear.
5:23:24 PM 
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XML Spy 3.5 beta 3 out. The third beta of the XML Spy 3.5 development environment for XML has been released, adding several new features to the recently-added support for XML Schema.
12:48:37 PM
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Heads-up, I'm working on new features for RSS that build on 0.91. Calling it 0.92. I am not doing this as part of a working group, or in collaboration with anyone else. I'm doing an app that requires more functionality than 0.91 provides. I think the enhancements will be useful for other developers. There's already been enough discussion, and a lot of wasted time. I just want to make software. We did RSS for a reason, and the reason didn't disappear. We need the functionality.
12:00:03 PM
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VorteXML "converts existing, recurring structured text data into valid XML using any DTD on an ad hoc or automated, programming-free basis!"
11:00:20 AM
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Editor & Publisher: Online News Advice For 2001. Steve Outing. While I, too, am tempted to succumb to the desire to make predictions for the digital news industry in 2001, I'm going to take a slightly different approach. Rather than predictions, what follows are my recommendations about what the online news industry should be doing and focusing on next year.
11:00:14 AM
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Evhead: Pricing Matters. I've been thinking a lot about pricing lately, and the statement above is inline with my intuition (and experience) on the ever-tricky issue. It also brought up a lot of thoughts I've been having about pricing and assumptions that are often made about what does and doesn't work on the web...
11:00:14 AM
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Radio: "When accessing a server on the local machine, MSIE/Mac doesn't yield enough processor time to allow the server to do its processing. The net result is a glacial pace, when it should be lightning fast. The addition of a single system call to the loop that's waiting for a response from the server would probably cure the problem."
9:00:13 AM
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Laird Popkin, one of the designers of ICE, agrees that it's time for the search engines to coordinate with content management software.
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