Friday, February 01, 2002

New Microsoft Windows Highlighter 1.0 Available on Windows Update [ActiveWin] 5:37:29 PM

He Writes the Songs: Mac Songs. The Beatles sang about love, the Beach Boys crooned over the joys of surfing. Teacher John Swerdan has just cut an album about Macintosh computers. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 5:37:24 PM

Yeah whatever.... The Anti-Bloggies are here! The Anti-Bloggies are here! Dawn explains it best...... [Ain't Too Proud to Blog] 5:37:20 PM

Super Bowl ads return to offline giants. Football fans will see few ads for online companies during Sunday's Super Bowl, as traditional advertisers will reclaim commercial spots. [CNET News.com] 5:37:15 PM

14367 » February 1 9:06 AM. Newspapers lose the web war. While newspapers recognized the risk the web posed to their core business, they often erred by forcing their new online ventures into the mold set by their pre-existing business model. A look at what made newspapers succeed or fail online from a Harvard Business School professor. (Warning: business-speak; via CNet.) Has your local newspaper done a good job on the web? [MetaFilter] 5:37:11 PM

Online Mugging a Threat, But No Showstopper. In addition to terrorist and virus threats, personal identity theft is a burgeoning menace for online consumers and merchants alike. But according to analysts, vigilant consumers can avoid online attacks and should not fear e-commerce. [osOpinion] 5:37:07 PM

News.Com: Plotting the revival of Ricochet. Our approach is, "Let's build a public-private partnership." We have to rent space on top of light poles to put our antennas on. Most of those poles are either owned by cities or utilities. So we have to lease the space from them. We're trying to get a better lease rate (than what Metricom was paying). [Tomalak's Realm] 5:37:03 PM

News briefs: January 31. Spacecraft controllers will initiate a series of maneuvers February 5 designed to put ESA's... [spacetoday.net] 5:36:59 PM

A windows to linux migration [Geeknews] 5:36:55 PM

eConventional Wisdom. David Walker writes on the Attack of the killer conventions and makes valid points for “Web conventions”. [Link eleganthack] First thing: Know your audience. Places like Born Magazine and Josh... [meryl's notes] 5:36:50 PM

Mandrake: 'gzip' vulnerability. Mandrake: "There are two problems with the gzip archiving program; the first is a crash when an input file name is over 1020 characters, and the second is a buffer overflow that could be exploited if gzip is run on a server such as an FTP server. The patch applied is from the gzip developers and the problems have been fixed in the latest beta." [NewsForge: Open Source News] 5:36:46 PM

OLYMPICS - Site relaunch. At 12 p.m. PST today, the International Olympic Committee will relaunch its web site. [Lockergnome Bytes] 5:36:39 PM

Project Dogwaffle 1.09 Beta 1 Released [BetaNews.Com] 5:36:33 PM