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Tuesday, October 22, 2002

FaxService. Commercial, secure, reliable Fax transmission service - economical, worldwide, and advertising-free. [New at XMethods] Always looking for good Web Service ideas... 11:53:05 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

RSS Explorer is really cool. I have already found several new blogs... 9:42:33 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

F-Script is a lightweight object-oriented scripting layer specifically designed for Mac OS X object system (i.e. Cocoa). This could be interesting... 9:35:04 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

The only interesting new pieces of software I have used since about 1990 are Web Browsers, Radio and Napster. The common thread they all have is exchanging information. I have high hopes for apps based on rendevous as the next set of cool software. 9:12:46 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

PIM cups runneth over Outlook may have killed the commercial marketplace for "Personal Information Management" (PIM) software. So the new Outlook challenger is going to be the product of an open-source project, backed by a foundation...[Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] Scott raises some interesting points about dead markets. In my opinion the software market will remain dead until we figure out that computers are good for something other than running MS Office. The only Office App I use regularly is Outlook (aka the virus portal). What I have never understood is why the vast majority of Windows users need only a Web Browser, email tool, wordpad, and Acrobat but companies shell out Billions to Microsoft so everyone can have Office on their machines. I guess creating a free PIM would allow windows users to have all they need without Office so I guess this is a good start tpwrds the Office Free world. 9:12:23 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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