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Book Reviews

Thursday, January 9, 2003

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Apple Life suite of applications: "I like Apple's new concept of iLife (music, photos, movies, and DVDs in one integrated digital life suite of applications). The parallel to the Microsoft Office productivity suite is intriguing. The new browser, Safari, and presentation tool, Keynote, are interesting ways to diverge from Microsoft (remember how Steve used to exclaim "Internet Explorer is the browser of choice"...). Safari has very interesting interface improvements in the areas of navigation and bookmark management; looks like a new arms race is on between browsers (I can't live without Mozilla's tabbed browsing and multi-tab bookmarks!). Safari's bug report button is a fine beta-testing touch, something I've normally included in Web-based applications for users to easily submit bug reports during testing. Expect this to become a common feature, beyond beta versions. Keynote uses an XML-based open file format, which will promote the development of related tools and the automated creation of presentations. Subtle, smart moves." [Jinn of Quality and Risk]

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Another Apple switcher: "Hi, I'm John Robb, and I'm the CEO of a software company that makes Windows software." [The Scobleizer Weblog]

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Cory's novel (creatively licensed) is out: "Cory Doctorow's brilliant novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, is out today. Buy it early and often. Cory's book is also the very first to be offered initially both for sale and under a CreativeCommons license. That means you can also download it for free." [Lessig Blog]

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2003: The year of anti-spam? "2003 is shaping up to be the year of anti-spam initiatives. When thinking about these issues, I keep coming back to Larry Lessig's four regulatory constraints: architecture, law, social norms, and the market..." [Jon's Radio]