Tuesday, August 19, 2003

FoxForum Wiki RSS 1.0 feed beta one release The FoxForum Wiki RSS 1.0 feed is ready for beta testing. Let me know if you see any weirdnesses. It's the last set of links on http://www.tedroche.com/RSSFeeds.html. It validates. It looks okay. We'll rattle it around and see how it works. 10:05:10 PM    comment []

Is it Big Brother watching? Microsoft tries to reason out newsgroups... News.Com: Microsoft's in-house sociologist. Q&A with Marc Smith. Microsoft has a big investment in online communities, and has not had until recently many tools to enhance that investment. What Microsoft wants around communities is what every enterprise does, which is a peer-support, knowledge-management application. [Tomalak's Realm] 7:29:02 PM    comment []

Borland to compete with IBM for federal bids The headline doesn't seem justified by the body text. A software supplier to the federal government will use Borland's tools rather than IBM's in bids on federal contracts. Whether it wins any or not is another matter..."Borland edges out IBM for federal bids" [CNET News.com] 7:28:04 PM    comment []

Dan Gillmor: Outsourcing Our Future? Outsourcing Our Future?. "Will America lose 3.3 million high-paid, value-added technology jobs in coming years? That's one estimate that John Chen, CEO of..." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 7:25:09 PM    comment []

If it ain't one thing, it's another... DirectX attack anticipated [Ars Technica] 7:22:21 PM    comment []

1.Never Open Attachments From Untrusted Sources. 2. There Are No Trusted Sources. New strain of Sobig virus circulating. Antivirus companies warned Tuesday that a new version of the Sobig virus is rapidly spreading on the Internet, the latest in a string of Sobig computer worms to be released. [InfoWorld: Top News] 12:34:50 PM    comment []

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