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History repeats itself

February 27, 2003

Back in the early-ish days of the com­mer­cial Inter­net (circa 95), we were talk­ing about the browser wars to describe the fight between then-leader Netscape Nav­i­ga­tor and Microsoft’s upstart Inter­net Explorer. Should we start talk­ing about the search engine wars as Over­ture and Google are about to go head to head in a new set of […]

Suggestions for RSS .92 spec

October 12, 2000

I’d like to sug­gest a few optional addi­tions to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion. Here are some ideas I’d like to throw around for dis­cus­sion: At the item level : This would allow us to spec­ify a par­tic­u­lar date for an item. I think it would be nice for those of us who have sev­eral days’ worth of con­tent in their RDF […]

2000 Tech Politics

July 31, 2000

It’s elec­tion sea­son in the United States. This week, the Repub­li­can party is hold­ing its con­ven­tion, which will be fol­lowed by the democ­rats’ in the next cou­ple of week. But the big ques­tion to those of us who work in the Inter­net field has been, what do those guys stand for in terms of the […]

The Privacy Police Strikes

July 17, 2000

Right now, in the US, two of the most pop­u­lar TV shows are Sur­vivor and Big Brother, Euro­pean imports where peo­ple are will­ingly liv­ing under the watch­ful eyes of TV cam­eras. Think of it as a real-life ver­sion of The Tru­man Show, where TV watch­ers gather to watch some peo­ple like them deal with life. The […]