Microsoft Research Netscan - Cross post Networks : Cross post Networks Another cool mapping project. This one maps cross-posts between usenet groups.

And Antarcti.ca as well.

What is WebBrain? Combining a Java GUI with the Dmoz open directory.

BEA updates WebLogic Server for services - ZDNet Aug 4 2001 12:24AM ET [ Internet Europe news]
BANG! BEA build SOAP, WSDL, UDDI support into the latest release. This is significant when so many B2B packages and sites are built on top of BEA.

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Netscape alumni to launch P2P company - ZDNet Aug 2 2001 9:41PM ET [ moreover... P2P] Hmmm. The Kontiki announcement. Peer to peer, swarmed, video distribution and cacheing? Sounds like the Freedom Controller. from Jamby.

The jet powered beer cooler : What follows is my story about a shed, a warm beer and a home made jet engine Well it made me laugh! A Kiwi explains how to cool your beer in the shed, by building an LPG jet engine and using the cooling gas cylinder in a bucket of water to cool beer cans. Even more cool is the jet engine built out of an old car Turbo.

In July my RSS file has been downloaded 15741 times . That's 134Mbyte, 55% percent of my total traffic. This is way to much, if you compare that to the 2617 times my html weblog has been downloaded last month. [w3future.com weblog] There's some concern that publishing RSS files will increase your traffic and this does tend to bear it out. The issue is what you do with it. Aggregators are generally pretty careful to only collect the data at most once per hour (and usually store it locally before serving it up again). What's awkward is that people would like to display a box on their websites of other people's feeds. If this is created on the fly every hit on their website is a hit on the feeds source as well. So the feed gets N hits. We do need some tools to easily do this, but it needs local cacheing to do it properly.

Line56.com | Lead Story : "Siebel was out of our range and it's turning out that Pivotal is kind of out of our range too. We want to do some customization for a Web-based eCRM package. Pivotal can do that but it will still cost about $200,000, not what we had in mind." I'm constantly amazed by the cost figures for B2B software and especially CRM and SCM software. And that's before you factor in the consultancy and implementation costs. And when you get the software you find you can't customize it without spending the same again? Contrast this with open source and GPL, were customization is always possible and the software costs are essentially zero. The problem with this picture is that software companies need to live too.

newsisfree.com : FREE EXPORT DISABLED!!
Really sad to see newsisfree.com (temporarily) stop the free export of RSS. It's been a great source of RSS for 6 months. Let's hope it's back soon.

OXO International : Terms of Use This is one of the best damned "Terms of Use" contracts I've seen. So much so that I'll just say "Me Too" and tell you that it applies to voidstar.com as well. With the notable exception that "All Rights are Reversed" so go ahead and "Steal this website" and all the text on it. But don't blame me if the little people who live behind your skirting boards steal all your socks if you do.

Scripting News : Either the BigCo's don't want SOAP to gain traction, or they have no clue how to develop a community around a new platform. They throw confusing juju all around, they confuse themselves and each other, leaving random developers to say "Let us know when you figure it out."

UDDI has been extraordinarily bad at explaining itself. Not so much in documenting the specs but in explaining why the specs should be used.

http://www.computerworld.com/rckey52/story/0,1199,NAV63_STO62494,00.html

There are some valid points in here about the quality of the information being registered.

But I do find it fascinating that the journalists (and by implication the analysts) focus on the human readable part of the data. For me, it's the web services/SOAP part of the registry that is far more interesting. There are any number of databases of textual information about companies available such as Yahoo, but very, very few databases of either XML data sources or public function/API/SOAP interfaces.

Now given that SOAP implementations are still really at the toolkit stage and there are just not that many live, publicly accessible SOAP based services, it's hardly surprising that UDDI is still in it's infancy. At this stage, the UDDI effort feels like preparation for the time when there are millions of SOAP function points out there and as such represents a remarkable act of faith on the part of the founders that this *will* happen.

SF Chronicle: Mystery links. T - SF Chronicle: Mystery links. TOPtext is an example of "contextual advertising," the latest attempt by online advertisers to reach the eyes and minds of Web surfers. TOPtext turns existing words on a Web page into hyperlinks that redirect a computer user to the advertiser's site.
[Tomalak]
Hot Damn! I thought we'd buried all this Smart Tags nonsense!

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