February 14, 2003

Spammers Cannibalistic Pyramid Scheme

Wired News: “The human gene pool should be incapable of producing enough idiots to financially support the vast number of spammers whose scat litters so many inboxes. ”

“…most spammers make money selling e-mail addresses to other spammers, who then sell those same addresses to others. It’s like the legendary snake eating its own tail. “

February 13, 2003

Wireless HiFi over WiFi

According to this article, Linksys will be releasing in 2Q03, a wireless LAN (WiFi) device that attaches to any 802.11b network, and searches the network for MP3 files, or even images, which can then be played or displayed on a home audio or video device (TV).

Apparently it cannot stream video yet, but that is supposedly planned for future releases. (via BoingBoing)

February 12, 2003

Downloading dreams

According to this Cnet article, I may someday soon be able to download my dreams and review them later (TiVo style) <grin /> (via Slashdot)

February 11, 2003

PostNuke Template Rendering Engine

An overview was posted on the PostNuke site about the Smarty-based Template Rendering Engine for PostNuke Phoenix.

I can’t wait to see this in at least a beta. I’d love to rid theme templates of those nasty nested tables and exploit CSS.

February 11, 2003

XML Content Management

Jon Udell has some encouraging words to say in regards to Chad Dickerson’s experience “winning ugly” with XML and content:

“As a longtime content wrangler, I’m guilty of assuming that any structure is mappable to any other structure. And that’s true. But it’s never as trivial as we like to imagine. Transformation is work. We’ll always need to do some of it programmatically.”

Well said.

February 10, 2003

Microsoft’s Xdocs will be called InfoPath

“The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath.”

“InfoPath will use XML to allow office workers to create electronic forms that will automatically share data with other documents and back-end business systems.”

“Microsoft is hoping to corner a share of the XML-based content management software market. Market researcher ZapThink, based in Waltham, Mass., estimates the value of the market for XML-based content management software at more than $11 billion by 2008.”

February 10, 2003