Archive for June 2001
Visa sets technical specifications for online authentication
Computerworld: Visa sets technical specifications for online authentication. Visa International Inc. this week announced the worldwide rollout of technical specifications designed to support payment authentication services for online credit card transactions while leaving retailers free to use their own mechanisms for processing payments. [Tomalak’s Realm]
Content Management for the Masses
Online Journalism Review: Content Management for the Masses. Some recent announcements by CMS providers signal particularly good things for the small publisher or lone journalist looking to enhance (or establish) their Web presence. If the current trend continues, low budget news sites soon could enjoy systems that rival the best money can buy today. [Tomalak’s Realm]
Microsoft doesn’t care much about shared source or Smart Tags and we are wasting our time following their marketing trail
John Rhodes: “Microsoft doesn’t care much about shared source or Smart Tags and we are wasting our time following their marketing trail.”
Although Dave
Winer seems to think that Microsoft "dropped
a bombshell" with their .Net
shared source announcement, I am not taking my eye off the ball. While
we bow to Scoble because he
figured everything
out, I am not going to take my eye off the ball. While people flock to
Slashdot to read
the story and comment on it, I am not going to take my eye off the ball.
While people continue to point to the original story on O’Reilly and shake
their stunned
heads, I am not going to take my eyes off the ball.Listen to me very
closely. Shared source is trivial. Smart tags are trivial. No big deal. What
does Microsoft want? Here is the mind bomb: Microsoft’s business
model no longer revolves around software. Instead, it revolves around
services, transactions, and extracting value from activity on the
internet.
Classic LDAP
Classic LDAP (April 1996): Doc Searls:
A Bulldozer Through the Intersection:
Craig Burton on Netscape’s Directory Strategy
The Man Behind the Bulldozer:
An Interview with Netscape’s Eric Hahn
how to disable smart tags in Apache
Mike Duffy explains how to disable smart tags in Apache. [Scripting News]
Microsoft to me: We’re turning off your Office
ZDNet: by David Coursey, Executive Editor,Microsoft to me: We’re turning off your Office.
A funny thing happened on the way to PC Expo: Microsoft killed my copy of Office. Or at least that’s what the error message said, threatening me with something called “Reduced Functionality Mode” if I didn’t immediately insert my original Office disc and have my software reactivated.
“If you don’t perform the reactivation steps, Microsoft Office will go into Reduced Functionality Mode. In that mode you will not be able to save modifications to documents, or create a new document, and additional functionality may be reduced” said the “help” screen attached to the error message. (The error itself could not be copied and pasted so I didn’t save the exact language; I must say I was a little stunned).
