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Wednesday, January 30, 2002 |
 Business 2.0 Why does Netscape still exist?
>>>Netscape's browser used to be light and zippy, but now it's heavy and sluggish. The current version on my computer, Netscape 6.2e (an enterprise version not markedly different than the consumer one), takes up five times as much memory as Internet Explorer does. Hell, it even takes up more memory than my operating system. Needless to say, it also crashes frequently. Netscape is so bad that I would no longer use it, except that as an AOL employee, I'm forced to. Time Inc. (the AOL subsidiary I work for) recently switched its corporate e-mail to Netscape Mail, which can be used only with the Netscape browser.
(Incidentally, don't even get me started on the wonders of Netscape Mail. Suffice it to say that its primitive features and extremely buggy nature make it seem like a throwback to e-mail systems circa 1995.) <<<
Wow! Why doesn't AOL try new technology! I have some in mind. That would actually put them ahead of the curve.
6:58:09 PM 
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I now understand Dane's traffic secret: he is one of the owners of the Googlewhack term on Google.
10:26:25 AM
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Here is a new Radio Weblog dedicated to Transhumanism. Hmmm.
8:47:31 AM
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K-Logs in action. Looks like Paolo is building feed directories and key word aggregators for his employees at eVectors who are using Radio. Nice. Notice the use of category-based publishing with Radio that enables users to create project or customer specific knowledge streams. Also note the "lighter side feed" for employees to have a little fun. As a new employee it would take all of a couple of hours to find, read, and subscribe to the category specific K-Logs that related to the projects I would be working on. No time spent casting about looking for information, points of view, documents, e-mails, etc on those projects. Wow! Real ROI out of the box. I should probably do some calculations on this.
7:27:20 AM
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Boy, this myPictures tool is great. It took me all of 25 seconds to customize and post that basketball below. I just save the picture to the Radio Upstream folder in the Windows My Pictures folder and whamo! Within five seconds my desktop home page opened with the picture in it. I clicked on source view, changed the params on the image to shrink it (I know this isn't the best way to do this, but the byte savings would be minimal if I did actually resize it using a image tool -- at least for this picture). Went back to WYSIWYG to view the result and clicked publish.
7:08:33 AM
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Goooood morning all! Boy yesterday's weather was great ~65 degrees. T-shirt weather for New Englanders! Even was able to take a break, dig out the basketball and put my extremely tall son through some lay-up drills. He is getting good. This is going to be his sport. We figure he is going to reach 6' 5" when hits full size, which should be tall enough for college ball.
It's kind of funny how kids, when they start playing basketball always want to take the money shot. They never want to do lay-ups or use the backboard.
6:58:21 AM
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