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Monday, August 04, 2003 |
 News.com. Comscore, a Reston, VA company focused on the tracking of Web users is now profitable due to a whopping $18 m contract from an unknown customer. Care to guess who that customer is? Is this TIA after Poindexter?
6:42:52 PM 
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Greg's Previews: This director got his first job directing a movie (with a $70 m budget!, called "The World of Tomorrow") by providing a demo of software he wrote to a producer.
The LA Times has revealed that Kerry Cornan (the director) is a CalArts graduate, and his software is a CGI program that allows him to shoot his entire movie against blue screens, and fill in the backgrounds later with images he's been working on for years, which are mostly already done. What this allows Conran to do, which is what is so revolutionary, is to have an already existing 3-D storyboard of every scene, with stick figures in place where the actors are supposed to be. Now, all he has to do is stick in his cast, and he's basically done, it sounds like.
6:38:04 PM
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Microdoc News: Negative analysis of Google's attempts at localization and AOL's weblog product (lighter analysis on the second topic).
12:57:33 PM
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Karlin notes the downside of moving domains in the weblog world. Sorry, should have noted this in my weblog. You do lose the contextual rankings you get from places like Technorati (I went from the #30 weblog in the top #100 to off the list), blogroll links, and RSS subscriptions (the latter two problems can be partially fixed via a redirect). This type of contextual loss will only increase as time goes on, so it is better to bite the bullet and get your own domain now rather than later.
11:43:18 AM
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Medlogs: A weblog aggregator for medical weblogs. Medserve, another aggregator, has medical RSS and scroll boxes available.
11:19:23 AM
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Posted some new items on the Weblog Network author's site.
10:11:43 AM
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DARPA (IPTO -- Information Processing Technology Office). Request for proposals: LifeLog. An automated weblog that captures media, transactional, and medical information.
The Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting proposals to develop an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person’s experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities. The objective of this "LifeLog" concept is to be able to trace the "threads" of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships.
10:10:23 AM
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WSJ. Two new companies, ZeroDegrees and Visible Path have software that mines employee contact lists (in corporate e-mail systems) for sales prospects. Where is the quid pro quo?
9:56:58 AM
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