Posted on May 11, 2005 7:33 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
The multimedia advances on the Web are great. I’m a daily devotee of Rocketboom. I download jam band concerts (legally) using BitTorrent. The way I feel about podcasting should be pretty obvious. But not every multimedia development is a good idea.
I tried a NewsBot today. The creation of UK-based Advanced Chatbot Solutions (ACS), NewsBots are virtual newscasters, animated avitars that read a…
Posted on May 9, 2005 9:54 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
If you or your company have a Web site, you need to read this thread on the Google Web Accelerator and the havoc it can cause to you and anyone using your site, particularly if your site incorporates any Web applications. Here’s the heart of the matter:
The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link. This gives the…
Posted on May 9, 2005 9:44 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Being a proud and dedicated early adopter, I read a couple books on my Palm when Palm-enabled books first became available. I didn’t like it. The constant scrolling was particularly troublesome; it was sometimes downright nauseating. (I guess that could have been the book making me queasy, but I don’t think so.) The text was tiny; if I enlarged it, I had to…
Posted on April 19, 2005 9:40 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
FeedPlex is back online. This is a search engine that searches only XML files—such as RSS and RDF feeds—but not very well. I entered my own first name (yep, a vanity search) to see what would come up. The headline listed this blog, “a shel of my former self.” The link, however, went to a completely different blog I’ve never read or heard of. Search Engine…
Posted on April 15, 2005 9:31 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
InfoWorld debuts a new look to its Web site today, but the exciting part of the redesign is under the hood. According to Matt McAlister, director of online product development for the magazine,
“What I like most in this new architecture is that the related links are now driven by del.icio.us. Our edit team is tagging content in del.icio.us. The engineers are pulling down…
Posted on April 15, 2005 9:15 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
There don’t seem to be too many people who are in the middle on the issue of Google’s Autolinks feature. Some think it’s great. Others (myself included) don’t like the idea of Google adding links to my page—for the sake of making money—that I didn’t intend to link to.
InfoWorld’s Jon Udell is out with another one of his terrific screencasts, this one a four-minute look at Autolinks and the…
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