Thursday, June 24, 1999

News.Com: XML and HTTP. "It's like inventing a language without verbs. There has to be a standard way to deliver structured data. And if not CORBA, EJB, or even COM, then what?" Easy.

New Stories on My.UserLand.Com continues to impress!

Wired News appears to own the 4AM slot.

William Crim on the Salon IPO: "If Furbies cost $300 no one would buy them. But if they cost $30 and every kid in America wants a Furby from a dwindling supply and people will pay $300 for one."

What is MoreOver.Com?

WebMonkey: CGI Scripting for Fun and Profit.

Charlie Jackson: "Do you think Network Solutions should continue to have a government-granted monopoly when it can't keep up with the workload?"

News.Com: Web storage sites next big thing?

Wired: Torvalds lays an egg. (It's funny, as an aside, I would have said the same thing about Wired's party last night. Their speaker, Po Bronson, took cellphone calls during his speech! It was staged, but it wasn't funny.)

The official Buck's report on last night's party. "I felt like I was living in NYC once again."