ICQ logs spark corporate nightmare «Thousands of confidential messages between the CEO of an Internet company and top executives have been posted on the Web, stirring up a hornet’s nest of corporate intrigue and providing a rare glimpse into a dot-com as it struggled to cope with a brutal shakeout.» Die gehackten ICQ Logfiles von Sam Jain, CEO von eFront findet man hier: » Fuckedcompany.com » Echo Station: Happily Mirroring the eFront Files 🙂 » […]
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The Unfinished Revolution Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do for Us, Michael L. Dertouzos
MIT’s Michael Dertouzos has a radical vision of the future of computing «When the computer finally vanishes under the human services that it provides,“ said Dertouzos, „then the revolution will be finished.»
Computers aren’t serving people — it’s the other way around. Michael Dertouzos, director of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, has a plan: One day, he says, computing will be as essential and invisible as oxygen.
The Dreams of Webzines Fizzle Out Driving their new vision of entrepreneurialism is the rising morbidity among Internet content sites. Dozens of publications, including Word, have published their last issues. Other Webzines, including Salon.com, have retrenched after losing millions of dollars and having their stocks harshly punished.
«Ich habe mein gesamtes Berufsleben damit verbracht, den Gebrauch von Computern einfacher zu machen. In den vergangenen fünf Jahren hat es sich zum Schlechteren entwickelt.» Nicholas Negroponte, Director des Media Lab am Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Courier-Journal.com: Let there be Blogs! «Part diary, part media digest, part scrapbook, blogs are one more way the digital revolution has enabled communication in ways few people could have predicted.»
Evan Williams, Gründer von Blogger.com äussert sich in einem Interview über die Amazingly True Story of Blogger und deren Zukunft… «Ev: Okay, well, things could change because nothing is official yet, but (knock on wood), by the end of this week, I should be able to announce a deal or two I’ve been working on that will provide enough income to keep the service up for quite some timeeven without charging for itand that will […]