Friday, May 17, 2002

Bertelsmann to buy Napster for a song. Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers and Shawn Fanning, the service's creator, will remain with the company after resigning earlier in the week. Napster's going price: $8 million. [CNET News.com] Wonder why they bought it? Brand, I guess. 1:39:22 PM

MS Office gets a wake-up call. Many users didn't take Sun seriously when it released StarOffice. But with version 6.0, one thing is clear: Microsoft Office finally has a viable competitor. And it starts at just $75.95 per user. [ZDNet Tech News] Sounds intriguing, too bad I can't find a place to download it and check it out. 11:27:15 AM

blogs John Sumser: A dozen things we know about blogs.  [Scripting News] a list of reasons why... Blogging is unstoppable! I agree that there is something to this. it isn't the answer for everything, particularly knowledge management. but it is a start... 10:58:26 AM

So, new resolution. In addition to categorizing everything, I'm going to make a comment on everything -- at least why I think it's interesting. 10:55:25 AM

I tried to check out ZOË yesterday -- mostly I couldn't get it to work.   I configured an IMAP server and nothing happened -- not even a complaint.   However, I looked at the parts of the software I could look at without mail.  Looks like they have some pretty big plans -- currently supports HTTP and SMTP, looks like they plan to support inbound IMAP and HTTPS and a couple other things.   It uses Lucene and some code for the Google API.   Looks like it is built on some app server code from webobjects.com and uses a lot of XML (and HTML and WML) parsing code from Apache.  7:03:39 AM

Astronomers Discover Jupiter Moons. Astronomers at the University of Hawaii have discovered 11 more moons orbiting Jupiter, bringing the number orbiting the solar system's largest planet to 39. [AP Science] 6:30:08 AM