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AJAX = abrasive cleaner. Good name for this technology, alright!

Eric
Making Google richer (summary of U. Vazirani's talk at UW)

You will find variants of Office on almost every Windows PC used in the business and academic worlds, so it's pretty important.

For me, one of the best features of OpenOffice is its ability to export documents as PDFs. Lovely, lovely feature for creating interoperable documents. Yeah, yeah, I know not everyone likes PDFs, but there are PDF readers for most platforms...

Eric
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Heh... don't forget that the definition of an antique car is any car over 25 years old. And surely you remember if Microsoft built cars. Ergo 25-year old code is definitely antique. Or something like that.

Eric
My own blog^H^H^H^Hramblings

This is just an evolutionary step. The application server was already free for production use (deployment, not just development). But yes, it would be a response to JBoss and others. Java app servers are pretty much a commodity at this stage, pushing vendors to release them for free and then sell expanded versions with additional bells and whistles.

Eric
A blog about book publishing, making money, Google, etc.

No, it's not a simplified DIY copyright kit. Creative Commons is about simplified licensing of copyrighted works. One of the hardest things about getting permission to use someone else's copyrighted work (and Dvorak's arguments about fair use should be read in light of Ivan Hoffman's fair use article and the realization that "fair use" varies greatly from legal jurisdiction to legal jurisdiction) is actually tracking down the owner of the approriate rights in order to ask them for permission.

Don't believe me? Check out the copyright clearance section of Project Gutenberg. Who has control over which rights is not always clear, nor is it clear how to contact them. A Creative Commons or similar license removes the need (under appropriate conditions) for explicitly obtaining permission from the rights holder.

Now, it's true that the early CC site wasn't very clear as to the purpose and use of the CC licenses. But not anymore.

Eric
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so what purpose does the article serve, other than the rather mediocre instructional value?

It's a safety valve to ensure that the Slashdot signal-to-noise ratio remains constant.

Eric
Find out why I'm mad about click fraud

So, that is why you opted for the short non .com domain eh?

That was a bit of a struggle, actually. I couldn't find a good, short .com domain so I compromised on the title of the book. But then I had the problem that the URLs printed in the book would look horrible, so I also went and registered a short .com domain consisting of the first letters in each title word to get memwg.com as a shorthand for MakeEasyMoneyWithGoogle.com. The shorthand form makes no sense unless you know the title of the book, but it made for reasonable URLs on the printed page.

I definitely recommend finding a .com domain first before using one of the other domains, though, unless your stuff is country-specific and you'll get a boost from having a country-code TLD. And, practically speaking, the .com domains tend be much cheaper than the country-code ones. If you're registering multiple domains, this can be important. It's just that finding an available domain .com related to your topic can be so incredibly hard.

Eric

I think Nvu is perfect for non-techies who are looking for a free tool to help them build Web pages. The non-techies aren't going to be looking at the generated HTML much initially, so what does it matter if it's not perfect? Most HTML isn't perfect, anyhow, and there is an option in Nvu to turn off the auto-formatting.

What I really like about Nvu is the built-in CSS integration, so that you can put most of the presentation details in the style sheet and stick to mostly structure in the HTML. I wrote a blog entry about it: Nvu makes creating Web sites easy. The fact that Nvu is cross-platform with binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux is a real bonus, too.

Eric

While lacking the sophistication of today's controllers, the Atari 2600 joystick was still a lot of fun for those of us who were actually around when it first came out. And at least with one button you didn't have to wonder which one to press.

Eric (grumpy old VIC-20 guy)
Author of Make Easy Money with Google, which describes the second easiest
way to make money with Google (the first is apparently to buy GOOG stock and watch it go up!)

Well, I doubt that Google is "worried" about RSS feeds, they're just looking at them as another source of information to search. The GoogleBot kicks the tires of my blog at least once a day, so I can only imagine that it's doing the same for everyone else's. It's just a logical extension of what they already do. Replace "is worried" with "sees an opportunity", in other words.

Eric

It benefits you because:

• Google will hopefully crawl your frequently-changing pages more often
• Conversly, Google won't crawl other pages as often, saving your bandwith
• Google will find pages that it wouldn't normally find just by following links

Also, you wouldn't necessarily have to maintain more than one sitemap. You could use XSLT to create the sitemap.html file for your site from the XML file you create for Google. In fact, wouldn't it be nice for Web authoring tools to do this automatically for you?

Eric
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