Category: Web

  • Start.com

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft’s Start.com is a very pleasant departure – it has a very simple, clean design and, though still in beta, works well in Firefox (though not in Safari)! That in itself is unusual for a Microsoft application. Start.com is an RSS aggregator (similar to Bloglines) with an AJAX interface so it is fast. Click on…

  • Hotmail's 2mb storage

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have a hotmail account (I feel like someone in group therapy – Tom: “Hi, my name is Tom and …. I have a hotmail account” All: “Hi Tom!”) and my Hotmail account’s storage is still only 2mb. I know, I know, Gmail is 2gb – I have a Gmail account too and I think…

  • Browse, Search, Subscribe – the new Internet paradigm

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    Tom Raftery
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    In case you missed it, Microsoft made three RSS related announcements at Gnomedex last week. They announced that: they are building support for RSS into their next operating system (code named longhorn) scheduled for release at the end of 2006 (I hope that sucking sound wasn’t the sound of you holding your breath!) the next…

  • D-Link DSL 300 is Mac address specific!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I lost Internet connectivity over the weekend at home. My home Internet setup is quite basic – see the following diagram (courtesy of D-Link): I use my laptop almost exclusively and I have it connected to the Internet via wireless network served by my D-Link DI-624 wireless router. On Sunday morning, my laptop didn’t register…

  • The Semantic web and life sciences

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see where Tim Berners-Lee expects the next explosion in use of the Semantic web to be in the field of life sciences. The Semantic Web “will give scientists and other users unexpected help and serendipitous added value from others’ data,” Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), said at the Fourth Annual…