eBay is branching out to provide auction services to other Web sites. I’m surprised they hadn’t done this already. I haven’t registered for the program, but the brief information on this page seems to indicate that they’re using some sort of XML-RPC protocol. It’s unknown whether this protocol is based on any written standard.
Entries from November 2000
November 20th, 2000 · Comments Off
November 20th, 2000 · Comments Off
Tara “ResearchBuzz” Calishain sent me a link to this article about eroding support for UCITA, the large scale effort by software companies to get laws passed that allow them to stick it to their customers.
November 19th, 2000 · Comments Off
For more scoop on the problems with Netscape 6, check out the reader reports page at Macintouch. Brutal.
November 18th, 2000 · Comments Off
I was so depressed by the general lack of quality of Netscape 6 that I went and downloaded the latest daily build of Mozilla just to make sure that I wasn’t crazy in evangelizing their work for the past few years. Turns out I was right, the latest daily builds of Mozilla are much, [...]
November 17th, 2000 · Comments Off
Jordan K. Hubbard’s review of Mac OS X is the one I’ve been waiting for.
November 17th, 2000 · Comments Off
(Speculation about the outcome of the Presidential election has been removed in light of new developments.)
November 17th, 2000 · Comments Off
Anyone messed around with OpenCOLA? It’s one of those utopian, pie in the sky concepts that venture capitalists dump money into even though chances are it will never really work at all. I’m not being cynical — when these sorts of projects do work out, they change the world. I find them [...]
November 17th, 2000 · Comments Off
Yahoo is considering charging its users for some services (the article doesn’t mention which ones, probably because Yahoo didn’t tell them). This would force me to make a tough decision. I use Yahoo Address Book and Messenger extensively, and Yahoo Calendar to a lesser extent. Would I be willing to pay for them? [...]
November 17th, 2000 · Comments Off
ICANN has agreeed to allow registrations in 7 new top level domains (out of 44 proposed TLDs). In my opinion, the choices are pretty lame. They put off a tough fight over the .web TLD by not accepting anyone’s bid to open it. In a typical big business versus the little guy fight, [...]
November 17th, 2000 · Comments Off
I absolutely love the Daily Howler.