Monthly Archives: July 2001

Need for Speed

Posted on 7/31/2001 by Dylan Tweney

So you’ve just finished the big website redesign. Your designers and engineers have put in hundreds of hours, you’ve quelled three rebellions in the IT department, and you’ve put the site through extensive QA testing. Now you’re ready to switch … Continue reading →

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Integrating online and offline business

Posted on 7/20/2001 by Dylan

Integrating online and offline business Harder than it looks, but you really have no alternative. My latest column for Business 2.0 looks at the lessons to be learned from Webvan’s collapse — and its smarter competitor, U.K.-based Tesco.

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Microsoft suffocating software development?

Posted on 7/20/2001 by Dylan

Microsoft suffocating the software-development ecosystem? Software giant removes Java support from Windows XP. Author and developer Clay Shirky asks PC manufacturers to resist Redmond by installing Java on their PCs anyway. Columnist Dan Gillmor is a supporter.

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FBI busts Russian programmer

Posted on 7/19/2001 by Dylan

FBI busts Russian programmer For cracking Adobe’s weak PDF encryption scheme. Free-speech activists retaliate Boycott Adobe / Free Dmitri campaign, clever logo

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Hope for the future

Posted on 7/17/2001 by Dylan

Hope for the future: A couple of recent news stories point to the incredible resourcefulness — and speedy learning — of young people encountering the Internet for the first time. The Financial Times reported late last week on Indian street … Continue reading →

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eCompany Now is now Business 2.0

Posted on 7/13/2001 by Dylan

eCompany Now is now Business 2.0, and they’ve debuted a new site design under the new URL. My work as the “Defogger” continues under the magazine’s new name, with a weekly Web column and a monthly print column. This week’s … Continue reading →

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Good news for California citizens

Posted on 7/13/2001 by Dylan

Good news for California citizens: Now you can be notified by pager when your neighborhood is scheduled for a rolling blackout. “Oh goody,” millions of power-hungry Californians are no doubt thinking. “Now I can plan ahead for those enforced hours … Continue reading →

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Slim down that homepage

Posted on 7/12/2001 by Dylan Tweney

Do you know how much your website’s home page weighs? The question may sound ridiculous: How can something composed of evanescent electrons and photons “weigh” anything? But in the parlance of Web design, “weight” is shorthand for how big a … Continue reading →

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P2P prosecution

Posted on 7/12/2001 by Dylan

A Georgia State IT administrator is being prosecuted for installing P2P software on college computers. The university says that in so doing, he robbed them of more than $400,000 worth of bandwidth. This, even though the software primarily ran during … Continue reading →

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Webvan going under

Posted on 7/9/2001 by Dylan

I have to admit I didn’t call this one: Webvan is going out of business, making official what observers have been speculating for months. In the two years since it got started, Webvan burned through about a billion dollars of … Continue reading →

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