Whip, Beat, and Stomp Your Data Into Submission
We all know that the information is out there, but who knows how to find it? Consider, for example, Ames Department Stores, headquartered in Rocky Hill, Conn., a discount retail chain with 452 outlets: Until recently sales managers there had to spend as much as a day combing through numerous databas
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Q&A: Amory B. Lovins
Q&A: Amory B. Lovins Energy Expert Talks About California’s CrisisD.F. Tweney, Special to SF GateThursday, April 26, 2001 Noted energy expert and former experimental physicist Amory B. Lovins founded theRocky Mountain Institute, an influential energy think tank based in Snowmass,Colo., in 1982. Whil
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Want Quicker Downloads? Pony Up Some Cache
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Computing’s Unfinished Revolution
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The real Slim Shady
Copyright law is fast becoming irrelevant, thanks to the Internet. It's time to start figuring out how to replace it with something that works.
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Personalization Without Popularity
Most of the words in the English language are greatly underutilized. Words like fracas and sanguine and superlative don’t pop up nearly as often as simpler words like book or car or the. This simple observation has a name: It’s called Zipf’s Law, named for an obscure linguistics professor, George Ki
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More Features for the InfoSelect Faithful
Info Select version 6 Bottom Line: Flexible, powerful information organizer with a quirky interface. Price: $149.95; $99.95 upgrade from earlier versions Micro Logic Corp. 201-342-6518 Micro Logic Corp.Info Select 6 PageWinList: PIM/Contact ManagerFebruary 28, 2001More Features for the Info Select F
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Caution: Broadband content
(Publish) — For Web designers, so-called “rich media” has long been an irresistible temptation. Plain text and HTML seems so bland to the black-clad art-school crowd-wouldn’t it be better to juice up the home page with a few animated GIF files and maybe an interactive game built in Macromedia Flash?
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Seven Takes Aim at Wireless Snafus
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Beware of content staff bloat
It’s been a tough year for many high-profile startups-but one with valuable lessons about how to produce and use online content. Among the recent spate of dotcom layoffs and company failures, big content-focused sites have taken some of the worst beatings. Webcaster Pseudo Networks shut down in Sept
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