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Women, Men and the Internet

The Internet is a very unique informational format. Used for obtaining information on almost any and all subjects, small business, big business and anything in between. It is a given that learning how to do business on the Internet is tricky and exciting all at the same time. But women and men utilize it differently and as you would expect fulfilling their desires.

Building a Customizable Server-Side Cached Scrolling XML Newsfeed Display

At EggheadCafe.com, we have resources that are added on a daily basis – both by member visitors and by the staff. These resources are searchable and are broken down by categories such as Hotlinks, Articles, Tips & Tricks, etc. Each evening , we have a script that’s kicked off by the NT Scheduler service at a time when traffic is normally low, that scours our resource database for the most recent items in each category.

How Streaming Media is Similar to Both a Phone and a TV

Do you own one of those cool video phones that let people see each other while they talk? You know, those gadgets that we have been talking about for over 25 years? No, neither do I.

Where are these devices? One could say that our current telephone lines don’t have the bandwidth to support both audio and video, while others may state that people just do not want to see the other person (or more likely, be seen).

The Medium and the Message

A debate is raging in e-publishing circles: should content be encrypted and protected (the Barnes and Noble or Digital goods model) – or should it be distributed freely and thus serve as a form of viral marketing (Seth Godin’s “ideavirus”)? Publishers fear that freely distributed and cost-free “cracked” e-books will cannibalize print books to oblivion.

Bright Planet, Deep Web

www.allwatchers.com and www.allreaders.com are web sites in the sense that a file is downloaded to the user’s browser when he or she surfs to these addresses. But that’s where the similarity ends. These web pages are front-ends, gates to underlying databases. The databases contain records regarding the plots, themes, characters and other features of, respectively, movies and books.

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