Olivier Travers

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (thru thescoop dot org) A 1998 paper by the guys from Google, back when they were at Stanford.

Blog You! Blog You! Blog You! — the two most hated men in the blogging community Rating weblogs looks like shooting at a moving target, since many (including this one, getting more terse as time goes by) keep changing, popping up or phasing out.

O’Reilly Network: O’Reilly P2P Conference Coverage Lots of reading there. I really like conferences open to non-attendants through the web.

Dan Gillmor: P2P’s Promise, and Peril "I didn’t know this before today, but it turns out that a Web browser can hold open the connection to the server. Normally, a browser sends a request for information, which is delivered by the server. The connection ends. KnowNow holds the connection open. Then it adds some JavaScript [...]

Context Magazine: Looming Larger, a Steve Ballmer interview "The computing model underlying the use of the Web was really based on a 1970s model. All the processing occurred on a server, and users got just a snapshot of information via their browsers. All the great power and processing of the personal computer wasn

Appeals court vacates ruling on Amazon patent case "A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a preliminary injunction barring bookseller Barnes and Noble’s Internet store from using a technology that Amazon.com says violates its patent."