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Here’s the new

July 10, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Automatic Media site, complete with press release issued today. There’s also a FAQ, in which it is stated, “Users will find that many of the features they’re accustomed to finding at traditional portals — free email, home page creation, threaded discussion, news filtering, personal ads, etc. — will be integrated into Automatic Media sites in a more intuitive, adaptive way than they’ve encountered elsewhere.” I think they can do it – I hope so, at least.

Tags: Email, Media, Personal

I’m glad to see

July 10, 2000 by Michael Boyle

that the Suck-Feed merger or whatever you’d call it is actually happening. An announcement was made some time ago, but it seemed very speculative at the time. [original pointer via Scripting News]

Tags: Scripting News

Hmmm. This is

July 10, 2000 by Michael Boyle

an interesting name for a new site: Hotwire. Nothing beats originality, that’s for sure! Evidently they passed “Overblown Marketing Writing 101” as well: “Hotwire also has the backing of a prominent $8 billion investment firm to quickly aggregate strategic partners in multiple categories.” Gotta love aggregating those strategic partners! Fun for the whole family. A little further down the main page indicates that this crap is put together by Scient, a buncha airlines and some VC I’ve never heard of before.

Tags: IRL, Marketing

A followup to the

July 10, 2000 by Michael Boyle

observation over the weekend about Ottawa: I think it might just be me. I think I’m suspicious of overly clean, tidy, and orderly cities. And over-gentrification. To me, a city’s supposed to be a jumble. Ottawa doesn’t feel like a jumble anymore – it feels regulated within an inch of its life.

Tags: Ottawa

Monday morning starts

July 10, 2000 by Michael Boyle

with a mini-rant. It’s past time that everyone who uses a browser-detect script to ensure that the right people get the right code figure out that they have to treat IE5/Mac separately. No, my browser doesn’t support VBScript, and all the sites that keep trying to throw it at me cause they just see IE are driving me pretty nuts.

Tags: Arts, Browser

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