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New user? Tuesday, March 14, 2000
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Scripting News: "One idea we've been interested in for quite some time is HTML email, so perhaps Firedrop would make a good test case. As you know Manila sends HTML email to subscribers that request it. I know their VCs well, and they know me. From what I've seen it wouldn't take long to build a server app that does what Firedrop does."
Well, I'm not sure exactly what FireDrop does with HTML email from the screenshots, but Conversant's "conversations" (AKA discussion groups) can be configured to act as two-way mailing lists and NNTP newsgroups which can contain HTML.
Here's a great example, on the free-conversant.com support site. A web page, submitted via Netscape Communicator's HTML e-mail client, showing rich text and an aligned image.
True WYSIWYG e-mail to the web. Anyone can use this, even your CEO!
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StarNine: WebStar for MacOS X!
There is a WebObjects adaptor for WebStar which makes it possible to use a WebStar server with WebObjects applications.
Seeing as how StarNine was bought by ACI US yesterday, a company that appears to want to compete with WebObjects with their 4D database product, I'm uncertain whether they'll tout that ability of Web*.
Update: From the 4D and WebStar FAQ:
8. Does this mean WebSTAR Server Suite will no longer support FileMaker Pro?
ACI fully recognizes the importance of third party vendor support for the WebSTAR product range and has no current plans to discontinue WebSTAR's compatibility with any products that it presently supports.
Apache comes pre-configured to run WebObjects apps on Mac OS X Server. I'm not sure if WebObjects will come with Mac OS X, but I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if it did.
Monday, March 13, 2000
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Run, don't walk, and check out Macrobyte Resource's new Internet Groupware system, Conversant!
Create a free Convesant site there, and try it out. It oozes features... Conversant rocks!
Sunday, March 12, 2000
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Michael Simcich invited me to comment about the Natrificial (ryhmes with artificial, neat huh?) patent situation. I've posted my comments as a reply to his article on tecnocrat.net.
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Toronto Maple Leaf Bryan Berard took an errant stick in the eye last Saturday. He'll probably lose his sight in his right eye, which I guess would end his young, bright career. What can I say? I don't know. That sucks.
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While cleaning up my filters today, I found Usersville, which certainly LOOKS great, design and content-wise.
It's a Manila site, hosted by Eric Clerico's weblogger.com service. It looks like his designers worked on this site.
The only strange thing I've seen so far is a pithy quote from eternal blowhard Ronald C.F. Antony at the top and bottom of their template. Ronald is a frequent contributor on the macosx-talk list, who won't be happy until he's CEO of Apple so he can make them update and release Cocoa for Windows and make them repent for all of their sins against ex-NeXT developers.
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The Register: AMD claims Intel giving away chips for X-Box. Isn't that (product dumping) illegal in the USA under anti-trust laws?
