Not long ago, RSS (Rich Site Summary) aggregators were large centralized services: My Netscape, My UserLand, Meerkat. Today, RSS news plays a diminished role at My Netscape. The My UserLand service is decommissioned. Meerkat remains a popular feature of the O'Reilly Network, enabling techies to read and search the standard sources on topics like Linux, XML, and security. But there have been just seven new channels added to Meerkat so far this year. Clearly, it's not keeping up with the explosion of activity in blogspace.
E-Mail Notification Management
Jon Udell
A reluctant trial of Microsoft Outlook proves more congenial than expected.
What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed) Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
