| Revisiting the early net | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:22:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Twelve years ago, some of Internet World's regular contributors got together to look back at 1994 and make predictions for 1995 -- a list that made the digital rounds last week. Predictions are a dangerous business, particularly online, where they wait around to haunt you later. So how did the magazine's class of Net gurus do? Very well -- provided you don't get sidetracked by technological red herrings. The contributors' prognostications are thick with references to protocols and file systems that now seem hopelessly arcane to mainstream users -- FTP and Gopher, for instance. And many of their worries focus on newsgroups, now a Web backwater. (Albeit one that's still going strong.) But look deeper, and you'll see how many predictions are dead-on, though some came to pass in slightly different forms, or with a twist.... | |
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| | | The Simpsons Movie Trailer Airs During November Sweeps & Online | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:21:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | In case you missed the world premiere trailer of THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, during an all-new episode of THE SIMPSONS that aired Nov. 12, 2006, from 8:00-8:30 pm, then you may catch it online at www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/trailer. THE SIMPSONS MOVIE -- in glorious 2-D -- will premiere in theaters worldwide July 27, 2007. Commented current SIMPSONS showrunner Al Jean: We couldnt be more excited. By an amazing coincidence, this exclusive trailer just happens to air during November sweeps. The trailer starts with CG 3D adorable, fluffy, white bunny in a lush woodland scene with complex camera moves though flowers and fauna with a startling/humorous switch to what movie fans can really expect from the film. Producing the feature are THE SIMPSONS series exec producer James L. Brooks, creator Matt Groening, Jean, Mike Scully and Richard Sakai.... | |
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| | | Warhol's Jackies, Maos Star in $500 Million New York Sales | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:20:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Andy Warhol's Jackies, Maos, Marilyns and flowers may be the stars of the New York contemporary-art auctions that start tomorrow and could total $500 million. Collectors said the pop artist's icons have become a refuge from uncertainty as prices rise. ``Warhol is like Microsoft,'' said New York private dealer Alberto Mugrabi, who aims to augment his Warhol holdings this week. ``He is an artist who has overachieved, and he is not going to go away if the market goes up and down.'' Mugrabi's fellow collectors include the billionaires Eli Broad and Laurence Graff. About $80 million of Warhols are on the block at Sotheby's, Christie's International and Phillips de Pury & Co. That's more than all the artist's painted pictures traded in 2006's first six months, said the auction tracker Artnet AG.... | |
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| | | Gardening Get festive with amaryllis | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:23:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Now is the time to pot up amaryllis bulbs so you have a succession of flowers beginning the next few weeks - just in time for your holiday decorating. To get a steady stream of flowers until spring, stagger the times you plant bulbs in decorative containers that will brighten your indoor decor. "It may be surprising to learn that amaryllis varieties don't all come to flower in the same timeframe," says Sally Ferguson with the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center in Vermont. "Some varieties flower very quickly in around four to six weeks. Some can take as long as nine to 12 weeks to flower, while still others fall between at seven to 10 weeks." Planting amaryllis is easy. They are normally planted in small pots that are just a bit larger around than the bulb itself.... | |
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| | | Lawsuit could prick Net florist | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:24:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | Complaints abound on the Internet about the freshness of Pro Flowers.com's flowers despite the company's claims of having the "freshest flowers anywhere" because it bypasses middlemen and ships directly from the fields. "The roses were small and looked like they were going to die on the first day," Epinions.com member "Zuess1111" wrote about a dozen roses he bought for his wife two years ago. A posting by "xjetjock" said his flowers had "freezer burn" with many of the outside rose petals brown and wilted. Both of those customers would be eligible for a $10 store credit as part of a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused ProFlowers of deceptive marketing. San Diego-based Provide Commerce, which operates ProFlowers and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Douglas County-based Liberty Media, did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.... | |
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| | | Liberty Media Says Profit Rose at QVC Division (Update3) | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:18:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Liberty Media Corp., the company controlled by John Malone, said third-quarter profit rose 44 percent at its QVC home-shopping unit after customers bought more clothing at higher prices. Profit at Liberty Interactive Group, which contains QVC, increased to $257 million from $179 a year earlier, Englewood, Colorado-based Liberty Media said today in a statement. Sales climbed 12 percent to $1.65 billion. Demand for apparel and accessories drove higher U.S. sales volume and prices at QVC. The unit also benefited from international expansion and the addition of Provide Commerce Inc., an online seller of flowers Liberty bought in February. Malone separated Liberty Media's two divisions in May, creating two tracking stocks to simplify the structure.... | |
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| | | Excuses dwindle for failure to fix finances | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:13:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Attitude can go a long way toward spending money smarter. And a defeatist attitude will almost certainly mean you end up underachieving with money. Advertisers reinforce easy-but-insidious ideas to get you to spend your money now. It seems to be working, considering consumers' credit card debt levels--averaging nearly $9,200 per household with credit cards last year, according to CardTrak.com--and pitiful savings rates. Below are excuses people use every day for doing dumb things with their money and suggestions for an attitude adjustment. "I could die tomorrow, so I'll live for today." This attitude justifies actions of the buy-it-now and pay-for-it-whenever class. It's the primary excuse for not saving money. The solution is to develop a few financial goals, said Jean Chatzky, author of the new book "Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever." "It's very hard to get yourself to not spend money on something today, unless you've thought about what you might want more tomorrow," she said.... | |
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| | | Digital Music Group Announces Music Content Acquisitions | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:31:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | "Digital Music Group continues to build its music catalog with world-class content," said Mitchell Koulouris, Chief Executive Officer of DMGI. "The transactions announced today underscore our continued commitment to expanding our catalog with high-quality repertoire from the world's best independent labels." .... | |
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| | | Source of online health info often not checked: report | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:10:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | About three-quarters of Americans who go online for medical advice fail to consistently check the source and date of the information, a survey suggests. Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet Project in Washington, D.C., found about 10 million American adults, or seven per cent of internet users in the U.S., searched for health or medical information on the web in one day during August. Health websites often do not include the source and date of the information posted.(CBC) Health searches were about as popular as paying bills online, reading blogs or using the web to look up a phone number of address. But 75 per cent of health seekers said they check the source and date of health information they find online "only sometimes," "hardly ever," or "never," meaning they aren't checking for signs of quality in their search results.... | |
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| | | YWCA remembers | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:29:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | In observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, about 20 people gathered Tuesday at the Wells Street Bridge and threw flowers into the St. Marys River, symbolic of the approximately 1,500 men, women and children who embarked on a new life after getting help from the Fort Wayne YWCA's Self-Sufficiency Program last year. The program provides affordable housing for women and children age 5 and under, and teaches women life skills while they go to school. The Fort Wayne YWCA's domestic-violence shelter was the first in Indiana when it was founded 30 years ago. The YWCA also has programs to educate businesses about the effects of domestic violence in the workplace, and to help teens understand the importance of developing healthy relationships. A fundraiser is scheduled Nov.... | |
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