MSFT Kills HTML Email!

Microsoft takes email design back 5 years – Campaign Monitor Blog – Article detailing how Outlook 2007 goes retro and uses the crippled Microsoft Word Rendering Engine to display HTML instead of Internet Explorer.  In a nutshell this means that CSS for email layout is not going to work.  Can’t say I’m upset here.  Email is a text based anyway.  If you have something to say, say it in text.  I really don’t like all the layout stuff in email and often opt not to get emails that are only formated in with CSS and HTML.

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Highlight The Web With Cite Bite

Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in returnget a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.

Cite Bite – Link directly to specific quotes in web pages

Cool.  Uses some sort of overlay to highlight the text on a page you give it.  Pretty handy, but does require you to have a lot of links to Cite Bite around.  And what happens to your cites if CB goes away?

Via Library Stuff.

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Is There A Web 2.0 Bubble? Nah!

2006 may have been a sign that things were getting a little overheated. One long term problem with VCs is that if they get locked out of a hot deal, they fund a competitor. The result is three or four funded startups for every good idea, and they have to fight it out until one hits critical mass and the Network Effect kicks in. This seems to be playing out with the market niche of online slide shows – Slide, FilmLoop, RockYou and Photobucket all have similar products and all are funded. FilmLoop is in trouble, and the other three will continue on fighting.

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Bubble, Bubble, Bubble

Good article that describes the differences between the current Web 2.0 hype and the .COM bubble of the late nineties.  Bottom line: lots of companies fail, lots of VCs make bad investments, and this ain’t no bubble.

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