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TDII Extra: Novell Buying and Selling
Today in 1994, Novell acquired WordPerfect and Quattro Pro in an attempt to compete with Microsoft’s word processing and spreadsheet products. Continuing to lose market share, Novell sold the products to Corel in January 1996. Today it was announced that … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Catmul’s Law
Fifteen years ago today, Toy Story opened in U.S. theaters, the first feature-film to be made entirely with computer-generated imagery (CGI). The current issue of ACM Queue magazine features Ed Catmul, President of Pixar Animation Studios, talking with Stanford computer … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: World TV Day
Today is World Television Day. On 21 and 22 November 1996 the United Nations held the first World Television Forum, “where leading media figures met under the auspices of the United Nations to discuss the growing significance of television in … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: First Sighting of Hackers
Today in 1963, the MIT student newspaper reported that many telephone services have been curtailed “because of so-called hackers,” the earliest known use of the term.
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Library Books per Capita, by State
The Tetherless World Constellation project at RPI mines open government datasets using semantic web technologies. So far, they have developed 45 demos, one of them showing library books per inhabitants of each state in the U.S. Other questions you may … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quotes: Chicken Soup for the Soul
Rameses II, who ascended the throne in 1300 B.C.E., assembled a library that contained official documents, literature, historical treatises, and works of moral philosophy and proverbial wisdom, science, and medicine. Rameses’ library bears the inscription “the dispensary of the soul” … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: First Dated Book Printed in English
Today in 1477, William Caxton published Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers. It was the first dated book printed in English. It contains not only the date, but for the first time in England, a printer’s colophon showing the name … Continue reading
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Only Connect: What Facebook Means to Young People
Two interesting discussions of the role Facebook plays in the lives of the young: Jeff Jarvis on college students who “are making use of the internet that is truer to its nature: It is not a medium but is a … Continue reading
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The Death of the News Blog: Print to the Rescue
Larry Kramer, founder of CBS MarketWatch, writes today about Nick Denton’s (Gawker’s) decision to abandon the blog format in favor of “curation.” What it means is that the old print, yes, dare I say it, “old” newspaper and magazine print … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: The Beatles on iTunes
Fake Steve Jobs on today’s significance. But the money quote (his term) came yesterday, about the Facebook “this is not email” annoucnement: “This, we are told, is the future of messaging. All of these feeds (IMs, SMS, email) streamed into … Continue reading
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