Monday, July 17, 2006 - Posts

My Netscape

The latest incarnation of Netscape is under fire by passionate users of the previous Netscape Portal.

2006-07-17 19:18:12 sanchu:

It cant be good that all the posts here are negative with the few supporting posts coming from netscape workers LOL.

Interactive Netscape Site Gets Some Sour Responses

It’s sad to see what has become of the once prominent software company that monetized the University of Illinois MOSIC technology to become the first graphical internet browser.

The Netscape browser was a free download, the company made money by selling stock. Their mission statement was something about making Microsoft the plumbing while they became the universal UI, but then something happened to their oxygen supply….

I downloaded that first Netscape browser, then the second, the third and forth. Netscap's home page was my Start Page because it was one of the first sites that allowed personalization, My Netscape. So why doesn’t the new Netscape copy the old and allow its passionate users to customize their portal experience so some will have links and others will get a Digg digest.

AOL is going to be Toast if they don’t get this right; their user base is shrinking, the stock price is falling and that oxygen supply.....

Old vs. New Netscape (or "if you could change GeoCities into MySpace in 2002 would you have?")

The age of customerism and producerism 

Robots in College

Microsoft announced the creation of the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) in partnership with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College. The institute is designed to reinvigorate computer science curriculum by delivering robotics technology tailored for teaching purposes, scientifically evaluated for its effectiveness in live teaching situations. The resulting materials will be made available widely to the academic community.

Under the alliance, Microsoft will provide the College of Computing at Georgia Tech with $1 million (U.S.) paid over three years to develop — as part of the IPRE — practical new ways to bring robotics technology into the computer science curriculum. Matching Microsoft’s support, an additional $1 million for the institute will be provided by the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College.

We want to use the power of robotics to capture the imagination of tomorrow’s computer scientists - Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft

I thought the American education system was doing a pretty good job of producing robots, but maybe this new initiative will inspire the creation of intelligent life.

Microsoft Robotics