Monkinetic Weblog

From the Mac OS X Weblog - Jordan Hubbard is going to work for Apple.

Ok, thinking about Smart-Tags-done-right again... Here's a free idea. I'd like to see a Mac OS X service (probably need to be imeplemented in Java) that lets me download libraries of XLinks, then (optionally by using the service) tags words in my documents with a popup menu of possible links. This would build on work done in XLink, make use of existing Java-based XLink libraries, and be a total opt-in. Everything, of course, that Smart Tags aren't.

BTW - GBDirect does a lot of software development for IT-industry site The Register.

Well, ok, not really... But I checked out Fandango.Com after seeing the ads at the last few movies I've seen. Fandango (so far) seems relatively simple. Browse in, find a movie, and buy a ticket for your local theater. Cool!

GBDirect, a UK-based consulting firm, has some interesting eBusiness-related case studies on their site, including a good one on implementing an eCommerce site using open-source software.

With all the bruhaha going on about Microsoft's new Smart Tags feature (esp. in IE6) I have to wistfully note - intead of "Smart-Tags" in IE, Microsoft could have had a PR glory day and been the first to widely distribute a working implementation of XLink, the long-awaited XML-linking spec: