December 2000

I cut an audio CD-R today. Remix downloads came in handy. Only problem is, I goofed up, and closed the session before fully testing the CD. So I can listen to the songs only on a computer.

XHTML is now a standard. It can be used instead of HTML for portable devices.

Finance.com has shut down. Desktop.com too. NetZero. And the biggest of all: Pets.com (chart). This is more the trend than exception. People who had accounts on these? Tough luck! That’s one reason to stick to big players like Yahoo or Microsoft.

MSNBC: The year in pictures

You can use the Fed Futures to get the market’s estimate of whether the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates. My guess, based on the numbers is that it will happen in late January 2001. Buy up stocks before then!

Comments people make in passing.

AOLiza continues. People still have conversations with a program in a chat room, without knowing it. Conversation 42, for example, is a fairly desperate 23-year old working in Starbucks, and…

Wal-Mart is the second largest company in the world in terms of revenues. Only 2 IT companies made to the top 10: IBM and AT&T

My guess is, with the US market slowdown, the Fed will reduce interest rates, software stocks will pickup again and live happily ever after. Time to buy IT, not sell!

Some time soon, we’ll be using something like VisorPhone or Stinger – which are like handheld computers with a mobile phone. Forget the keyboard. We’ll be talking to them!

Are credit card transactions on the Net safe? Egghead had their’s stolen.

Now that SEBI has relaxed the IPO floor from Rs. 250 crores to Rs. 100 crores, we can see a lot more IPOs.

Would someone please tell Sushma Swaraj to hurry up the Convergence Bill? Now we have to wait till the budget session!!

TechTarget is a search engine on all kinds of IT topics, likd Linux, EBusiness, SAP, etc.

Jain Internet is the first to move from a free ISP to a paid one. How long before the rest follow? LESSONS: It’s NOT okay to sell products for less than what they cost ( USA Today).

Strong numbers searches through auctions and tells you what the fair price of any product is. Now, that’s market information!

A neat Tom & Jerry site. Also has video clips.

Planet-M is online.

Oxford School of Learning is a free online B-school of sorts. Lots of case studies (with answers), reviews, etc.

Phone calls through the Net are legal. This is based on the GOT-IT report.