December 26, 2000

XHTML is now a standard

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

Web services shut down

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 year in pictures

MSNBC: The year in pictures

Fed will lower rates in Jan 2001

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

Comments people make in passing.

AOLiza conversations

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…