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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:

“This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today’s HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.”

Had they done this, and left the choice in the hands of the site developer as to including them in a page, they would be on the opposite end of the web-media shit-storm that’s going on now.

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

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

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.

Wes Felter’s discussion group is one of the most intellectual pieces of ‘net property I visit. I only lurk, as I honestly don’t always follow everything that’s said there. Folks to listen to: Aaron Swartz, David McCusker. David’s mind especially is incredibly dense. And I mean that in the nicest way - his brain, as visualized on the intellectual space-time-continuum would be like a black hole. Warning: David’s weblog is a journey through a mind that does not work like yours.

Inessential: “Cocoa and Objective C seem (so far) much cooler than I expected. So when I see the mountain of things that are so damn right with OS X — and Cocoa is just one of many things — the few things that are not right just bug me all the more.”

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