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...dubbed folksonomy--a taxonomy of knowledge organized by ordinary folk. Yahoo! was quick to spot this trend, and in March bought Flickr, a photo website organized with a communal tagging model. Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo!'s technology director, says the company wants to apply search across all its user-created content. The tagline? "Better search through people...
...take China by storm as the online marketplace exploded, that it would be, as Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck puts it, a "layup." In 1999, Shao Yibo, a Harvard Business School graduate, started EachNet, an e-commerce company, in China. Shao's site openly aped eBay in style and content, effectively screaming "buy me" at the San Jose, California, giant. In 2002 eBay complied, paying $30 million for a third of the company and taking the rest for an additional $150 million the following year. This, arguably, was a hefty price for a start-up in a market...
...does it work? RSS is an aggregator, a program that scans other websites that are also configured with RSS. It looks for key words or subjects, then downloads the content, so you don't have to spend the time surfing...
...secretary who clips newspapers and magazines that you might be interested in and forwards them to your computer desktop. How Does It Work? RSS is an aggregator, a program that scans other websites that are also configured with RSS. It looks for key words or subjects, then downloads the content, so you don't have to spend the time surfing. Who Needs It? Anyone who spends a lot of time returning to a favorite group of websites looking for updated postings will be interested. RSS does the searching automatically, saving you the time...
NOTHING FISHY ABOUT CERTIFIED LOW-MERCURY TUNA FISH Two new brands of canned tuna promise a safer salad. Carvalho Fisheries uses only young albacore, which has consistently lower mercury content than older, larger fish, while King of the Sea uses the smaller yellowfin tuna...