Matthew Broersma discusses the acquisition and compares the scalability of NewHoo’s volunteer community to Yahoo’s paid staff powered directory.

Discusses both Netscape and IBM releasing source code for their Gecko browser and Jikes Java compiler respectively. Netscape’s acquisition of NewHoo is mentioned along with their plans to rename it Open Directory Project.

"Google.com seems to have it all...But one thing Google doesn't seem to have -- or at least isn't answering questions about -- is a business plan."

Article by Michael A. Olson stating that Open source quietly makes a big difference.

Discusses historical move from low level languages to higher level interpreted ones, productivity, future developments. Active feedback response. [ZDNet News]

A paper discussing Microsoft's Visual Basic new version. By Mary Jo Foley.

COMMENTARY--Online privacy isn't the issue it once was, if indeed people really ever cared about it.

New privacy-enhancing controls in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 can be rendered useless by a long-known security flaw in Windows Media Player.

ZDNet News Article: Consumer groups say P3P technology allows companies to collect more consumer information, not less.

Malicious 'worm' capable of destroying data on infected machines is spreading. (ZDNet)