why, or if, I should care about the newly-beta-released Google Web APIs? They took a shot at it on MeFi, but fell short of the mark.
Archives for April 2002
Via Doc Searls:
Shell gets a clue. Doc links to an article by David Weinberger about Royal Dutch/Shell’s online forum. Unlike most representatives of the genre, it isn’t a tightly controlled and highly sanitized bit of fluff but a really open forum for comment and criticism. Importantly, it’s not just a handful of Shell employees who are authorized to respond either – anyone can add their commentary in response to posts. Even when they accuse Shell of murdering people.
Sylvain Carle
noticed that the Handspring Treo is available now in Canada, from Rogers. The price is enough to make you think not twice but three or four times, but nonetheless…
From Mark Simonson Studio
: Typecasting: the use (and misuse) of type in period movies. He rates movies on their use of type that is appropriate to the period during which the events of the film take place.
The truth
behind Google’s all around excellence: Pigeonrank [tm].
