Mental notes to myself

An online store system, which may be implemented as a web site or another type of interactive system, presents context-sensitive information to customers about their prior orders during browsing of an electronic catalog of products. In one embodiment, when a customer accesses a detail page for a particular product, the detail page is supplemented with information, such as status information, about a related order placed by the customer. The related order may be an order for the product represented in the detail page or may be for a related product. Information about related orders may additionally or alternatively be added to other types of pages, such as product category pages and shopping cart pages. In one embodiment, a customer’s related order information is maintained in a cache during the customer’s browsing session, and the cache is updated in real time to reflect actions performed by the customer.

That means: When you are browsing a book at Amazon, it reminds you your previous orders.

This idea’s been lately patented by Amazon, after 4 years and 5 rejections…

link to patent

From The Globe&Mail: Could it be possible that Canada will make Google or any other Internet search and archiving engines illegal? Bill C-60, which amends the Copyright Act and received its first reading in the House of Commons on June 20, suggests it could be illegal for anyone to provide copyrighted information through “information-location tools,” which includes search engines

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from Open Loops

I was checking my website’s logs and saw something suspicious. So I decided to track the IP down.
I was really surprised about what I’ve found.
A new Feed tracker, but in French.

Track’n Feed

It says: bientôt disponible if you go by the domain name but try this : http://82.229.192.40/.
Everything seems working except the images.

Updates:
The site put the logo and pictures alive, but the domain is not still working…

Looks like we got an early look and possibly a name for the new Netflix movie download service. I’m wondering if the “Netflix Player” is a TiVo or possibly a new device.

from Hacking NetFlix

Traipsing around the Internet is the most popular form of loafing on the job. The insurance industry is particularly rife with goofing off, and Missouri is the top state for time-wasters.

from Cnet News

After watching the Longhorn- RSS and Browsing Teams 1 hour video, I was so amazed. At first it was something really unexpected from Microsoft. Supporting RSS at OS Level? Having APIs for RSS? Is Microsoft approaching to the open source guys by supporting RSS deeply?

Days passed and I see the things much clearer.

After reading this passage, you’ll understand the Microsoft way and Microsoft’s idea about computers and computer users (plus developers). The question you should ask to yourself is “What is an Operating System?”
Read more…

France Telecom’s wireless unit, Orange SA, will soon roll out a new mobile video service that will let cellular phone subscribers view TV, movies, photos and broadband Internet content with a big screen viewing effect using Kopin®-enabled video eyewear from U.S.-based MicroOptical Corp. Kopin Corp. (Nasdaq: KOPN - News), the largest U.S. manufacturer of microdisplays for mobile consumer electronics and military applications, has received an order for CyberDisplay® 230K microdisplays from MicroOptical for this application.

from 101reviews

From ron:
This makes me think nasty

A new website is coming up.

It seems like a nice idea derived from Flickr.
Flickr has a nice idea to organize photos. You can organize them as sets.

Howabout a photo site for your travel photos that you create sets out of it… It’ll surely create a community around it. I hope they market it well.
Here are some screenshots.

PHP 4.4.0 is just released.

Here is the change log.