A record of the Dacian Campaign and a monument to logistics.

Images of the world. Big images. “An original Russian satellite image from SPIN-2, for example, is a 40-kilometer by 160-kilometer sized photographic swath of a particular area of earth… The files Microsoft receives still contain too much data to be effectively downloaded over the Internet. Depending on the type of image — satellite or aerial photograph — a single image can range between 50 MB and 1,500 MB in size. The TerraServer team wrote an image processing program that takes several of these large input files at a time, computes the image’s location on earth, and merges pixels from multiple files into one single photo. The merged images are then cut into smaller images and compressed in the JPEG file format so Web browsers can recognize them.”

Images of the world. Big images. “An original Russian satellite image from SPIN-2, for example, is a 40-kilometer by 160-kilometer sized photographic swath of a particular area of earth… The files Microsoft receives still contain too much data to be effectively downloaded over the Internet. Depending on the type of image — satellite or aerial photograph — a single image can range between 50 MB and 1,500 MB in size. The TerraServer team wrote an image processing program that takes several of these large input files at a time, computes the image’s location on earth, and merges pixels from multiple files into one single photo. The merged images are then cut into smaller images and compressed in the JPEG file format so Web browsers can recognize them.”

“The latest trend in search technology attempts to leave search and navigation sites behind. Two start-ups, GuruNet and Flyswat, let users in search of information find it without visiting a separate Web page like Yahoo or the other search engines. Both companies’ applications launch a small pop-up window that lists a variety of resources about selected topics.”

“As a collaborative filtering site, PHOAKS exists to help us all help each other find appropriate and relevant web resources in a simple and timely manner. Here’s how it works. People post their opinions of web resources in Usenet Netnews (you can too). Around the clock, PHOAKS reads, classifies, abstracts and tallies those opinions automatically. PHOAKS’ pages here reflect the results.”

“These galleries have screen shots of a Latin sentence taken from four browser/platform combinations: IE 5/Mac, Navigator 4.7/Mac, IE 5.5/PC, and Navigator 4.7/PC. Each font has examples of sizes specified in points, pixels, and basic HTML font tags to illustrate how font rendering characteristics can affect page appearance. Try opening multiple browser windows to compare different gallery pages. Due to the sheer number of screen shots, the gallery pages themselves may take a while to load.”

“…I would visit the same 20 or so US newspaper sites every single day. Lots of tedious clicking and waiting. It occurred to me that scanning all these papers could be accelerated greatly by stitching them together inside a single web page…”

“The Hypermedia Design Pattern Repository for WWW is an initiative of ACM-SIGWEB in collaboration with the University of Italian Switzerland. Its goal is to allow a larger community to reuse design experience gathered by other designers of hypermedia applications and systems, by providing useful Design Patterns. These Design Patterns cover various aspects of WWW development, including: structure of information, navigation, interfaces, etc. Design Patterns for specific application areas will also be welcome.”