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20th March 2000

Ars Libri, Ltd.

“Ars Libri maintains the largest stock in America of rare and out-of-print books on art. Founded in 1976, it has an international reputation as a source for scholars, collectors, artists, and everyone else with an interest in the visual arts. Ars Libri covers all periods and all fields of art history, from antiquity to the present, including architecture, archaeology, photography, and the decorative arts.”

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20th March 2000

Ars Libri, Ltd.

“Ars Libri maintains the largest stock in America of rare and out-of-print books on art. Founded in 1976, it has an international reputation as a source for scholars, collectors, artists, and everyone else with an interest in the visual arts. Ars Libri covers all periods and all fields of art history, from antiquity to the present, including architecture, archaeology, photography, and the decorative arts.”

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20th March 2000

Clickey.com

“Clickey is the Internet’s first domain-name-only search engine. And it has features not found on any other search engine because Clickey was built from the ground up with a desire to get back to basics.”

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20th March 2000

Persistent URL Page

“A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the actual URL and returns that URL to the client. The client can then complete the URL transaction in the normal fashion. In Web parlance, this is a standard HTTP redirect.”

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20th March 2000

Adobe LiveMotion Preview review

“LiveMotion has integration with other Adobe products, and its object-oriented approach offers a quicker way to create animations. However, because it lacks support for some advanced Flash features, such as complex scripting, LiveMotion won’t cause an exodus of Flash users to Adobe’s camp. Nevertheless, new animators and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator users will have an easy path to productivity.”

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20th March 2000

12 Clicks to Save Time, Have Fun

Jesse Berst: “Why should DotComGuy have all the fun? Everyone knows how competitive I am. So when I heard about the guy in Dallas living exclusively online click for more, I said, ‘Hey, I can be lazier than he is!’ To prove it, I planned the perfect stay-at-home weekend. Using Web services, I’ll get chores and errands out of the way fast — with plenty of time left to have fun delivered to my doorstep or downloaded to my PC.”

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20th March 2000

Bowie Interviews Self For “NYT Magazine”

“David Bowie has penned an article for a special section of [last] Sunday’s ‘The New York Times Magazine,’ in which the Thin White Duke interviews himself at the age of 24. Bowie, who also appears on the cover of the ‘Fashion Of The Times’ insert, conducts a dialogue with his younger self (who would be in between recording 1970’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ and 1972’s landmark ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust’ LPs) and the two discuss everything from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ to Cher’s TV show.”

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20th March 2000

Clickey.com

“Clickey is the Internet’s first domain-name-only search engine. And it has features not found on any other search engine because Clickey was built from the ground up with a desire to get back to basics.”

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20th March 2000

Halfbrain.com

“Halfbrain is reinventing the web with tools that transform static pages into intelligent applications. Non-programmers can now author sophisticated, interactive content quickly and easily. BrainMatter, our first product, is a full-featured spreadsheet application written entirely in Dynamic HTML.”

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20th March 2000

Icons at the User Interface

“Icons need to be able to transition between being image, text, sound or animation. Those with these properties could be referred to as MITs or metabits — smart intelligent signs that undergo metamorphosis and are responsive.”

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