From crispen@INTERNIC.NET Sat Oct 11 00:23:48 1997
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:09:01 -0400
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Subject: TOURBUS -- 2 OCTOBER 1997 -- GOOD MORNING SILICON VALLEY!
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): GOOD MORNING SILICON VALLEY!
TODAY'S ADDRESS: http://www.sjmercury.com/gmsv/
Howdy, y'all!
Your fearless bus driver goofed. In my last TOURBUS post, I wrote that
One of Snap! Online's other biggest problems is that its chat
client is only compatible with Internet Explorer 3.02 or later.
Snap! Online has signed an agreement with Microsoft making Snap!
Online one of the preset channels in Microsoft's upcoming release
of Internet Explorer 4.0. In other words, don't be expecting
Snap! Online's chat rooms to support Netscape anytime soon. :(
It turns out that while the second sentence in that paragraph (the one
about Snap! Online's agreement with Microsoft to make Snap! Online a
present channel in IE4) is accurate, the first and third sentences in that
paragraph aren't. Karen Wood, CNET's Vice President for Public Relations,
asked me to point out that
text on the initial version of our account creation screen, which
was intended to convey that MSIE users must have MSIE 3.02 with
Authenticode 2 (or a subsequent version of MSIE), led some people
to assume that MSIE was the only platform supported. In fact, we
have supported both MSIE and Netscape Navigator 3.0 (or later)
for Windows 95 from the get-go.
. . . We would greatly appreciate your running a correction for
your readers, not only to let them know that we support both
browsers, but to absolve Snap! Online of being in cahoots with
Microsoft, an incorrect and unjust assumption to which we take
great offense!
I am happy to set this matter straight. On a lighter note, I recently
received an e-mail letter from my younger brother (the first e-mail letter
he ever sent!), and I thought that his comments would give you a chuckle:
You have to come home and try this "dinner" thing. From what I
understand you cook food on the stove and then eat the food at
the table on plates? We also found this hole in the wall in the
kitchen that came with the house that heats food. We first
thought this was a small closet. But when we put our linen in,
it would catch on fire, so we decided to put some meat in it and
it heated it up. Much like a microwave, just a little slower.
The sad thing is that I'm willing to bet that a lot of you can relate to
this. I am convinced that were it not for microwaves and snack machines,
half of the people on the Net would be dead now. :)
Anyway, let's get today's tour of our little bus of Internet happiness
underway . . .
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GOOD MORNING SILICON VALLEY
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No, former U.S. Air Force Sergeant and disc jockey Adrian Cronauer has not
moved to Santa Clara County (the last I heard he's still a partner at a
Washington, DC law firm). "Good Morning Silicon Valley" (GMSV) is the high
technology section of the San Jose (California) Mercury News' "Mercury
Center."
The San Jose Mercury News' Mercury Center is the self-proclaimed "worldwide
newspaper of the Silicon Valley Community." Located in the heart of the
Silicon Valley -- I have heard that San Jose is the largest city in
Northern California, but I'm not sure that I believe it -- the San Jose
Mercury News is considered by many (including me) to be one of the best
sources in the world for the latest news from the technology front.
Why should _you_ care about news from the Silicon Valley? Well, with
companies like Adobe, Alta Vista, Apple, Cisco Systems, Claris, Global
Village, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Infoseek, Intel, Lotus, Netscape, Novell,
Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo! (just to name a few) all having
offices in or around the Silicon Valley, whatever happens in the Silicon
Valley will eventually have an impact on you and your computer . . .
regardless of where you live.
Good Morning Silicon Valley can be found on the Web at
http://www.sjmercury.com/gmsv/
The Neat thing about GMSV is that it has 4 different sections:
FIRST LIGHT (updated every morning at 1 A.M. Pacific Standard
Time (08:00 GMT)). First Light presents the news and topics that
are the latest "buzz" in the Silicon Valley. For example, this
morning's articles included a story about WorldCom's takeover bid
of MCI (titled "Good Morning, Silicon Valley . . . and where did
WorldCom get such a big appetite?") and a story about the
American Cancer Society's recent "Cattle Baron's Ball" fund-
raiser.
MORNING (updated every morning at 8:30 A.M. PST (15:30 GMT)).
This is my favorite part of GMSV. GMSV's Morning section
contains the latest technology news stories taken from the wire
services, the Web, and other news sources. The folks at the
Mercury Center aren't going to appreciate my saying this -- hey,
maybe I'll get a chance to hear from *their* Vice President for
public relations -- but I find that GMSV's Morning section is the
perfect companion to CNET's news.com. In fact, if you visit both
GMSV's Morning section and CNET's news.com every day, you are
pretty much guaranteed to know every technology news story worth
knowing.
PC101 (updated every day at Noon (19:00 GMT)). PC101 contains
how-to and special interest stories. For example, today's
edition had a story about how to create music online and another
story on how National Geographic has put 108 years of their old
issues on a 30-CD-ROM set (for only $199!). [By the way, the
National Geographic CD-ROMs will be in stores by Christmas.]
TECH STOCKS (updated every afternoon at 2:30 P.M. PST (21:30
GMT)). Since 2:30 P.M. on the West Coast is the same as 5:30 PM
on the East Coast, GMSV's 2:30 P.M. Tech Stock section is really
a closing stock market report on how technology firms fared on
Wall Street. However, the Tech Stock section is a great place to
find out about technology deals made "after the bell."
TECH TICKER (updated every night at 8:00 P.M. (03:00 GMT)). A
lot can happen between 2:30 P.M. and 8:00 P.M., especially in the
technology business. The Tech Ticker section is one of the best
places on the Net to find breaking technology stories hours
before these stories are available on any of the other news
sites.
GMSV's site "rotates" these sections throughout the day. That means that
you will see different sections depending on the time of day that you
access GMSV's site [if you access GMSV's site in the early morning here in
the United States, you'll see the "First Light" section; if you access it
mid-morning, you'll see the "Morning" section]. You can access any of
GMSV's sections at any time of the day, however, by just clicking on that
section's icon.
One serious note, and I'll bring today's tour to an end (and I do this only
because I know that someone is going to ask me about this): a few of you
may remember that the San Jose Mercury News recently received some negative
publicity for their three part series titled "Dark Alliance" which
erroneously linked the spread of crack cocaine in Los Angeles to the CIA's
fund-raising efforts to support the Nicaraguan Contras. Negative publicity
aside, the San Jose Mercury is still one of the best, most respected news
organizations in the world, and their Good Morning Silicon Valley section
is a must-read for anyone who wants to keep abreast of the latest news in
the world of high technology.
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): GOOD MORNING SILICON VALLEY!
TODAY'S ADDRESS: http://www.sjmercury.com/gmsv/
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