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The Internet isn't just about data; it is an international community of people who share information, interact, and communicate. From the point of view of its users, the Internet is a vast collection of resources--people, information, and multimedia.
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A developing trend that seems likely to continue in the future is an information centric view of the Internet that can live in parallel with the current communications centric view. Many of the concerns about intellectual property protection are difficult to deal with, not because of fundamental limits in the law, but rather by technological and perhaps management limitations in knowing how best to deal with these issues. A digital object infrastructure that makes information objects “first-class citizens” in the packetized “primordial soup” of the Internet is one step in that direction. In this scheme, the digital object is the conceptual elemental unit in the information view; it is interpretable (in principle) by all participating information systems. The digital object is ... an abstraction that may be implemented in various ways by different systems. It is a critical building block for interoperable and heterogeneous information systems.
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Behaviors leverage the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and scripting capabilities in Internet Explorer 5 or later. This gallery is a collection of attached behaviors that encapsulate component functionality and behavior into a scripted HTML Component (HTC) file. Most of the behaviors can be applied directly to a page without the need for programming, yet all the behaviors in this library can ... be programmed with script.
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Miriam Abacha, the wife of the late Nigerian head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, is a prominent and respected Internet figure. After the mysterious death of her husband, she was informed by her lawyer, Bello Gambari, that her husband who at the time was the president of Nigeria, showed him four metal boxes of foreign money to be transferred overseas for foreign investment.
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Facebook has become the leading topic of conversation about the Internet this week as the company has opened up their site as a platform for widget developers. What Netscape could not have Facebook portends to do.
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There is a great deal written and said about development of Internet sites, with much of the emphasis being placed on usability, navigation, and appearance. It is now time to throw another factor into the mix — readability.
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