Who: Mark Weiser, Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC, father of ubiquitous computing.
Alternative Career: Drummer for Severe Tire Damage, the first live band on the Internet: (http://www.std.org)
E-mail: weiser@weiser.org
URL: http://www.ubiq.com/weiser
Favorite Search Engine: AltaVista (http://www.altavista.digital.com)
Surfing Manifesto: Use bookmarks less, search more -- typing a few words into AltaVista finds the page just as fast.
Suck
New postmodernesque hypertext essay every day. Weird. Fun.
Internet Travel Network
Free, secure Internet wizard for making travel plans. Knows all airline schedules, can even make ticket bookings at your local travel agent.
IUMA: Online Concerts
http://www.iuma.com/IUMA-2.0/brew/concerts .
Online mbone live music, history, and current events. The mbone is the future of the Internet.
Internet for Cats
http://www.execpc.com/~judyheim/internet4cats.html
Internet for cats.
Ex Machina
Page your friends for free from the Net.
Volksware
Mobile and pen-based computing gadget online magazine.
Review/ITP
http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~review/
Online student magazine of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. Well-designed, thoughtful.
Telephone Directories on the Web
http://www.c2.org/~buttle/tel/index.html
Worldwide online telephone, fax, and business directories. Search for long-lost friends in Slovenia.
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