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HotFlash 4.30 - Popular Science

HotFlash 4.30
for the week of 4 July 1997
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Popular Science
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Webmonkey: Build the Web

In the tradition of Frankenstein's monster, HTML's an experiment that
got out of the lab too soon - and quickly found itself pushed to the
limit by an unruly mob with ideas of its own. Where will it go from
here? This week in Webmonkey, Jeffrey Veen talks with Tim Bray of the
XML project about progress, metadata, and the extended markup language
spec. Plus: Web 101's guide to acronyms and Geek Talk's take on IMAP.

     http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/


Net Surf: Surf the Web

Joey Anuff finds Bob Pittman ditching his tried-and-true boomers for a
demographic with marketing in its blood, as AOL infiltrates Sam Goody
with an assist from the Wu-Tang Clan. A show of youthful business savvy,
a whiff of the spaz-marketed future - in Net Surf.

     http://www.hotwired.com/netsurf/


Synapse: Think the Web

Today the Net's one big borderless country, says Simson Garfinkel, but
some day soon, the world's wired nations will be putting checkpoints at
their electronic borders - not to censor, but to block data criminals
and infowar terrorists. Get Garfinkel on global data crime, Katz on the
rise of the geek, Biggs on old-media hacks who still don't get the Net,
and e-commerce's golden boy Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com in the HotSeat -
all in Synapse, made possible by Intrigue.

     http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/


Dream Jobs: Work the Web

There's more to Motor City than cars, and there's more to Detroit design
firm Sigma6 than building car-company Web sites - though those corporate
gigs do pay the bills. The automotive schtick aside, the designers at
Sigma6 are deep into Detroit techno, pouring their multimedia expertise
into the city's music scene. We've found a job there for a graphic
designer - along with a position for an Internet coordinator at The
Feminist Majority.  And check out our new feature, the Greener Grass
List, an index of 100 companies we'd love working for - in this week's
Dream Jobs, made possible by Dockers Khakis (tm).

     http://www.hotwired.com/dreamjobs/


Beta Lounge: Hear the Web

Future soul meets mutant jazz in the beat labs of the Beta Lounge, where
turntablist science brings even diehard skeptics around to the sound.
This week clock new remixes with Doc Scott, Ed Rush, J Majik, and MC
Justiyc - plus Detroit Techno Godfather Stacey Pullen, D. Styles, and
Peanut Butter Wolf. And on Thursday, let the Network Syndicate DJs and
special guest Endemic Void pump your head full of high-voltage
breakbeats through a live pipe.

     http://www.betalounge.com/


RGB Gallery: Clear Your Cache

Shatter your preconceptions of what art on the Web can be: For its debut
exhibit, RGB - a digital gallery featuring works created exclusively for
HotWired - presents antirom, a British collective whose interactive
Shockwave "engines" let you do the driving.

     http://www.hotwired.com/rgb/


Live chat in Talk.com

Wednesday in Wired Talk: Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden field questions
about their optimistic and contentious vision of the future, as reported
in "The Long Boom," WIRED 5.07.

     http://www.talk.com/hf/


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refreshing respite from more syrupy cocktails - but don't confuse
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     http://www.cocktailtime.com/hf/


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