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...motivations of sites that attempt to build forums and communities as a way of getting people to stay on their sites and buy more products, creating the guide is h2g2's raison d'etre. Soon h2g2 plans to introduce a premium service allowing users to receive a "smarticle," a text-based phone message summarizing sightseeing tips for a particular area, saving mobile users search time and reducing phone charges. h2g2 will make money through subscription charges and by taking a cut of mobile operators' airtime revenues, says the firm's chief operating officer, Ted Bissell. h2g2's website already boasts...
...Babel Fish--a device he describes that can be inserted into the ear to give the listener instant translation of all languages--doesn't exist. But h2g2 has licensed the Babel Fish name to a service run by search engine Alta Vista, which offers computer-based automatic translations of text in seven languages. There are plans to use that service to provide multiple-language versions of h2g2 within the next year...
...declared the survivor, I felt like a shadow of my former self. How else to regain the magic and splendor of the weekly reality-based show, I thought, than to relive my favorite moments all over again with the official companion book, Survivor: The Ultimate Game? Unfortunately, this text has only left me thirsting even more for the next season in the Australian Outback. The book, written by Executive Producer Mark Burnett and long-time adventure writer Martin Dugard, fails miserably to recapture the conflicts, competition and connivances that made the television series irresistible. Hastily written while Burnett was still...
...thought to be a type of epilepsy, van Gogh placed himself in a mental institution in St.-RŽmy. The last room of the exhibit, treating the last year of the artist's life, is flurried and rushed, and once again painted in somber blue. Even the text on the wall reads like a timeline - first St.-RŽmy, then Auvers and Dr. Gachet, then suicide with a shot in the chest...
...site has gone an extensive front-end design change. Instead of black text on a white background with blue links, the simplest and most common look, especially for beginning sites, HOLLIS now comes in brown and crimson, with useful buttons and pull-down menus at the top and a consistent seal on all pages...