I bet Conversant works really well. They've been working on the service for many months. Their work deserves a careful review by people who use Manila and Frontier. Silicon Valley is now well on its way to becoming an affluent, fast-paced urban environment, stretching from San Francisco to San Jose. It is sophisticated, it is cutthroat and it is one of the most amazing places on Earth right now.
Life imitates art in Web confession sites .
This year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival featured an impressive array of Webcam and Weblog site proprietors who are committed to making people see that the Internet as a medium can be more than just an online mall. Tim O'Reilly talks with Richard Stallman on patents. If only the nontrivial new ideas are off limits for 20 years, that will be enough to keep us 20 years behind the times.