[Sigia-l] Product for "automated information qualification"?!

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"Steven Champeon" wrote:

> Remember how "push technology" (a misleading term from the beginning, as
> it was just scheduled pull) was supposed to help us manage information
> overload? And how once sysadmins noticed all it did was flood networks
> with redundant crud and advertising, and it was pointed out to executives
> that stuff like Pointcast only ran on /idle/ machines, thereby assuring
> that their employees would only use it when they /weren't working/, it
> died a quiet death?

I remember the day Pointcast, allegedly, refused a $400+ million buyout
offer from News Corp. Those were the days!

After various corporate redresses, PointCast is back. Sort of:
<http://www.pointcast.com/>

Perhaps more pertinently, the concept of "push" lived on in different
contexts (such as automatic incremental software updating) with companies
like: 

Marimba
<http://www.marimba.com/>

BackWeb
<http://www.backweb.com/>

Actually, automatic OS updates (like foretold by the recent XP EULA) are a
type of push technology. Indeed, aspects of web services, RSS, blogs, etc
can be considered push. So I find the general notion still useful and yet to
be fully exploited.

Best,

Ziya