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Confirm your registration today and save $1,495. http://searchCRM.com/r/0,,19798,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________ TODAY'S WORD: Foo Camp See our complete definition with hyperlinks at http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci944001,00.html?track=NL-34 Foo Camp was a gathering of about 200 computer and Internet thinkers and inventors who were invited by publisher O'Reilly and Associates to spend a week-end brainstorming, collaborating, and otherwise advancing progress in information technology. The invitational brainstorming session was held in October 2003 in Sebastapol, California in the hills north of San Francisco. Among those who attended were Tim Bray, a co-inventor of XML, and David Sifry, founder of Technorati, a search engine for blogs. Some of the ideas said to have been presented or worked on at the 2003 Foo Camp included: - A new approach for stopping spam - A new way to organize newsfeeds - A program that helps you search through your e-mail archives - A product, BitTorrent, that can serve large files simultaneously to a large number of users Like other such synergy-raising meetings, those who attended seem to expect the benefits to accrue gradually and somewhat mysteriously. The name of the gathering was a play on foo, a metasyntactic variable sometimes used by computer programmers. It could also be seen to stand for "Friends of O'Reilly." __________________________ RELATED TERMS: XML http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci213404,00.html?track=NL-34 blog http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci214616,00.html?track=NL-34 synergy http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci214544,00.html?track=NL-34 foo http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212139,00.html?track=NL-34 metasyntactic variable http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci752963,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: CNN.com's John Battelle has a story, "When geeks go camping, ideas hatch." http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/09/bus2.feat.geek.camp/ William Grosso reports his experience at the October 2003 Foo Camp. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3866 Tim Bray describes his experience in a blog entry. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/10/11/FooNotes Jeremy Zawodny wrote another blog travelog. http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001008.html ______________________ TODAY'S TECH NEWS: 2003 STORAGE PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR The editors of SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine sat down this past fall to assess the best products of 2003. http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci942863,00.html?track=NL-34 SAP INTRODUCES NEW RFID PACKAGE SAP today announced a new RFID package targeted at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suppliers. http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci944164,00.html?track=NL-34 NEW AD TOOL BRINGS USERS 'BACK FROM THE DEAD' A new version of Aelita Software's Active Directory recovery product will give AD users another option for reconstituting deleted objects online. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci943926,00.html?track=NL-34 >> Catch up on all the latest IT news at http://searchtechtarget.techtarget.com?track=NL-34 ______________________ SECRET WORD-OF-THE-DAY | What is IT? 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