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Remember Pointcast, which was valued in billions at one point in time and was eventually sold to news Corp for a mere $7 million?
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal Venky 2008
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Remember Pointcast, which was valued in billions at one point in time and was eventually sold to news Corp for a mere $7 million?
Archive 2008-05-02 Venky 2008
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It seemed destined to be one of those things, rather like Pointcast (for those who remember it), which was acknowledged by Internet commentators to be massively important, but which was never actually successful.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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Globe and Mail April 1 Likens RSS news feeds and news readers to the old push news format of Pointcast several years ago.
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It seemed destined to be one of those things, rather like Pointcast (for those who remember it), which was acknowledged by Internet commentators to be massively important, but which was never actually successful.
All of a Twitter 2009
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Pointcast allowed you to subscribe to a limited range of 'Premium' content providers, a synonym for useless offline content like 'weather' 'sports' and 'finance' which no-one got any value from because it was everywhere: In the morning newspapers, on the front page of every portal, and not specialised at all to my interest.
Archive 2005-06-01 Ben Barren 2005
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RSS is absolutely different to Netscape or Pointcast; Netscape was merely a browser, which never became a 'portal' play as much as they tried.
The RSS Remix Economy Ben Barren 2005
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Microsoft and Netscape both claimed that Push technology would change everything, and Pointcast tried to build a business on it.
Boing Boing: February 20, 2005 - February 26, 2005 Archives 2005
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RSS is absolutely different to Netscape or Pointcast; Netscape was merely a browser, which never became a 'portal' play as much as they tried.
Archive 2005-06-01 Ben Barren 2005
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Pointcast allowed you to subscribe to a limited range of 'Premium' content providers, a synonym for useless offline content like 'weather' 'sports' and 'finance' which no-one got any value from because it was everywhere: In the morning newspapers, on the front page of every portal, and not specialised at all to my interest.
The RSS Remix Economy Ben Barren 2005
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