A free personal shopper for Internet news hounds
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Create Your Own Newspaper (Crayon) allows users to customize their own Web pages from 700 sources. The free on-line service, which lists more than 150,000 users, targets those who prefer one-stop shopping for Web links and organizer functions. Crayon distinguishes itself from utility shareware and news-gathering software by resembling a superbookmark for current events that does not consume any hard drive space. Users who log onto Crayon's home page (www.crayon.net) organizes a personalized newspaper from links to on-line news sources. Most major US daily editions are available, in addition to dozens of foreign newspapers and specialized sites such as sports. Users also can access pages as diverse as David Letterman's Top 10 list and the Cool Pet Site of the Day. Bucknell University graduates Dave Maher and Jeff Boulter created Crayon in 1995 while still in college.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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In the service of a warrior princess
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Numerous Internet entries devote themselves to 'Xena: Warrior Princess,' the popular syndicated TV show. Users access Usenet newsgroups, chat rooms and unofficial Web pages to discuss the show in detail. A large Internet following has made 'Xena' more popular, according to Web designer and Whoosh Web master Betsy Book. Whoosh, an elegant and thorough monthly magazine with a whoosh.org address, describes itself as the journal of the International Association of Xena Studies. Fans and Xena Studies association members submit summaries, breaking news, gossip and thoughtful articles. Among the most popular Web sites is Tom's Xena Page, www.xenafan.com, which founder Tom Simpson says averages 5,000 daily hits. Literary-minded fans also can contribute to the site, whose 800MB of offerings include downloadable sound clips, image files and video portions.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Choose some 'good old days' and see how they really were
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Personal nostalgia seekers can deploy several Web sites. The dMarie Time Capsule (dmarie.com/asp/history/.asp) provides information based on a specific birthday or other significant date between 1900 and 1997. Not only can users scan the leading headlines within three months of the date, they also can recall the year's top sports stories and popular songs. Other trivial information includes average income, the prices of a stamp and a gallon of milk and Academy Award winners. Users can customize virtual scrapbooks as well as access chat rooms, discussion boards and a poetry database through the d.Marie.com site. The History Channel's Web site (historychannel.com/thisday) provides a more specific alternative as the on-line companion to its popular 'This Day in History' television spot.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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