To use one tiny example, the legislation required that Medicare build a Web site directory of doctors by January.
He describes the time, in the mid-nineties, when Jerry Yang and David Filo took him to visit their campus trailer, which was littered with pizza boxes and soda cans, to show off a directory of Web sites called Yahoo.
The SportsTravel Web site contains a hotel directory listing which hotels are located nearest the stadiums and which hotels host the visiting teams.
Core to that tale of two hackers is a layer of the Web that acts as a digital directory assistance, the Domain Name System.
Intermark WebSnake: Formerly called Anawave WebSnake, this utility supports offline browsing, Web-site mirroring (including directory structures), e-mail address retrieval, site maps, and advanced file searches.
These initial forays have primarily been around offering employees mobile access to standard communications functions such as email, calendar and directory access and offering customers Web access to non-mission-critical functions.
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During the last year an API directory hosted by the Programmable Web, one of the leading information sources on APIs, grew as much as it had during the previous five years.
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Listen.com, also in San Francisco, is using a similar idea to build a directory of music on the web, complete with reviews written initially by its own reviewers, but incorporating the comments of visitors to its website as well.
The China Internet Network Information Center, which answers to China's Ministry of Information Industry, controls the master "directory" of ".cn" Web sites.
These novel products are called mashups, a marriage of bits of two or more Web sites to create a third product: a directory of pizzerias on a neighborhood map, for example, to show where the nearest deep-dish resides.
Yahoo's two original services, directory and search, now grab only 20% of the Web site's total page views.
It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.
This disruptive approach results in a directory meta-application, which links (like a browser calling up a Web page) to every individual application, cloud service, or Web site employees need.
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