Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau

Thursday, August 16, 2007

The name Robert Cailliau may not ring a bell to the general public, but his invention is the reason why you are reading this: Dr. Cailliau together with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible so it could grow from an academic tool to a mass communication medium. Last January Dr. Cailliau retired from CERN, the European particle physics lab where the WWW emerged.

Wikinews offered the engineer a virtual beer from his native country Belgium, and conducted an e-mail interview with him (which started about three weeks ago) about the history and the future of the web and his life and work.

Wikinews: At the start of this interview, we would like to offer you a fresh pint on a terrace, but since this is an e-mail interview, we will limit ourselves to a virtual beer, which you can enjoy here.

Robert Cailliau: Yes, I myself once (at the 2nd international WWW Conference, Chicago) said that there is no such thing as a virtual beer: people will still want to sit together. Anyway, here we go.

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Purchasing Or Perhaps Renting Decorations

Submitted by: Santiago Demery

When it comes to events the one thing that you are going to need to discover is decor of some kind. You will have two options when it comes to this though. You can either purchase the decor or you can rent it. This is a look at the advantages and disadvantages of both options.

Decor hire

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This is the option that’s most commonly utilized by event planners as well as event management companies who don’t have the funds to invest in their own decor. The benefit of hiring decor instead of purchasing it is that you are able to offer a much broader range of options to your clients. You don’t have to have 20 different sets of cutlery and crockery and table cloths with matching drapes. You can just hire what you need when it’s needed. The downside is that you are going to have to try to look for the kind of decor that you are searching for. This can sometimes be very difficult as your client might want to have some thing really particular that you may have to buy in any case. For more information on chair covers, go to http://www.classycandlehire.co.za

Buying deco

It can be difficult to find decor to hire for an event. This is particularly true if your client really wants to have some really specific kind of draping or lights or candle holders. You will likely be forced to purchase decor every once in awhile even though you run a rental model. This really is excellent as you will then have the ability to lease the items that you purchase to future customers if you wanted to, but you will need to find the original capital outlay for the purchase of the decor. This could get truly costly. Additionally, you will need to have a selection of options available for clients to select from if you decide that you’d rather own all of your decor instead of renting it as you really need it. Additionally, you will need to find room to store what is not being used. The advantage is that you will not have to try and source the actual decor that you need at sometimes short notice.

As you can see, there are a number of advantages and downsides to both of the choices that you are going to be faced with when it comes to sourcing decor for your events clients. You can purchase the actual decor and keep it on hand which will make it a lot easier to find what you are looking for but you’re going to need to find space to store what s not being used. If you decide that you need to hire all of your decor then you’ll have to make certain you’ve plenty of suppliers to contact when you need something, but at least you won’t need to pay for storage space and have to maintain the actual decor that you need when you are not utilizing it. Additionally, you will have a lot more variety to choose from. The choice is one that you may have to make yourself, just be sure to think carefully and make the correct one.

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Wikinews’ overview of the year 2008

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Also try the 2008 World News Quiz of the year.

What would you tell your grandchildren about 2008 if they asked you about it in, let’s say, 20 years’ time? If the answer to a quiz question was 2008, what would the question be? The year that markets collapsed, or perhaps the year that Obama became US president? Or the year Heath Ledger died?

Let’s take a look at some of the important stories of 2008. Links to the original Wikinews articles are in all the titles.

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NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet

Sunday, April 24, 2005

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced last Wednesday that it has agreed definitively to merge with Chicago-based Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and form a new publicly traded, for-profit company known as NYSE Group. This announcement was followed two days later by NASDAQ®, which independently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Instinet Group.

Archipelago and Instinet are innovative e-trading (electronic trading) companies, and formerly were the two largest American rivals to NYSE and NASDAQ, in recent years taking increasingly large portions of their market share. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulatory agencies still have to review and approve the transactions, particularly with respect to US securities law and antitrust law, in order to ensure that the marketplace remains lawful and competitive.

Other pending issues for NASDAQ include obtaining the approval of Instinet shareholders, as well as customary closing conditions. NYSE must obtain the approval of its members and Archipelago shareholders.

These changes, a reaction to increased e-trading competition and a changed regulatory environment, will result in NASDAQ and NYSE trading each other’s shares and attempting to grab market share, which many hope will drive down transaction costs and ultimately benefit consumers. However, at least one commentator, Dan Ackman writing in Forbes, has noted that the trading commission at the NYSE currently averages less than a nickel (US$0.05) per share, and was less enthusiastic about potential efficiency gains from electronic trading at the exchange.

The transactions are also intended to make the two leading American stock exchanges more globally competitive with such exchanges as the London Stock Exchange, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and the Australian Stock Exchange located in Sydney.

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