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Washington Post columnist Leslie Walker writes about the latest trends in technology, from Web search to digital photgraphy.
I was all ears when a man named Tony Conrad sat down next to me at a recent dinner party and introduced himself as the founder of a new blog search engine called Sphere.
There's something about Jobster that intrigues Internet investors.
Digital photos have been frozen in a picture-book metaphor on the Web for so long that it's refreshing to see a new crop of sites developing the picture further.
Who is most closely associated with each innovation?
Mention the Segway, and you're more likely to recognize the famous people who have ridden it than the man who invented it.
In a sense, the questions on Page D1 are trick questions. The way technology develops makes it hard to give credit to a single person for innovations that may build on the work of many who came before. Also, techies love to fight over fine points. Following are explanations of how some of these people came to be especially associated with particular advances:
To see who will create the Internet newscast of the future, look into a mirror.
LAS VEGAS EBay's big buying binge was the talk of its fifth annual user convention here this week, which pulled 15,000 sellers from around the world eager to learn what the Internet auction giant plans to do next.
Ladies, beware of men buying drinks in bars -- they may be retired drug dealers trying to recruit you into their life of cybercrime, specifically identity-theft rings.
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