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Technical excellence?[edit]

This section sounds like someone tooting their own horn. If no citation is forthcoming I'm going to delete it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ledelste (talk • contribs) 11:02, 17 November 2007

No one knows that that section was "Technical Excellence?" it is removed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Netsql (talk • contribs) 01:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

URL No Longer Works[edit]

The link in "PointCast.com today" seems to go to a domain that has been acquired by another concern. 68.143.188.113 (talk) 21:16, 11 December 2008 (UTC)DPVF[reply]

It's Dead, Jim![edit]

Pointcast.com is just a glorified spamdex page now, to link to Families.com, eRomance.com, FreeCoupons.com and SnugglePie.com. Oh how the mighty have fallen, and snuggled.

Irony: It was a "screen saver"... remember that screen savers were things originally meant to SAVE YOUR SCREEN, namely keep your pre-1990ish monitor from burn-in. Saving power later became a consideration. But, [wrote, in FOLDOC], in 1997:

Along the way, avoiding repetitive patterns and burn-in was completely forgotten and "screen savers" such as Pointcast were developed, which make no claim to save your monitor, but are simply bloated browsers for push media which self-start after the machine has been inactive for a few minutes.

(Now screen-saving is complicated, since monitors are complicated: Screensaver.)

Omni-ennui. -- Sean M. Burke (talk) 10:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]