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A dialog box or window that must be responded to before operation of a program can continue. Modal dialog boxes are easier to program than modeless dialog boxes since you don't have to account for as many conditions. However, modal dialog boxes are generally annoying to users, and should be used only when user input is absolutely required before program operation continues. Overuse of modal dialog boxes will elicit groan
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Modal dialog - By Joanna GlasnerSocial-networking websites -- which provide a forum for meetingfriends of friends and professional colleagues -- have proven thisyear that they can be wildly popular.Now venture capitalists are increasingly convinced that such sites canserve another function: making money.In a rare show of confidence in an emerging and still-unprofitableInternet business model, three of Silicon Valley's most storiedventure capital firms recently invested in two of the fastest-growingonline sites, Friendster and LinkedIn.LinkedIn, a networking site targeting professionals, announced thisweek that it received $4.7 million in an initial round of venturefinancing led by Sequoia Capital, a onetime backer of Yahoo, Googleand PayPal.Three weeks earlier, Friendster announced that it received $13 millionin a venture-financing round led by two other well-known SiliconValley VC firms, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and BenchmarkCapital.Meanwhile, a third networking site, Tribe.net, is also in talks withventure-funding sources, after receiving initial backing from twomedia firms, Washington Post Co. and Knight Ridder Digital.The sums being funneled into these social-networking startups aren'tvast in comparison to the amounts venture capitalists routinely pouredinto Net firms in the late 1990s. Nonetheless, entrepreneurs say theinfusions are encouraging, particularly considering VCs' recentreluctance to put money into consumer-oriented Internet businesses.The draw of social networking, the startups say, is that a littleinvestment could go a long way.http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61227,00.html
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