December 24, 1998
Today's Links Story: The Apple Store's Christmas Vacation
Boardwatch: New Standards for Content Management Needed.
John C. Dvorak. ...what needs to be done is the creation of a Dewey decimal or Library of Congress type library card system embedded into the page.
Harvard Business School Publishing: Surfing the World Wide Waste: Why Some Web Sites Work-And Others Don’t.
Q&A with David Siegel. Counting hits is ridiculous.
Industry Standard: IBM Trains for the Olympics.
IBM will be using limited real-time data mining on the 2000 Olympics website to analyze traffic
and place all the content within four clicks of the homepage.
Wired: Beyond Digital.
Nicholas Negroponte. Nicholas' last regularly scheduled column on the back page of Wired.
Useit.Com: Jakob spotlights the Apple Store closing for the holidays
until January 5th. A classic example of how a bad website can undermind a company and do active damage to its brand.
InfoWorld: IBM's Internet start-up: alphaWorks.
"We can also wed internal resources with the extended developer community." AlphaWorks' unique place inside IBM.
FEED Magazine: Beyond eBay.
Information needs to be transparent.
News.Com: Compaq to license digital cash technology.
Just a recap of an announcement from the end of November on the product trials for Compaq's
MilliCent technology (aquired from the acquisition of Digital earlier this year).
News.Com: Weighing the pros and cons of Net stocks.
If the opportunity is limited, it is not an Internet stock.
Wired News: No, the Check's Not in the Mail.
Banks look to new technologies to solve the rising costs in handling paper cheques.
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