February 4, 1999
Salon: Reach for the hits.
Scott Rosenberg. In the beginning was the hit. And the hit was with the server, and the hit was ... whatever you wanted it to be.
A List Apart: Brand That Site!
The line between sublime and so-so sites is often a matter of branding.
Web Review: Microsoft Awarded Style Sheet Patent.
Includes comments from Thomas Reardon, the director of standards for Microsoft.
Web Review: Who Owns the Patent to Style Sheets?
Web Standards Project Press Release. [Tim Bray] "I'm confident that Microsoft will do the right thing and simply ignore the existence of this patent."
Web Review: XML: Text & Context.
...the way XML effects the way developers view document structures in a bottom-up environment.
NY Times: A Regretful Tone in Judge's Decision on Internet Pornography.
He said he had "personal regret" that his injunction might delay once again the protection of children.
ClickZ: Prescriptions For An E-Commerce Hangover.
Some of the e-commerce lessons learned from Christmas '98.
Upside: The Net According to Tim Draper.
Q&A with Tim Draper the managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
The new search engines, the future of Hotmail and other interesting trends.
Industry Standard: NBC Mulls Deal With Lycos.
The deal would give NBC a substantial equity stake in Lycos - probably 35 percent...
Wired News: MS Wins Patent for Web Standard.
Microsoft says it will allow broad and open licensing of the stylesheets technology.
Industry Standard: Retailers Want Customer Communications.
Key Measures of Online Retail Success in a KPMG survey.
Industry Standard: Some Kind of Community.
Such a feat would necessitate tying together the publishing platform of GeoCities with forums for interaction that are easier to use and more flexible than any forums now on the Web.
Industry Standard: Carl Has Left the Building.
Carl Steadman. Where's Carl?
Wired News: ETrade Users Aghast at Service.
...saying the company's focus will continue to be on electronic support features, such as chat and email.
Freedom Forum: Online, not all sex is XXX.
Jon Katz. Sex is one of our last great taboos.
San Francisco Chronicle: Print Your Own Stamps.
``It's all about convenience and avoiding paying for pricey postage meters...''
News.Com: Mozilla comes of age.
"One of the things that kind of bothers me is that it's been a year now and we haven't had a baby yet."
Web Standards Project: Opera's Top 10 CSS Problems.
This is the second of a series of WSP standards-compliance reviews.
TechWeb: Lab Probes Effects Of Virtual-Reality Exposure.
Prolonged exposure to virtual reality can temporarily rewire the brain's perceptual systems...
ClickZ: Sidestepping Disintermediation.
What happens to the distribution chain in a wired world?
MSNBC: Wall Street gets hot on community.
...The more you know about your members, the more you can charge advertisers."
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