February 8, 1999
MSDN Online: To Web, or Not.
Robert Hess. I'm going to describe several aspects of Web-based application deployment.
MSNBC: With a hiss, air seeps out of Net bubble.
Sinking shares of Lycos, Amazon, others tell the story.
NY Times: USA Networks and Lycos Said to Be in Merger Deal.
USA Networks and Lycos rumored to combine into USA Lycos Interactive Network.
NY Times: A Swedish Model for Sales: Hold the Content.
"Move away from content if you want to sell things."
ClickZ: Forrester Forum: Day 1 Preparing for Dynamic Trade in an Internet Economy.
And just what is dynamic trade? Simply put, it's doing business online in a customer-driven environment.
ClickZ: Measuring One-to-One Efforts.
"However, web sites will have to produce the evidence to justify the higher CPMs associated with online advertising..."
Wired News: ICANN Seeks Input on Net Rules.
The 30-page proposal touches on everything from maintaining a database of domain names to setting rules for new registrars.
Wired News: Euro-ISPs: Don't Outlaw Caching.
In the headlong rush to legislate what can and cannot be copied online, European ISPs worry that caching -- which is critical to network performance -- may be adversely affected.
Wired News: Buy.com's US$40,000 Typo.
"The courts are never going to allow people to cash in on someone's mistake..."
InfoWorld: Microsoft's Vizact blurs line between Word, HTML.
Vizact will also allow for text, images, and hot buttons to be wrapped and delivered within an e-mail, as well as for a time limit to be placed on how long the text and images can be viewed.
PC Week: Microsoft shows off microbrowser technology.
The simple interface will work with specially created, text-based Web sites.
Washington Post: By Selling Online, Manufacturers Bypass Retailers.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for wholesalers and manufacturers to decide whether they are the true merchants in the game -- if they want to take charge of selling the products directly to consumers..."
ZDNN: The dark side of the digital home.
"The wonderful convenience systems in our homes require lots of information about us. The question is where that information will be kept..."
Useit.Com: Spotlight of Amazon's practice of selling recommendations to readers.
Amazon's market capitalization dropped by $1.3 billion today. It costs to be exposed on the front page of The New York Times...
ZDNN: New Microsoft portal targets women.
http://womencentral.msn.com/ is MSN's new specialty portal for women.
FEED Magazine: Read Only Memoir.
...the technomemoir can be a useful forum for delving deeper into the psychological connection between humans and computers.
Wired News: The 'Dead' Grateful for MP3.
The surviving members of the Grateful Dead give a gift to their online following -- and get a call from the RIAA.
Spyglass Press Release: Spyglass Ships Prism 2.2 Internet Content Delivery Platform.
...the ability to format content in WML, the markup language used by WAP-enabled cell phones, has been added.
News.Com: Microsoft addresses W3C on patent issue.
Microsoft is calling a brewing patent controversy a tempest in a teapot. More surprisingly perhaps, so is Netscape.
TechWeb: Lotus Preps Non-Notes Collaboration Tool.
Lotus will show off a Web-based collaboration tool Monday that does not use Lotus Notes or Domino.
News.Com: IBM forays into digital music software.
"Artists demand that albums not be broken up so the hit songs remain bundled with the softer tracks..."
PC Week: Estee Lauder at the center of online trademark dispute.
Does Excite have the right to sell space on its site based on another company's trademark?
Wired News: Have I Got an E-Deal For You!
Online car dealers and automotive suppliers are advancing a standard that they say will improve online customer service and expediate dealer response to information requests.
ZDNN: Internet2 to go live.
The next-generation Internet2 will achieve a major milestone this month when developers flip the switch on a new high-speed backbone network.
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