February 9, 1999
ClickZ: Forrester Forum: Day 2. Preparing for Dynamic Trade in an Internet Economy.
The vision for the doing business online has to come from the CEO, not the VP of IT.
ZDNN: Lycos-USA: No e-commerce home run.
Observers say merged company faces serious competition, branding issues.
Salon: Blurred lines in Times' Amazon story.
...the Times might have seen fit to mention its own complex interest in the rivalry between Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. Barnesandnoble.com happens to be the "exclusive bookseller" for the Times' Web site...
W3C Acknowledged Submission: Personalized Information Description Language.
NEC. The purpose of PIDL is to facilitate personalization of online information by providing enhanced interoperability between personalization applications.
Fairfax IT: Fighting the good fight.
Q&A with Phil Zimmermann.
USA Today: Amazon.com offers refunds on books.
Internet bookseller Amazon.com offered refunds Tuesday for all books it has recommended...
Amazon.Com: We stand behind our recommendations. They're not for sale. Jeff Bezos.
ZDNN: Report shows advertising innovation.
Online advertising brought in $490.7 million for the third quarter of 1998...
TechWeb: Dell Will Expand Wares For Online Business.
[Michael Dell] "You'll see Dell leveraging that interaction to sell peripherals, software, and accessories..."
News.Com: Amazon backs off promo plan.
The company says it will disclose when a publisher had paid for a featured spot on its Web site.
News.Com: Nike to sell direct on Net.
Selected products from its Alpha Project line.
Marketing Computers: MSN Takes Aim at AOL, Again.
The tagline: "The new MSN.com. All you need to get stuff done."
SJ Mercury: 2 new products will reach out to not-yet-PC masses.
Dan Gillmor. Dan reports from Demo '99 with a look at Qubit and Free-PC.com.
ZDNN: Big names claim spotlight at Demo '99.
Microsoft Vizact, Lotus Quickplace and other products at Demo '99 examined.
NY Times: Requirements for Internet Registrars Announced.
Monetary requirements are likely to raise a firestorm of protests from smaller Internet interests, who fear ICANN is being driven by large corporate interests.
Industry Standard: Online Trading.
Credit Suisse First Boston survey. Credit Suisse attributes much of this growth to investors' unsated appetite for Net stocks.
MSNBC: Lycos announces deal struck with USA’s Home Shopping Network.
It's official: USA Networks and Lycos join to form USA/Lycos Interactive Networks.
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