February 11, 1999
Smart Reseller: Don't count out MSN.com.
Microsoft told MTB attendees to expect the company's forthcoming knowledge-management server products to incorporate a portal which will function as a "knowledge desktop..."
Online Journalism Review: What Do You Tell the Boss?
This moonlighting has created a new set of procedural questions for newspapers and their ambitious staffers: Are standard freelance guidelines adequate to cover Web sites?
RCFoC: A Stitch In Time...
On the new versions of WindowsCE: Color goes a long way towards increasing readability and usability, and in this day of color notebooks I must admit to an initial less-than-positive reaction when I see a dim monochrome screen.
NY Times: Lawsuits Challenge Search Engines' Practice of 'Selling' Trademarks.
"I would estimate that 20 to 30 percent of a portal's ad revenues" are generated from such targeted banner ads...
NY Times: Yahoo Offers to Expedite Its Site Reviews, for a Fee.
"They find themselves in a very strong position and they believe they can command these fees, and they probably will be able to. It just seems a bit disingenuous because these are the same kinds of sites that helped to build Yahoo."
Editor & Publisher: At Work, But Not In the Office.
He's a poster boy for the type of work relationship that can be accomplished in the new media world, applying the latest digital communications technology.
A List Apart: Directories: Bread Crumb Trails Across the Web.
I say we as the "masses" ought rise up and just say no to inept search engines.
Sonnetech Press Release: Collaborative Effort to Improve E-Color; Industry Leaders Gather to Address Color Accuracy on the Web.
Support and evangelize the implementation of consistent Internet colors from source to screen.
News.Com: W3C aims to streamline vector graphics.
We've been discussing how to create a new specification that has all the right features, significantly improves the state of graphics on the Web, and can be finished and implemented sooner rather than later..."
InfoWorld: Microsoft pulls together a knowledge management strategy.
Tahoe would apparently become a knowledge repository for integration with Microsoft's MSN.com portal technology so that developers could create their own enterprise information portals...
MIT Sloan School: Digital Time Capsule.
Sloan students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends worldwide filled the capsule with digitized representations, drawn from the Internet, of the people, places, products, events, trends and news shaping business and the Internet in early 1999.
PC Week: Internet Challenges Game Publishers.
They suggest the solution may be to build several revenue streams and target charge different audiences different prices.
Computerworld: Demo: Microsoft unveils Vizact 2000.
For example, a static Word document can be quickly reformatted to include text that expands and collapses by clicking a bullet.
Freedom Forum: Rethinking those '40s values.
Jon Katz. Pre-tech journalism had its flaws, but it had a healthier respect for privacy.
USA Today: Playboy files suits against Web sites.
Playboy filed federal lawsuits against portal sites Excite and Netscape, saying that the sites were abusing Playboy's trademark in the way they deliver search results.
Business Week: The Next Net Craze: Wireless Access.
It won't be here tomorrow. But recent deals mean it's being developed.
Wired News: Third Dimension for the Web.
On Wednesday, the group began defining Extensible 3-D, or X3D, a spec for building three-dimensional content into Web sites.
W3C: Scalable Vector Graphics Working Draft.
From the Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group at the W3C. SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML.
DaveNet: Syndication in XML.
As it turns out we were ahead of the curve, but now we're right on the edge.
Washington Post: A New Market for Middlemen.
Q&A with John Hagel III author of Net Worth. ...Hagel says the chaos on the Internet is a breeding ground for "infomediaries," automated consumer advocates that with our permission will take control of our personal World Wide Web profiles and bargain on our behalf with online merchants.
Business Week: Making All the Right Postmerger Moves.
Now in its eighth acquisition, Razorfish provides a how-to guide.
Red Herring: LookSmart looks to MSN.
"Our mission is to build the best collection of content on the planet," says LookSmart CEO Evan Thornley. "We'll follow any reasonable model to do so."
News.Com: Beware the "dot com" temptation.
However, there's just one problem: in three out of five cases, the companies preparing these spin-offs today are, in my opinion, spinning off their futures.
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