February 12, 1999
Site Note: As you can see, I've recently on feedback removed the use of
italics to indicate quotes from articles. Instead, I'll use more selective
hilighting of words and phrases.
And with that change will also bring some changes to the layout
of this main page as it has moved beyond the scope of the type of linking I was
doing when Today's Links started.
PC World: Internet2 Project Poised for Launch.
But the network will provide a testing ground for technologies that are expected to trickle into the global, public Internet, including IP multicasting, enhanced security applications, and Quality of Service...
Industry Standard: The Next Kaypro?
They'll be the survivors, the theory goes, because they were the first in.
Red Herring: Rafe Needleman, Editor of RedHerring.Com, in his Catch of the Day sidebar talks about the chasm between editorial and advertising.
"Tell your customers when their clicks for content generate direct revenue for you. The public deserves to know where its news is coming from."
ZDNN: Microsoft mulls alternative to Java.
"Everyone has a different idea about what Cool is. Some people are saying Cool will be based on the technology Microsoft acquired from Colusa [Software Inc.] a few years ago. [Colusa was] building a run-time language like Visual Basic"
Industry Standard: The Littlest Murdoch.
James Murdoch looks to build News Corp's presence on the Web.
Wired News: Slate: Free Again.
[Slate Editor Michael Kinsley] "It's painful to think of turning away so many Slate readers from so much of our content."
Salon: Slate rejoins the Web.
...Slate was doomed to be Microsoft's guinea pig in the company's effort to test online business models...
MSNBC: Hi-tech rivals search
for ‘sticky’ Web sites.
[Jeff Mallett, Yahoo President] By keeping users rattling around in Yahoo-owned sites, he figures, Yahoo will generate more usage, "which pings our business model," particularly in strengthening Yahoo’s ability to sell ads.
Time Digital: Can Teeth Magazine Save the Web?
Now the Web’s in a sad state -- these portals just want to keep you on their site, and as a result you get a very slanted view of things.
Slate: Slate Goes Free.
Michael Kinsley. In a nutshell, it now looks as if it's going to be easier to sell ads but harder to sell subscriptions than we thought a year ago.
MSNBC: Slate backs off subscription plan.
Moore said the switch made sense, since Web ad sales are surging, and online subscription services — except for sites selling financial services or pornography — are not.
FEED Magazine: Bubatech: The Future Of Web-Link Technology?
Steven Johnson. ...we've also seen successful, link-driven sites that are targeted at narrow, professional niches: sites like Slashdot and Macintouch where the links are the articles, even though they rely on a human editorial filter building the connections.
NewMedia Magazine: Mike Braun Interviewed.
Q&A with Mike Braun general manager of IBM's consumer division.
Web Review: Are Butt Hinges for Unhinged Patent Investigators?
The U.S. Patent Office has figured out that it has a license to print money.
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