February 14, 1999
NY Times: Ticketmaster and Microsoft Settle Linking Dispute.
...Microsoft agreed not to link from its Sidewalk city guides to pages deep within the Ticketmaster site. Instead, the guides will point visitors interested in purchasing tickets to the ticketing service's home page.
NY Times: 'Holy War' Over the Future of Wireless.
But that process is being threatened by a general reluctance to compromise on arcane technical standards and in particular by intransigence on the part of Ericsson of Sweden and Qualcomm Inc., of San Diego...
NY Times: Slate Ends Its 10-Month Experiment With Subscriptions.
"People see their personal computers as a utility device, and they're going to pay for information that leads them toward a task, or that helps them with a purchasing decision," he said. "So consumers don't have a natural proclivity to pay for content on line."
ZDNN: Now showing on the Net near you.
"Some central server could multicast the content out across the network ... then at the edges of the network, caches would be able to accept that multicast stream... and just serve it up on demand..."
MSNBC: AOL says, ‘You’ve got coupons’.
Rappaport sees the "absolutely growing" popularity of coupons as part of an even larger trend of "incentive based web surfing" in the form of affinity programs some Web publishers are creating to reward users for spending time at their sites.
NY Post: Slate Chalks Subscriber Fees Up To Experience.
But the online zine suffers because it could have been building its brand and traffic.
InfoWorld: Jonathan B. Postel wins '98 Internet Plumber of the Year award posthumously.
ICANN, do as Jon would have done. Keep open, act wisely, and get the job done.
Seattle Times: `Rules for Revolutionaries' offers curt, sage advice.
Review of Guy Kawasaki's book. One of the joys of Kawasaki's approach is that his aphorisms are open to a variety of interpretations.
Seattle Times: Wireless in Wyoming: Lusk, darling of Microsoft, isn't quite 'wired' yet.
High-speed fiber-optic and coaxial cable girds the town. But it stops at the end of a 100-foot coil sitting - unconnected - in an alley behind the U.S. West switching station.
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