February 16, 1999
Salon: The war for Wired.
A joint project between TheStreet.Com and Salon. A long-simmering dispute among Wired Ventures shareholders is close to boiling over into the courts and could imperil the company's acquisition by Lycos...
NY Times: Digital Copyright Agreement for Video.
The new technology is also expected to be used to protect video distributed electronically via digital broadcasts and networks.
Upside: Big, Bad Middleman.
Since sellers can lose a customer with just one click, the customer's needs will shape the Internet into vertical markets...
Freedom Forum: The end of the Microsoft Age.
Jon Katz. Microsoft wasn't just a company but a culture, the embodiment of the future itself.
News.Com: eBay cuts live support.
The immediacy and convenience of Internet commerce may have also inflated consumer expectations about service.
News.Com: A markup language for talking browsers?
...SpeechML will let Web authors write content for speech-enabled browsers using simple markup tags.
TheStreet.Com: E-Commerce Affiliate Programs: Building Brand, Losing Money.
"But that is the strategy: Spend a lot of money to get new customers..."
Wired News: EFF Appoints New Director.
Tara Lemmey. Tara is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the issues that EFF has always held as basic tenets, from free speech to privacy to IP..."
News.Com: Acrobat flexes new muscles.
Acrobat 4.0 now supports digital signatures enabling users to authenticate and safeguard information...
News.Com: Net privacy protection measures proposed.
Web sites could be forced to disclose their personal data collection practices under regulations being formulated by Sen. Conrad Burns...
Adweek: Analysis: In Web Sites We Trust?
As e-commerce grows, so does concern about privacy.
Adweek: Media.com Seal To Promote Rich Media.
The program calls for online publishers to display the seal on their sites to inform advertisers that they are willing to accept multimedia ad forms.
Interactive Week: Adobe Announces Acrobat 4.0.
...capable of capturing Web sites into formatted PDF files.
ZDNN: Compaq acquires Zip2
[Rod Schrock, AltaVista CEO] "We've got overall search and navigation, e-commerce and local content. Now the challenge is to integrate the three together..."
Time Digital: Free Fax Numbers from 'New' Net Company.
The bet, begun last summer with some market research, is on a sort of fax version of popular e-mail services such as HotMail.
Editor & Publisher: PR Profits From Online Revolution.
"The research time has gone down to less than a day; it used to be a week..."
TechWeb: European Ruling Could Outlaw Web Caching.
Web-access costs could rise by an average of 67 percent in Europe if an attempt by the European Parliament to outlaw Web caching is successful.
ICANN: ICANN Startup Fund.
...support the initial operating expenses of the corporation until a permanent funding mechanism has been selected and funds are received.
TechWeb: E-Mail, Browser Clients Are Rage At Demo '99.
"We didn't want to have to put another application in front of users for Web services. If we did that, they'd kill me."
ZDNN: Newspapers ain't dead yet.
Will the Internet kill newspapers anytime soon?
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