February 18, 1999
A List Apart: Surviving Large-Scale Projects.
Plan Early and Plan Often, Talk to Each Other and Establish Responsibilities and Procedures
NY Times: Proposal on Internet Names Favors Corporate Interests.
"There are no safe harbors. A person might register his own name, only to find that someone in another country who has a trademark on the same word believes he should be entitled to claim the domain."
NY Times: Junk E-Mail Filters Spawn a Suit Against Microsoft.
"Filters of all kinds will increasingly have a substantial impact on a company's ability to conduct e-commerce, and the [blocked] company will have a desire to assert legal claims in order to secure an unfettered ability to compete."
ClickZ: The Importance Of Being Honest.
But customers and prospects online demand a level of honesty and integrity that you just won't find anywhere else.
Salon: When canadidates spam.
The politician seems to have been extremely naive about the culture and interactive nature of the Internet.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of comments made by Michael Bloomberg at the Editor & Publisher conference.
Why the people who drop newspapers and adopt high-quality web access will probably be the same people that are power users that can currently afford Bloomberg's proprietory
service at $1,225 a month.
ZDNN: The electronic side of Sears.
But in the hard goods market, such stores as Sears have an advantage over the manufacturers in that they are prepared to deliver the service and support that the goods require.
News.Com: GoTo.com suing Disney's Go Network.
GoTo.com today filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles alleging that Disney and Infoseek's coproduced Go Network portal's logo too closely resembles its own.
Red Herring: Financial information doesn't want to be free, says Michael Bloomberg.
Q&A with Michael Bloomberg. I would rather go found a steel mill than an Internet company, because if I could figure out a way to make better steel, I'd have the market to myself.
Interactive Week: COPS Close To Standard Status.
...service providers will be able to create a multitiered pricing scheme, analogous to the priority-based pricing schemes of express delivery companies, such as Federal Express.
News.Com: Newspaper execs gather for Net education.
Report from the Editor & Publisher Interactive Newspapers conference in Atlanta, Georgia. [Michael Bloomberg] "Serious people" will always read newspapers, he added.
News.Com: Limits on domain speculators draw fire.
Most people will no longer have access to the root "zone" files, unless they sign a licensing agreement stating they will not use the files for speculation.
News.Com: USWeb looks to weave a success story.
Q&A with Robert Shaw, CEO of USWeb/CKS. I think the next set of firms that will be important to the world are services-oriented firms that are technology agnostic, that have the skills and abilities to mix and match the best technologies out there.
Wired News: Research Network Adds Turbo Leg.
[Vint Cerf] VBNS supports the exploration of advanced applications by the research and education community, some of which may one day become commonplace on the public Internet."
NY TimesSyndicate: Will Traditional Journalism Ever Be Marketable on the Web?
On-line ``consumers haven't yet shown that they're ready to pay widespread money ... for published editorial material...
Industry Standard: Dvorak on Lowly Web Columnists and Reporters.
The Blustery One reasons that they get lower pay even though some outfits have cashed in with IPOs (no firms mentioned by name), and that the overall product is shoddy and "minimally edited, if edited at all."
Boston Globe: Copyrights and wrongs.
Simson Garfinkel. When firms abandon products - and toss away the key - users are the losers.
Industry Standard: Study: Banners Match Impact of TV Spots.
The study focused on "ad recall," the portion of the audience that remembers seeing an ad after a single exposure.
News.Com: The customer is never right.
The problems began when I requested, heaven forbid, that my shipping address be changed after my order was placed.
USA Today: American sickout increased Web traffic.
"But it's also a double-edged sword. The (pilot protest) drove lots of consumers back to travel agents. They needed an intermediary, and those capabilities just aren't available on the Web."
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