February 21, 1999
MSNBC: A CompuServe for the millennium.
Although CompuServe 2000 — an all HTML format simplified for easy installation and use — is designed for non-tech savvy users, the targeted audience is adults.
Microsoft: Open eBook Initiative.
The goal of the specification is to quickly create a critical mass of compelling content.
Salon: Yay for Yahoo.
I guess I'll just have to content myself with calling Yahoo a great big honking huge mess of stuff, with pages that load quickly, displaying information that I want.
Salon: Boo for Yahoo.
A powerful and credible classification system for the Internet must be divorced from preferred providers -- heck, they never even should have dated.
NY Times: Microsoft Move Sparks Controversy Over Web Standards.
"Patents are good for rewarding innovation. But they can inhibit standardization. And the value that is created by standards accrues to everyone."
LA Times: A Clash of Cultures, Expectations at the Internet-Cable Frontier.
Perhaps the most serious is a cultural and philosophical gap dividing the two industries that must converge if @Home is to succeed.
SJ Mercury: E-commerce will stop as quickly as it started if the public feels security has been compromised.
So, as usual, it is people -- not technology -- who have the power to enable or inhibit the new levels of prosperity that the networked world offers.
ABCNews.Com: The Amazon.Commotion.
There’s something about the newness of the Net, and its insanely rapid pace of development, that makes relatively commonplace news seem wildly exciting or controversial.
ZDNN: Ballmer sounds alarm to MS managers.
...Microsoft's products are "too much hassle," with too many unwieldy features that aren't meeting customer needs.
Computer Shopper: Flat-Panel Sales Surprisingly Flat.
Now it might just be me, but I've seen few things that look as intrinsically silly as a sleek flat-panel display mounted on a standard AT form-factor computer.
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