February 23, 1999
Today's Links Story: From Colons to Angle Brackets
ClickZ: Silicon Alley '99: Day 1.
But in the case of Silicon Alley 99, the sponsorship aim is clashing with the editorial aim.
News.Com: Internet2 going live.
Although Internet2 and its backbones will not be immediately available to the public, the advantages of new technologies and bolstered data speeds are expected to trickle down to the global Internet.
PC World: A Smaller Alternative to JPEGs.
That's because the company's image format, Wavelet Image, or WI, squeezes an image into about three times less space than a JPEG...
InfoWorld: Start-up star warns entrenched companies to retool or be surpassed.
[Jack Hidary, CEO of EarthWeb] Established companies in the finance, publishing, and recording industries had better embrace new media and the Internet more enthusiastically or risk becoming takeover candidates in the not-too-distant future...
Internet Week: Despite Advances, Digital Assets Still Vulnerable to Content Pirates.
"No matter what scheme is deployed, someone's going to find a workaround."
Useit.Com: iCab: New Browser With Structural Navigation.
There is now a standardized way for users to get to higher levels of the information architecture and to pages that have specific relationships to the current page.
- MacWeek: New browser made in Germany.
The browser was created by a German programming team and is based on an earlier version for the Atari OS.
- Wired News: Germans Make Mac Micro Browser.
Microsoft spokeswoman Cheri Hurdstrom said she already has heard the iCab name "thrown around" among members of the Internet Explorer team.
News.Com: AOL's latest goal: ICQ everywhere.
"This is one more way for AOL to capture another piece of real estate for whatever occurs in the future..."
Fortune: You Can Trust Me On This--Really.
Stewart Alsop. In this new order, our old indicators of trust--editors, retailers, profits, even real people--don't seem quite as reliable.
Industry Standard: The Missing Link
Thousands of potential customers visit sites seeking product information. All too often, they fail to get answers.
DaveNet: Blue Mountain Arts.
Can we work out a win-win here?
Interactive Week: USWeb/CKS Unveils Services.
...portfolio of outsourced application services this week, aimed at companies that are looking to do business on the Web but don't want the headaches that go with it.
News.Com: Handhelds the focus at Mobile Insights.
...manufacturers are trying to expand both the breadth and capabilities of their product offerings to fill in every available niche.
Wired News: New Cell Phone 'Gets' the Web.
The company is the first to announce a phone that is compatible with the Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP.
Wired News: George Bell, Excited by the Web.
Excite CEO George Bell's keynote at Silicon Alley 99. "The loyalty is to content. People don't watch distribution..."
News.Com: Viacom makes major online push.
Buggles Project and Project Nozzle. [Viacom chief executive Sumner Redstone] "We decided to follow the same strategy that we have used on television--a vertical strategy..."
MacWeek: Apple's Sony emulation.
Building sexier boxes is one such new method, and so is leveraging high-end technologies such as FireWire into the consumer space.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of an Irish Time article about the long term view on the Web.
...I agree that many sites are reckless in causing linkrot for any author that tries to give them business by linking to them.
ChannelSeven: Your Website is Somebody Else's Experience.
But user expectations are rooted in user experience and thus vary inversely to improvements in the medium.
Industry Standard: New York Times, TheStreet.com Get Cozy.
...a dual role that raises precisely the kinds of potential conflicts of interest that are typical in the Internet business but have long been anathema to traditional news organizations like the Times.
Industry Standard: Viacom: I Want My Internet.
Viacom will also be announcing the creation of the "Super Music Network," a consolidation of the company's music holdings into a single entity...
USA Today: Online advertising is smarter.
The Net's ability to provide layers of product info at the click of a mouse appeals to our intelligence.
News.Com: Yahoo, Netcenter draw loyal customers.
The new study is part of an IDC/RelevantKnowledge Web Trends Report series. IDC presents metrics for determining the relative success of six popular portals.
MacWeek: Mac Internet Explorer 5.0 on course for summer.
...said the group wanted to work on the Mac browser's architecture, including its rendering and standards support, before releasing the new version.
Washington Post: AOL Abandons Marketing Plan.
AOL Select, said Weil, could have done more harm than good. "They are being pristine and pure as the driven snow..."
News.Com: WIPO domain proposals coming.
WIPO's December 23 interim report calls for all domain name buyers, at the time of registration, to agree to submit to arbitration if any party in the world challenges their ownership of a name.
Wired News: The Western Wireless Showdown.
Western Wireless sees a niche for its fixed wireless service in rural communities.
NY Times: E-Commerce Sites Look For Money Where the Mouths Are.
The bottom line, industry executives say, is that chats are a cheap, effective way to generate return trips, boost impulse buying and promote slow-moving merchandise.
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