February 24, 1999
NY Times: Sony to Propose a Method for Protecting Digital Music.
"This is a marvelous reflection of everything that is good about the Internet, and the world is voting with its keyboards..."
News.Com: Media Metrix to go public.
Media Metrix, a market researcher that measures the audience for Internet sites, filed for a $48.3 million initial stock offering...
ZDNN: All the (online) world's an auction.
Report from Silicon Alley 99. ...suggested that online shoppers could soon find retail prices changing constantly as demand for products rises and falls.
Industry Standard: Compaq's E-commerce Conundrum.
"The channel is in a state of chaos right now – no one knows who are their partners, friends or enemies..."
Upside: Gagging on @Home.
Sure, TCI owns nearly 40 percent of @Home, but why should it be allowed to compel people to receive online content?
Red Herring: Our gov is here to stay.
Even the Internet will require rules, and enforcing rules requires some kind of authority. Existing governments will be happy to perform that role.
ZDNN: Intel won't back down on chip ID feature.
[Paul Otellini, executive VP Intel] "The people who are willing to give up their privacy for a free PC are our market..."
InfoWorld: IBM's HotMedia aids multimedia Web development.
Java multimedia development tool developed at IBM's research labs
Industry Standard: Giving Web Data the Hairy Eyeball.
Virtually every Web company churns out monthly press releases about the percentage of the Web audience it reaches.
Useit.Com: Rebuttal: Not Known That Study Bias is Worse For Online.
Rebuttal from Senior VP at of IPSOS-ASI Interactive addressing a recent Alertbox that referenced an IPSOS-ASI study.
Columbia Journalism Review: We're All Nerds Now.
Computer-assisted reporting, he continues, allows reporters to dig into this "overabundance of information to find what's relevant.
Industry Standard: Net Marketing: Diversification Drives Growth in Spending.
Forrester Research reports that the rise of focused, niche-market directories will drive online directory revenues to over $1.1 billion by 2003.
Wired News: MIT: E-Commerce Just Beginning.
[Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab and Firefly] "If you really look at the way we do e-commerce today, I think it's actually not really a revolution in the way we transact goods and services..."
Smart Reseller: Microsoft Says Ready, Set, Shop.
...with consumers who prefer to buy software and hardware directly from Microsoft paying retail prices of 10 to 20 percent more.
Editor & Publisher: More News Site E-commerce Plays — But Not Enough.
Steve Outing. E-commerce-enabled advertising is what will drive Internet revenues in the coming years.
W3C Press Release: W3C Issues Recommendation for Resource Description Framework (RDF).
Introduces model for defining and organizing information.
ZDNN: Cost of Internet ads gives way to the forces of supply, demand.
Advertisers says they are demanding lower prices partly because it is tough to measure the online ads’ effectiveness.
Wired News: The Dawn of the Infomediary.
Like the handful of other infomediaries launching in the next few weeks, Lumeria aims to give consumers total control over their personal information...
Wired News: The Internet of the Future.
...the Internet2 project was established in 1996 as a test bed for the new networking gears and wires that will eventually be integrated into today's Internet.
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