February 26, 1999
NewMedia Magazine: The Great Value Shift.
In the Net Future it will be possible for core assets to become peripheral in what I call "the great value shift," leading to the commoditization of various products.
NewMedia Magazine: Net Ethics.
Welcome to the new Web. The fact is, big business is buying the Internet, and ethics are on the auction block along with everything else.
Web Techniques: For Every Light Bulb an IP Address?
My epiphany of understanding the real value of the Web as a communications link between devices is more tangible.
Web Techniques: Netscape's Gecko.
Netscape's Rick Gessner outlines the Next-Generation Layout Engine. At the heart of every Web browser beats a powerful layout engine.
W3C: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Working Draft. Following these guidelines will also make pages more useful to people using a broad range of devices (desktop browsers, voice browsers, mobile phones, automobile-based PC's, etc.) and to search engines.
InfoWorld: Microsoft creates a BackOffice bonanza.
"Tahoe is a future BackOffice technology that will provide document services, including enterprise searching and Web-accessible views..."
News.Com: Microsoft calms resellers' fears.
"I've had five conversations in the past week with major software companies that are getting very frustrated with the retail channel in terms of its ability to generate growth..."
Interactive Week: 'Next Big Thing' In Portals.
My Eureka! is a portal product, because it can aggregate information from many sources and present it in a context that's easily searched...
InfoWorld: Microsoft to mount multifaceted I-commerce offensive.
MSN Marketplace is intended to attract consumers to use the portal to sell wares in a type of "federation" of merchants.
News.Com: Free-PC claims 1 million applicants.
...the lucky 10,000 will be determined by the audience that Free-PC's first batch of advertisers are attempting to reach.
BBC News: Triumph of the teleworker.
Nick Shelness, CTO of Lotus. "If you are in an office and go to meetings, you can have a false sense of your contributions. If you write down, once a week, activities completed, in progress, on hold and travel plans, I find it incredibly useful."
Useit.Com: Spotlight of NY Times' coverage of the MS trial and the absense of UI experts.
Maybe the reason is that both parties are afraid of a thorough usability analysis of the case...
Industry Standard: N.Y. Times Reporters Walk Thin Ad/Edit Line.
And while the Times earlier this month was breaking the story about Amazon.com selling editorial spots, Brill's Content was questioning the Times' own mysterious best-seller list.
PC World: Online Stores Need an Overhaul.
More details from the Taylor & Associates e-commerce study. Lack of recognizable URLs is another barrier to greater consumer acceptance of online shopping, the study found.
TechWeb: Microsoft Preps IE 5.0 Launch, But Pulls Beta.
...pulled the previously available beta version of the browser from its site to comply with a court order.
Forbes: Paradigm change?
Q&A with retired Chairman Citicorp Walter Wriston and author Leon Levy. Do we have a New Economy?
NY Times: Lawmakers Renew Encryption Battle.
...renewed their encryption fight with the White House by refiling legislation to lift the Clinton Administration's export controls on the data scrambling technology.
Wired News: The Sound of Busic.
Some call him a visionary. Others say he's a spinmeister. Robertson has built his reputation in the music industry with a business based on the audio format MP3.
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