February 27, 1999
Editor & Publisher: Get Ready to Sell Innovative, Unique Content Online.
Steve Outing. We're likely in the coming years to see more paid content become available online, because it's finally getting easier for consumers to purchase content online.
Wired: Terminal Velocity.
Internally, both the company and the man have trouble thinking beyond the box: New sales, Open Bloomberg or classic, are still referred to as "terminals."
Upside: PCs Wane (Again).
[Arthur Patterson, founding partner Accel Partners] ...reminded the audience that a television is nothing more than a thin client, and with the right connectivity, TV can be pretty interesting, too.
Online Journalism Review: The Early-Bird Media Critic: Scott Shuger of "Today's Papers".
Q&A with Slate's Scott Shuger. But Shuger does more than summarize the papers' offerings; he takes first crack at the major forces in the newspaper industry.
Project Cool: The Connected Community: from Me to Thee.
Jack Driscoll, Editor-in-Residence at the MIT Media Lab. The next wave of community computing is likely to revolve around narrowly defined interests.
ZDNN: Startup joins personalized players.
Responsys.com joins a flock of companies banking on the Web hosting model, which allows small- and mid-sized businesses access to the same heavy duty applications that larger companies use.
Red Herring: Startups get on the list
...building a critical mass of subscribers to email lists, and building direct marketing engines targeting those subscribers.
Wired News: Layoffs Threaten VRML's Future.
But with the prospects for VRML and the 3-D market hazier than ever, some think it will be more of the same for a technology that has had a slow, scattered, and mishmash evolution.
Wired News: 3-D Images, Without the Glasses.
...the inventors have achieved a simple, low-cost device that creates a very convincing illusion of volume and depth.
InfoWorld: IBM furthers its e-business strategy.
...IBM next month is expected to unveil an online catalog tool for such tasks as content personalization, customer relationship management, and Web-based catalog information maintenance.
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