February 28, 1999
Advertising Age: Agencies centralize Web ad serving.
...interactive agencies are turning to outsiders possessing technological muscle or centralized in-house staffs to serve their ads.
NY Times: Expert to Help Devise Format for Delivering Music on Internet.
Leonardo Chiariglione selected on Friday to head the Secure Digital Music Initiative group.
NY Times: Web Publications Break Away From Print.
The number of articles written exclusively for Web sites of newspapers and magazines is growing, according to a study to be released Tuesday...
NY Times: Exploiting -- and Protecting -- Personal Information.
If consumers can get money for their personal information and still control it, "they'll be much more willing to provide it."
ZDNet Anchordesk: Yahoo Schmahoo! Why Corporate America Is Disowning Consumer Portals.
Jesse Berst. Enterprise portals provide a personalized home base for one company's employees.
Online Insider: Barnes and Noble: Scrambling.
Change the URL to something else. Barnesandnoble.com is too long and too confusing...
Computer Reseller News: Microsoft 'Mega Server' Aims To Draw Traffic To Portal.
[Bill Gates' comments in a 1998 memo] He said Microsoft planned to use Mega Server to provide extensive business and consumer services over the Internet and described Mega Server as powerful software to store and manage customer data that could be accessed from nearly any computer.
- ZDNN: From October 13, 1998; Gates outlines era ahead -- including a 'Wintone'.
But Gates said that for the megaserver idea to become a reality, engineers need to improve the ability to search for data, and the company needs to continue encouraging a bigger, faster pipeline for information...
Computer Reseller News: Microsoft Tries To Breath E-Commerce Life Into MSN.
...CRN has learned that Microsoft sought out advice from privacy experts on the personalization feature.
CIO Web Business: The Wordlier Wider Web.
"The only problem is, by the time [Internet connectivity] has evened out, something else will come along."
CIO Web Business: The Perfect Host.
Paradoxically, however, relatively few companies are willing to surrender control of Web hosting.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of the return of Byte as an online-only publication on March 1.
And the value of their comprehensive archive of articles since 1994.
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