March 1, 1999
Welcome to Internet World readers. Thanks for visiting! Lawrence (tomalak@tr.pair.com).
Internet World: Deconstructing Blowout.
Internet World's design and usability experts talk about their favorite sites in a Blowout.
Jakob Nielsen selected Tomalak's Realm as his favorite site.
Thanks Jakob!
News.Com: Net execs discuss profit growth strategies.
"Eventually customers will realize, 'I can go to barnesandnoble.com directly,' and the portals will be cut out of that revenue loop..."
Internet World: Microsoft's Portal Play.
...Tevlin suggested that the same integration that made Office successful as a desktop suite would make MSN successful as an online suite.
Freedom Forum: New-media forecasts, content, values scrutinized.
Report from 1999 Freedom Forum Technology Conference for Educators.
Freedom Forum: Jon Katz: We still need journalism online.
"Interactivity is the most radical political idea on the Internet because what it does is change the relationship between vendor and consumer of information..."
Red Herring: Stay tuned for broadband on TV.
[NCI CEO Mitchell Kertzmann] "What looks like a thin client today could be the first step to a home server..."
Adweek: CNet Revamps Site and Channels.
"The old names were cool," explained senior vice president Matthew Barzun, "but it wasn't necessarily that clear to someone where they should look for information."
News.Com: Free email comes at a price.
"The ability to generate ad revenue in email is limited just the way it is with chat and other communications tools where users are interested in utility, in getting something done, and are less apt to click on ads."
ZDNN: Web-TV integration remotely possible.
Report from Jupiter Consumer Online Forum. [Tom Jermoluk, CEO of @Home] Essentially, anything that requires more work than a remote control won't cut it...
InfoWorld: Handheld ISVs offer new connectivity standard.
The initiative hopes to enlist application developers with products in the handheld space to specify MAL as a standard architecture for accessing corporate and consumer data from mobile devices.
Wired News: Microsoft Won't Block e-Cards.
"All the PhDs designing filters are no match for a clever spammer."
Industry Standard: Why E-commerce Forecasters Don’t Get It "Right".
"Time and again, when press or clients ask about the differences [between the forecasts], it is because we are measuring different things..."
News.Com: @Home chief: Access prices will fall.
...executive Tom Jermoluk said he expects access prices for online services trending "towards zero" as advertising and other content more fully cover the costs.
Industry Standard: Interactive Advertising Practices Its Straight Face.
Advertisers, researchers and the people who love them both have been pouring out of the woodwork for the past month to bolster the credibility of interactive marketing.
Ask Tog: Maximizing Human Performance.
Basic principles and techniques for ensuring your customers enjoy the greatest possible user-efficiency from your designs.
Web Page Design for Designers: Conceptualisation.
Joe Gillespie. ...the creative thinking process and what to do about that blank page.
Interactive Week: Is It Do Or Die In '99 For ADSL?
Maybe it's the Integrated Services Digital Network disaster still lingering in the air.
News.Com: Study: Net population to double by 2005.
The number of people using the Internet worldwide will double to 300 million by 2005...
Wired News: The Customer Is Always Right.
It also connected the site to the same database that GTE customer service reps use in-house, giving users access to the same information.
Adweek: When Everything Old Is...
Publishers who now offer only dirt-world versions of printed texts, he believes, will soon have to contend with such present-day realities as searchable databases and, ultimately, futuristic formats that build from the technology Octavo's publishing is based on.
Adweek: Survey: @Home Study Lays Down Broadband Mat.
Another study from IPSOS-ASI sponsored by Intel and @Home on the "brand recall" of rich-media advertising.
News.Com: Top tech firms to link home devices to Web.
The OSG would establish a common framework for these emerging standards for home networks, not supplant them.
Microsoft Press Release: Millennium Promises to Revolutionize Computing As We Know It.
In addition to the previously announced Universal Plug and Play initiative.
Industry Standard: Inktomi Finds That Cache Beats Search.
Over the past two years, Inktomi has focused on its network-caching business.
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