March 2, 1999
NY Times: A Growing Compatibility Issue in the Digital Age: Computers and Their Users' Privacy.
At the heart of the argument is a fundamental disagreement over the role of electronic anonymity in a democratic society.
ABCNews.Com: A Policy in Need of Review.
Fred Moody shares his experience with customer reviews on Amazon.
MSDN Online: Getting Ready for Internet Explorer 5.
A summary of things that developers might be interested in knowing with the upcoming release of IE5.
Industry Standard: Dell's New Online Chief Puts the Squeeze On.
"They've always handled the small stuff we didn't bother with, and now we're taking a chunk of that revenue away from them."
ZDNN: Yang: Yahoo! getting personal.
He dismissed the notion that Yahoo! is focused on "stickiness," or finding ways of keeping users on the site longer, so that they see more advertising.
ZDNN: Media debates role of Web.
[Richard Smith, chairman and editor-in-chief of Newsweek] When a sustainable business model does emerge, Smith predicted, it will have to include some form of online subscription revenues. "Giving away content is ridiculous," he said.
Freedom Forum: Merc Center: Making appointments with Web users.
Report from 1999 Freedom Forum Technology Conference for Educators with Patricia Sullivan from Mercury Center and Jai Singh
from CNET News.Com.
Wired News: Privacy Power to the People.
One of the goals we have here is to be a one-stop shop to empower consumers with control over how their information is being used on and off the Web..."
Upside: No Place Like @Home.
Q&A with @Home CEO, Tom Jermoluk. Now I [can] go into Excite's database and ask, "Who [are the Excite users] in Redwood City?" We tell [those users], "We're here." If they're already Excite [users], you know they can be [converted to] broadband [users].
News.Com: Study: Content still key for Web traffic.
Jupiter chief executive Gene DeRose noted today that editorial content is still the main way sites set themselves apart.
InfoWorld: Adobe targets Quark, unveils new publishing tools.
As a technology preview, Adobe showed its browser-based Web content management system, which is based on the previously announced, but never shipped GoLive Web Publishing System.
Wired News: ICANN Simmers in Singapore.
The creation of heaven and Earth came off with relative ease compared to what's being attempted in Singapore this week.
PC Magazine: More Windows 2001 Revelations.
John C. Dvorak. A look at another screenshot that claims to be the Entertainment Center for the Windows 2001 Neptune project.
Washington Post: Wall Street Journal Sets Daily Price On the Web.
The Wall Street Journal today begins selling a "daily edition" online for $1.95, becoming a guinea pig for a new transaction network on the World Wide Web.
Freedom Forum: World without walls.
Jon Katz. The citizens of the Net and the Web live in a world without walls, citizens of a new kind of social geography.
LA Times: Ad Blockers Challenge Web Pitchmen.
[Jakob Nielsen] He believes the declining click rate has driven advertisers to adopt ever-more-aggressive measures to capture attention.
Editor & Publisher: Banner Ad Avoidance.
In the short term, trick banners increase click-through rates. But in the long term, trick banners train readers to avoid interaction with online advertising.
Interactive Week: Online Ad Guidelines Published.
The standards-setting group that aspires to develop commonly accepted practices for the online advertising industry...
MacWeek: InDesign makes Seybold debut.
...when the standard is ratified this summer, Warnock said, Adobe will immediately release plug-ins that provide SVG [Scalable Vector Graphics] support for all its core graphics applications.
News.Com: Phone-based Web access spec proposed.
Creation of the VXML Forum which is working on a Voice Extensible Markup Language standard.
USA Today: The newsroom news revolution.
The most exciting change, the study says, is the enormous growth of original content on Web sites.
NY Times: Internet Sellers Work to Allay Fears of Retail Outlets.
Perhaps the biggest concern underlying this issue has to do with the still unanswerable question of whether the Web is actually expanding the size of the retail industry's pie...
NY Times: Amazon.com Site Tells Users of Book Promotion Payments.
...Barnesandnoble.com, has also just begun seeking co-op advertising dollars from book publishers.
DaveNet: Comparing Broadband and HTML.
We're still in development, working on a prototype, our goal is to build a much more interactive, customizable and participatory workspace in the web browser.
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