March 3, 1999
NY Times: Whales in the Minnesota River?
But on the Web, the clues for credibility are different, and so are the tools needed to assess the information.
Red Herring: Adobe fights Quark in print.
"Why would we compete with companies that already do that well?" asked Adobe president Chuck Geschke. "Our strategy is to provide tools that integrate [with e-commerce software]."
RCFoC: Been There, Done That.
And it's a great testament to the "leveraging power" of a standardized device like the PC -- a "meta-invention" that spawns an incredible amount of innovation, and a vast market which in-turn drives more people to buy PCs...
Salon: Amway joins the online multilevel marketing melee.
The irony of Amway's announcement is that it took the company this long to figure out that it belonged online.
Webmonkey: Sneak Peek at SVG.
An introduction to the Scalable Vector Graphics working draft from the W3C.
ZDNN: Affiliate programs greasing e-business.
[Bo Peabody, CEO of Tripod and Angelfire] "The Web doesn't want to be centralized," Peabody said. "It provides the individual with the commerce link."
TechWeb: Online-Content Renaissance Under Way.
...software libraries with music and rich content similar to what exists today on CD-ROMS, as well as productivity software like Quicken will drive customer usage.
News.Com: PC makers warned of handheld attack.
"Products equal revenue, but services equal profits," Stephens said, calling Internet services "the new battle ground."
ZDNN: Startup measuring the Web.
Service Metrics has 15 servers in the United States and overseas, which constantly take measurements of Internet performance.
TechWeb: Companies Take Divergent Paths To E-Commerce Success.
Is there a single correct way to create an e-commerce system?
News.Com: Caching caught in copyright debate.
But since caching means copying, it is increasingly falling under the shadow of copyright law.
Wired News: Music Industry Plans DVD Audio.
"If there were no protection, the music companies would not put it on, so we've put a series of parameters included on the disc for copy control and copy permissions."
Wired News: Clinton Tabs Privacy Point Man.
Swire has been one of the most prominent authors on the tension between privacy self-regulation and government regulation of businesses.
High Five: Making good.
Q&A with Mark Hurst president of Creative Good. My goal is always to keep in mind the constant frustrations of the average online user.
TechWeb: Regulatory Hurdles Hinder ADSL Deployment.
Telecom analysts told the forum regulators should move to provide competitors with timely access to local carriers' copper twisted-pair infrastructure.
Industry Standard: ICANN Considers Compromise.
A key part of DNSO – and the most hotly argued element – are the "constituencies" of interested parties who would be granted voting rights in the Names Council on DNSO issues.
Editor & Publisher: Solution to Portal Envy: Go Vertical.
Steve Outing. Linking to other Web sites has traditionally been viewed by news publishers as against their best interests.
Wired News: Yahoo: Gettin' Sticky with It.
[Jerry Yang] "Personal publishing represents the next big paradigm shift on the Web..."
ComputerWorld: Web sites need to think about midlevel users.
David Siegel speaking at the Direct Marketing Association's Net.marketing conference. "Intermediates are where the loyalty is."
Salon: Molotovs and mailing lists.
The dynamics and natural life cycle of mailing lists. The best barrier against such attacks -- having a human moderate the list -- is often the first casualty.
Wired News: Net Advertising: Who's Looking?
The FAST proposal gets around the undercounting problem by asking the industry to uniformly adopt software that will keep track of individual viewers on cached sites.
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