March 4, 1999
Online Journalism Review: The Corrector: Slipup.com.
"It's a medium in gestation and there aren't accepted standards for many journalism issues online..."
Industry Standard: Bricks, Mortar and Ivy Size Up the Web.
University presses are particularly afflicted by the classic e-commerce problem: channel conflict.
Salon: Personal information mismanagement.
Scott Rosenberg. What I need is a product that can store, sort, retrieve and organize all the myriad bits of data that course through my typical day...
News.Com: Microsoft navigates perilous waters.
Microsoft's ambitious e-commerce master plan, unveiled today, knits together its software, online services, company stores, and media properties.
PC Week: Amazon.com founder spells out 'customer-centric' mission.
Q&A with Jeff Bezos. If Amazon has 6.2 million customers, there should be 6.2 million highly customized stores. It's a myth that there is an average customer.
PC Magazine: Digital Paper.
DataGlyphs are designed for encoding computer-readable data onto paper documents.
Industry Standard: Sidewalk Goes Shopping.
Sidewalk, originally conceived as a community information site, recently relaunched with more of a focus on e-commerce.
Wired News: ICANN's Success in Singapore.
The board adopted a domain-name registrar accreditation policy listing the requirements for establishing new domain-name registrars in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains.
TechWeb: U.K. Government Re-Examines Escrow Policy.
The British government appears to have backed down on plans to impose key escrow on encryption users.
News.Com: Microsoft unveils new e-commerce strategy
Microsoft has acquired CompareNet, a San Francisco company that provides product databases and comparison shopping information on its Web site.
MIT Technology Review: Wavelength Division Multiplexing.
WDM takes this advantage a giant step further—multiplying the potential capacity of each fiber by filling it with not just one but many wavelengths of light, each capable of carrying a separate signal.
News.Com: Yahoo, PageNet to customize wireless service.
Yahoo users nationwide will have wireless access to personalized content through their PageNet pagers and wireless devices.
ClickZ: Where the Eyeballs Are '99.
...today there is growing marketing, economic, and technological momentum to support a growing prominence of online content syndication.
Washington Post: The Media Gets a Message.
Because one of hardest lessons for traditional companies to learn about new media is that it is fundamentally more about other people's content than their own.
San Francisco Chronicle: Cnet Tiptoes Into E-Commerce, But Can It Avoid Amazonian Mistakes?
``As a media company, we've been, from day one, very aware of . . . what the church and state line is..."
MSNBC: AvantGo’s software soups up palm, CE handheld devices.
"What these new devices give people is mobile access to the wealth of information and services available on the Web..."
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