March 5, 1999
News.Com: Yahoo maps its future.
"Yahoo is also cautiously pursuing opportunities for subscription fees and paid premium services..."
Red Herring: Getty gets e-commerce.
Mark Getty says his visual content company, Getty Images, is pursuing a business model it decided on in the beginning; it's called e-commerce.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of WSJ's possible return to the Web, beyond a subscription wall.
More than a year ago the Wall St. Journal decided to withdraw from the Web and put their content behind a subscription wall. In the long term (5-10 years), not being a fully integrated member of the Web will seriously erode their brand as people prefer to link to other online sources and as mainstream search engines (Excite's NewsTracker, etc.) feed readers to everybody else.
Internet Week: QoS Gets A Little Better Definition.
A series of emerging Internet standards promises to give Web businesses better control over the service they give to their best customers.
TechWeb: Privacy Czar Warns Regulation Is Still Possible.
The White House's newly appointed privacy czar warned that government regulation is still a possibility to protect the privacy of Internet users.
FEED Magazine: Getting What You Pay For.
Clay Shirky. 1999 will be remembered as the year in which this shift from computer as product to computer as service began.
Industry Standard: What Happens When All of Journalism is Wired?
But what about the rest of the journalistic world - the scribes and muckrakers not covering the Internet revolution, but merely benefiting from it?
Forbes: Microsoft vs. RealNetworks.
[Howard Tullman, chairman and CEO of Tunes.com] "Real has got to wake up and accept that it's just a pipe. They can't compete with us."
Editor & Publisher: A Local Vertical Portal Strategy.
Steve Outing. ...locally dominant news organizations are in the best position to take advantage of the vertical portal opportunity.
News.Com: Content sites adopting commerce practices.
[Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang] "The Web has become so much more action-oriented, in large part because our users have scaled up in savviness and sophistication."
Upside: Webwide Applications.
The PC with a browser has become the new NC.
News.Com: Creative's new tune: Portable MP3.
Creative Technology to unveil their new line of MP3 players this weekend at a conference.
Wired News: Cable Modems Going Retail.
Observers feel the move from proprietary to compatible devices should increase competition and result in lower prices.
InfoWorld: CeBit 99 focus will be on handhelds, Net connectivity.
A preview of CeBit 99 in Hanover, Germany that is being held on March 18 to 24.
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