March 8, 1999
Useit.Com: Spotlight of an interesting advertising campaign from OnSale.
OnSale's television ad draws data from their website with five products currently on auction displayed.
NY Times: New Models Rein In Cost of Internet Access.
"In Europe, generalized free ISP services are closer to reality than free phone calls..."
ZDNN: 'Always-on' will drive broadband.
[David Peterschmidt, CEO of Inktomi] ...the value-adds will be video and audio services, content filtering and "transformation." (The last refers to repackaging content from one network to another -- for example, making Web content viewable on a mobile phone.)
PC Magazine: More Win2001 Revealed!
John C. Dvorak. Screenshot of the Windows 2001 Communication Center.
News.Com: E-cash comeback on the way?
A Japanese firm has licensed Compaq's MilliCent form of digital cash for a full-scale roll-out of electronic cash in Japan later this year...
ZDNN: RealNetworks to play MP3.
The market perception had been that Real sidestepped the MP3 issue to avoid a conflict with the music industry...
Industry Standard: Forbes Plays Both Sides of Ad-Edit Blur.
...the media has declared the online blurring of editorial and advertising as the hot-button topic du jour.
Wired News: How to Make MP3 Pay.
Report from the New York Music Internet & Expo. But with all this MP3 attention, no one is sure how unknown artists will make money online.
PC Week: Order? What order?
If a site is well-organized, easy to surf, and includes a mechanism to get questions answered quickly or check order status, that's half the battle.
Interactive Week: WebTV To Play Host To Home Networking.
...plan to release a combined system that will let users network any device that plugs into an electrical outlet...
News.Com: Microsoft to invest in Net music firm.
Microsoft will announce today a $15 million equity investment in Reciprocal, which develops technologies for delivering music and other media content via the Internet...
NY Times: Internet Retailers Work to Turn Shoppers Into Buyers.
"We're still in the early phase of e-commerce adoption, so a lot of people just get into the process and panic..."
NY Times: Internet Concern Plans System for Small Online Transactions.
[Micropayment systems] ...are expected to be the means for completing 8 of every 10 online transactions -- though only about 25 percent of the total revenue -- by the year 2002.
Washington Post: Tales From the Crypto, Without an End in Sight.
Now we're into a new round of the fight -- and I've lost count of how many rounds came before.
Washington Post: The Architect Who Lands Airports.
"It takes the worst elements of shopping malls and places it into a very complex technological building. The emphasis on retail in airports has gone way beyond the reasonable."
Industry Standard: The Online Bookstore That Makes Money.
Powell's has carved out a lucrative niche for itself in secondhand fare.
Wired News: Who's Taking Privacy's Pulse?
A Web survey expected to influence the course of federal privacy laws was tailored and funded by industry groups that have battled such legislation for years.
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