March 9, 1999
ZDNN: Are banner ads' banner days over?
[Web ad blocking software] "The intention is to give users choice and control over their Internet experience."
Editor & Publisher: Comparison Pricing Belongs on News Sites.
Steve Outing. An increasingly popular solution to this problem is to craft e-commerce programs for news sites that allow a user to see multiple options for purchasing an item.
NY Times: A New Sony: The Walkman Goes Digital.
[Nobuyuki Idei, Sony's president] "In the last three years, we have made a lot of effort to move from being a 'box' company to becoming an information technology company..."
Salon: Amazon vs. the ants.
Scott Rosenberg. Sure, David can beat Goliath on the Web -- if he's got a New York Times columnist in his corner.
TechWeb: Activists Open Java To The Disabled.
If you've ever used a telephone volume control on a phone in a noisy airport -- or rolled your bicycle onto a sidewalk via a curbcut or taken a shopping cart up a ramp to the supermarket door -- you've taken advantage of accessible, or universal, design.
CBS MarketWatch: Commerce clash with news?
Credibility is an increasingly called into question throughout journalism, but Grabowicz says the "constant" deadlines of real-time online reporting increase the likelihood of errors.
ZDNN: Anonymous posting under attack.
"But people have to realize the Yahoo! financial boards are not the Wall Street Journal."
Builder.Com: Beta testing your Web site.
Sites that benefit the most from a formal process are those with complex architectures or diverse audiences.
News.Com: Inktomi revs up Shopping Engine.
...a back-end technology that provides customizable comparison shopping, product information, and transactions to Web sites.
Wired News: Building a Self-Actualized Web.
What's the best method for transforming the Web from a collection of electronic documents into a smart information-delivery service?
Industry Standard: IDC Predicts New Rules for Success on the Net.
Vendors will be asked to deliver 24-hour uptime, additional language and currency capabilities for electronic commerce, and to convert more visitors to buyers through the use of personalized, targeted offerings...
ZDNN: Secure music, off-key standards?
'Backwards compatibility would be good to have. Yet our approach [a portable standard as soon as possible] is the lesser of two evils.'
News.Com: Takeover target VLSI touts "Bluetooth".
Bluetooth radio technology is designed to link mobile phones, portable personal computers, and digital organizers.
Salon: How can they patent that?
In fact, they look as if any schmoe did "invent" them -- by taking some everyday occurrence and adding to it the phrase, "with a computer network."
Upside: Virtual Service Reps.
The most basic bots can respond to questions, ask follow-up questions, suggest products and Web sites, and provide other information via a text-to-text conversation from a Web site.
NY Times: KillingGoliath.com.
Whereas before he was doing at best $2,000 a month in business, since the story about him appeared on the Web he is now doing $2,000 a day from around the globe.
Wired News: Blue Barn: Playing Perfect Hosts.
One of a small group of companies focused exclusively on jump-starting and maintaining discussion zones on the Web for major clients...
Wired News: Cell Phone: The Next Generation.
The ITU is pressing to have worldwide mobile access available by next year.
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