March 13, 1999
SJ Mercury: A Virtual Industry Gets Real.
"What are you going to wear to the Webbies?"
ABCNews.Com: Web Goes Graphic.
Excitextreme offers a new graphical interface that presents all its information on a single screen, using relative space to organize data.
Upside: Walk in the PARC.
Review of Michael Hiltzik's new book Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age.
MacWeek: Gecko to lead Netscape charge.
...Netscape said Navigator 5 is scheduled for a beta release by July and commercial Mac and Windows versions by year-end.
TechWeb: Microsoft Passport Piques Privacy Concerns.
...Passport acts as a digital repository for a consumer's data such as credit card and shipping information and some forms of online cash.
Wired News: Net Journalists Outwit Censors.
...journalists are now able to use the Net to ensure their work reaches as wide an audience as possible.
NY Times: On the Internet, Bigger Is Better.
Letters to the Editor replying to Thomas L. Friedman's KillingGoliath.com column.
- Salon: From March 9, 1999; 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.
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