March 16, 1999
ClickZ: Seek And You Shall Find... Eventually.
But the fact remains that dealing with the search engines is probably the last great arcane annoyance of web marketing.
ZDNN: Content is back -- and indies are thriving.
The Web has erased the cost and distribution barriers between smaller content producers and their potential audiences, and now increasing advertiser interest means even small publishers can turn their readership into dollars.
NY Times: Taking Web as a Given, Museums Go After Net Audience.
Among the conference's most widely discussed sites were those designed to attract virtual visitors by emphasizing the Internet's social elements...
Wired News: The Case of the Pilfered Filter.
A word filter available to users of the new ICQ99 chat software appears to be an illegal duplication of a controversial list that was part of Cybersitter 2.12...
ZDNN: Catching up with the creators of the Palm.
"Why put 16MB of memory in [a handheld] when it only drains the battery and people don't need it?''
Wired News: Truste's Test: Going After MS.
One of the big questions is whether they have the will to impose some kind of sanction.... Will they stand up and show they're prepared to do something here?"
News.Com: ICANN suggests body to lead domain debate.
The DNSO will be a "consensus-based policy advisory body within ICANN" and will include a General Assembly made up of Net users or individuals who want to contribute.
InfoWorld: HP works to make the Internet more automatic for users.
...a new global strategy here called Internet Chapter 2, with the hopes of leading a transformation of the Internet into a "do it for me" network.
SF Examiner: Pundits predict dire future for Internet.
[Doug Rushkoff] But, he contended, the opaque technologies of Web browsers soon made the Internet a broadcast medium, controlled by businesses looking to focus their advertising messages.
Freedom Forum: Internet primeval: Creators' writings still guide us.
Jon Katz. Licklider wrote — almost with awe — that the programmed digital computer could change the nature and value of communication...
Interactive Week: MSNBC On The Internet Goes Local.
...launching a Web-based video service that will provide access to video news programming from 10 of NBC's largest affiliates.
Industry Standard: Paul Allen's $750 Million Goes to Go2Net.
Like AtHome's relationship with Excite, Allen's cable ventures will use Go2Net as an entry point for consumers who use his cable-Web service.
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