March 18, 1999
RCFoC: "HTTP-Colon-Slash-Slash-Dot" -- Not!
Imagine a day when we've forgotten the phrases "URL" and "HTTP," but where we simply type (or speak) what we're looking for and it appears.
ClickZ: Why Bad Web Sites Happen To Good CEOs.
CEOs who like their web sites aren't in a hurry to move on to something else once the site is uploaded and live.
A List Apart: Them Changes: Maintaining Sanity When Clients Change Spec.
However you choose to manage change, you need to build a process that your client can agree to and participate in.
Editor & Publisher: Getting Golfers to 'Stick' to Your Site.
Steve Outing. ...Golfserv's concept is to license the technology to local publishers and topical Web sites, creating a national network of local and niche golf sites supported by national and local advertising.
Builder.Com: IE 5.0 improves on earlier releases but complicates Web builders' lives.
Innovation is fine, but it must come on top of--and not as a replacement for-standards compliance.
Editor & Publisher: With Microsoft's Backing, Reciprocal Moves Forward.
The company creates digital rights management solutions for content providers, with a current focus on the publishing and music industries.
Interactive Week: Slate Sees Success With New Strategy.
Although Slate initiated the change only in mid-February, traffic for the month increased 32 percent.
TechWeb: Turning Surfers Into Customers Is No Small Beenz.
The scheme is similar to collecting Air Miles, except it will enable shoppers to buy products at any website that uses Beenz.
News.Com: The Internet Infrastructure Gap.
...the underlying need for an improved Internet infrastructure, especially for new services that enhance Web surfing and online commerce.
Upside: The Webbies: Hollow Statues.
The Internet has a way of mocking those that purport to understand (or overtly adorn) it.
News.Com: Taxpayers reluctant to file over Web.
Consumers are becoming more comfortable with electronic filing, but "they are still hesitant to rely on the Web for such an important transaction...
Adweek: Content's Comeback.
...it looks as though the Internet will come full circle, to the medium's beginnings as a place to publish content about the niche of one's desire.
Wired News: Motorola: Fighting Back Online.
...it would make its digital phones compliant with the new technology standard Wireless Application Protocol...
MSNBC: Getty Images goes digital.
"We knew that digitization would completely alter our business model, irrespective of whether customers ever bought images digitally..."
ClickZ: A New Kind of Customer Service.
With database marketing, the marketer can capture information about how the visitor is using the web site, then use that data to structure and refine future information flow.
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