March 19, 1999
Internet Technical Group: Banner Blindness, Human Cognition and Web Design.
Donald Norman. The fact that the searchers missed the supposedly salient information has nothing to do with big, colorful and salience: it has to do with schemas, frameworks, and expectations.
Red Herring: MaMaMedia builds out virtual playground.
"They are nonlinear, technologically fluent, and accustomed to controlling their media."
Industry Standard: Spin Magazine Dives Into Web's Crowded Waters.
"When we started with AOL, they were a lot smaller and they would actually pay us for syndicated editorial. They no longer need to do that, and the relationship didn't make sense to us anymore..."
W3C: Web Characterization: From working group to activity.
Web Characterization is concerned with looking at the overall patterns of Web structure and usage...
Industry Standard: That Thing You Do.
For lack of a better term, let's call this new form "aptent" – software applications to create and enhance content.
InfoWorld: Ask Jeeves expands into customer support.
"We create an open knowledge base of the information on a Web site. What we're trying to do is help integrate all of the investments that have been made on a company's Web site."
News.Com: BellSouth portal seeks to slash Net fees.
If the site proves financially successful, it could be BellSouth's first significant step toward using new revenue streams to drive down Internet access fees.
Business Week: How to Win the Portal Wars.
Q&A with George Bell CEO Excite. I would tell you that it doesn't seem to me to be strategic to own that content as long as you can license it.
SJ Mercury: Highly Interactive Ads Boost Click-Throughs.
Highly interactive ads on the Internet capture greater consumer attention than simple, animated banner advertisements, according to a study by Wired Digital.
NY Times: Bill on Protecting Databases Resurfaces in House
...how to protect databases from pirates without limiting access to information that has historically been part of the public domain.
Forbes: Web Wars: AP and Reuters.
By changing the model from a wholesale content provider to a visible content partner with key firms, the company entrenched itself as a major web presence...
Time Digital: E-Commerce Crashes the Party at 1999 Webby Awards.
...media sites need to aggressively build customer bases online and stop thinking of their audiences as aggregations of mainly anonymous users, who might just click on banners.
Wired News: MacWeek Returns to Print, Kinda.
"[With PDF] we're printing without the print or distribution costs."
XML.Com: XML Support in IE5.
Tim Bray. ...but the real value-add of XML in the browser isn't so much displaying it as processing it right there in the browser.
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