March 22, 1999
Red Herring: Things go better with cash.
The three-year-old company helps sports and entertainment Web sites create copyrighted interactive multimedia features...
Salon: From Agenda to Zoot.
Scott Rosenberg. Readers also shared with me a vast range of thoughts, tips and suggestions on how they keep their lives and ideas organized with the software currently available.
News.Com: Yahoo, Broadcast.com eye strategic fit.
"Content drives viewership, and Broadcast.com has a lot of content, and I think any portal company that is looking to attract a lot of traffic to the site would love to partner with Broadcast.com..."
ZDNN: Deja News will add calendaring feature.
Deja News has licensed eCal Corp.'s Internet calendaring engine for its community site...
InfoWorld: Network Solutions draws criticism for consolidated Web site.
Simmons also wondered why basic functions such as a domain name lookup were not re-mapped to the relevant page on the new site, rather than merely to the new home page.
Industry Standard: Mysteries of Springfield Project Revealed.
...Beebe is outlining plans for a company that will "enable small businesses to become e-businesses."
Wired News: Microsoft Off Truste's Hook.
...Microsoft's controversial Windows data-collection practices compromise consumer trust but that they do not violate the company's license agreement with Truste.
Industry Standard: Network Solutions Hijacks the InterNIC.
The rerouting of the Web site for the domain name registry service InterNIC by Network Solutions Inc. over the weekend has potential competitors up in arms...
InfoWorld: Printers to get their own Web addresses.
"Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL..."
Industry Standard: Monitoring the Monitor.
WebSide Story aggregates those figures – and lots of other data – gathered by its HitBOX Tracker traffic tool...
Useit.Com: Spotlight of Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature conference.
...we need to find new forms of expression for interactive text.
Salon: Coming soon to computer games -- advertising.
Conducent, a 3-year-old start-up, has announced that its technology will soon enable advertising within the play of any kind of computer game.
Internet World: Web Sites Explore Faster, Cheaper Way To Retrieve Data.
...the developers of high-performance Web sites may soon be paying a lot more attention to main-memory databases.
LA Times: Firm Has Designs on E-Commerce.
Forsaking millions of dollars in cash fees, Organic instead has taken stakes or potential stakes in five companies...
LA Times: The 'World' in World Wide Web Becomes More Visible.
With improved browsers, better translation technology and a growing body of foreign content, surfing offshore keeps getting easier and more rewarding.
SF Examiner: By mining their Web sites for data, Net businesses are refining their demographic profiles.
As the Web's content broadens, visitors and shoppers will cease to browse aimlessly and instead gravitate toward sites that deliver products and services customized to their needs.
NY Times: Affiliate Referrals Generate Big Profits.
...1999 may be the Year of the Affiliate, as Web merchants realize that one way to balance the books is to recruit other sites to help sell their goods.
NY Times: Novell to Offer Data-Privacy Technology for Internet.
Novell hopes the technology, called Digital Me, will gain acceptance as a standard means of controlling identity on the World Wide Web...
Industry Standard: Nielsen Rates the Web.
The alliance combines Nielsen's leadership position in the ratings business with new measurement software and reporting technology from NetRatings.
Wired News: Fast Talk on Fast Wireless.
In the past week, just about every cell-phone manufacturer has unveiled a master plan for breaking into the wireless Internet business.
NY Times: From the New Media Back to the Old.
It's not really a Web or Net book. It's a book that happens to stem from a Web site."
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