March 23, 1999
Wired News: The Buzz from the Desert.
...Washington Post chair Katherine Graham shared her deepest fears about news on the Internet. Online news degrades the authority, accuracy, and standards of traditional newspapers...
PC World: IE5: Branded for Life?
With users' portal loyalty low, according to experts, it's a shame that you can't easily switch from, say, a Yahoo browser to a Snap browser.
News.Com: Digital appliances in Apple's future, Ellison says.
"Right now I use an NEC flat panel, and I see what's coming from Apple," and it is impressive."
ZDNN: Local Internet services struggling.
"They're banking on the promises of online marketing, that you can go one-on-one with users and be familiar with their previous purchasing habits."
Salon: The King of Computer Labs.
Review of Michael Hiltzik's new book Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age.
MacWeek: Untangling the Web.
...the fact that the Web is both overwhelming and free makes it very hard for it to support anything beyond the latest news, as reported in snappy 200-word stories.
InfoWorld: Gartner Group mulls end user computing devices.
Making all those devices work together and share data is one key to their future success.
TechWeb: Ask Jeeves Licenses Search Technology For E-Biz.
"Ask Jeeves is probably going to be most relevant in a universe where questions are somewhat definable, and perhaps limited in scope..."
News.Com: Dell delves into affiliate marketing.
"An affiliate program has a better rate of return for marketing investment dollars than most others..."
USA Today: 'It's the customer, stupid!'.
Though electronically disembodied, transactions across the Internet are nevertheless between people. Any company that disregards that fundamental fact will crash and burn in cyberspace...
Freedom Forum: 'Dare to know' — Enlightenment 2.0.
Jon Katz. All around the Net, there's a growing sense that something historic, even extraordinary, is occurring.
SJ Mercury: Cable-Internet issue is vital, but not utmost.
Dan Gillmor. How our society decides the cable-Internet issue matters a great deal. But the divergence between the information rich and poor should be just as important.
ClickZ: A Different Animal.
This is another attempt to apply traditional media measures to a new medium that can't be measured by traditional metrics.
ClickZ: The Magic Of Marketing Automation.
So in addition to web site personalization, you have the ability to create email campaigns, track web leads, integrate direct mail and fulfill collateral requests, and so on.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of a Media Metrix Web traffic estimates for sites between 1996 and 1999.
These traffic estimates are good supporting evidence for my argument that Internet stock is over-valued because future users are likely to prefer other sites than the currently popular ones.
Upside: Tax the Net!
No state sales tax. No Internet access tax. A moratorium on all new taxes for at least three years. This is the privileged paradise of e-commerce.
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