March 24, 1999
Washington Post: Amway Discovers the Web.
The plan is to link to stores elsewhere on the Web, yet have a unified "checkout."
Industry Standard: Talk.com Isn't Cheap.
"We know generally that with a name like Talk, not just on the Web but in the world at large, it is a nightmare to have such a common word as your title..."
W3C: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Proposed Recommendation.
The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility. However, following them will also make Web content more available to all users, whatever user agent they are using...
Salon: Bringing mailing lists to the masses.
But even though the ads may be "targeted," not everyone is excited about the idea of turning their e-mail-based communities into marketing venues.
ZDNN: E-commerce in The Third World?
[Nicholas Negroponte] "They leapfrogged over a whole level of technology because the previous system was so terrible..."
PC Week: Negroponte offers unconventional take on life in the Digital Age.
Seven years ago his colleagues chuckled when he predicted there would be 1 billion people on the Internet in the year 2000, Negroponte said, but that number is well within reach today.
Information Week: Principled Interfaces.
User interfaces can learn to create themselves, but only if we reorganize the apps they depict.
Industry Standard: Analyst Insight: The Net Ad Industry Needs a Single Language.
Did Site X get 1 million visits during the month? Ten million visits? Or was that 50 million pageviews?
News.Com: Finding a path for Time Warner?
A successful Web strategy has eluded Time Warner; the media giant suffered a great deal of criticism for its unwieldy Pathfinder site.
InfoWorld: Half of Visa's disputes, fraud result from I-commerce.
[Mark Cullimore, director of emerging technology at Visa] "It is all down to the problem of authentication, which has become the most important issue in the financial industry."
Brill's Content: Community vs. Commerce.
Limiting a site to internal links may deter exit but inevitably leads to disappointment. No store can stock everything. No business can satisfy its customers' every need.
Forbes: Rentware on the Internet.
...they had no idea that their little experiment offering business tools over the Internet was going to become a vortex for the latest fad: applications that run over the web.
Wired News: Your Data, Your Choice.
[Danny Weitzner, a domain leader at the W3C] "I think [digitalme] is good news and it's going to give P3P a boost. I don't think we have to worry about leaving P3P behind here."
PC Magazine: Your Printer's Internet Address.
...is pushing a new Internet protocol designed to let Internet users send files and messages directly to a remote printer.
Forbes: The technology that won't die.
...worldwide fax transmission minutes grew to 395 billion last year from 255 billion in 1995, and will leap to 647 billion by 2002.
Interactive Week: Open Text Puts Knowledge To Use.
[Tom Jenkin, CEO of OpenText] "In many ways, the knowledge management market is not unlike the database market of 10 years ago. It was a market that was very niche-oriented."
Fortune: The E-Consultants.
They used to be those geeks who designed your Web pages. Now they're "Web strategists" running $100 million consulting firms.
Wired News: MP3 Search Engine Under Fire.
The global recording industry opened fire Wednesday on Internet music piracy, launching proceedings against a Norwegian partner of US search engine Lycos.
Wired News: RIAA Sets the Record Straight.
Q&A with Hilary Rosen, CEO of RIAA. The only value in attracting eyeballs is in advertising. You do the artist a disservice that way. Consumers don't want to buy a car, they want to buy the music.
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