March 26, 1999
Industry Standard: Carl's Believe It or Not!
Carl Steadman. "I'd like to be your evangelist. Instead of selling products, you could be selling the dream."
Industry Standard: Data Deluge: Research Firms Release Slew of E-commerce Info.
So with studies on U.S. e-business becoming so plentiful, what's a research firm to do? Expand into international markets, of course.
InfoWorld: Relationship management unites on Web.
Mirani pointed out that one way to leverage Web sites is to use them for problem-solving, rather than as expensive call centers.
News.Com: Domain names are proprety, court rules.
In a court filing Network Solutions essentially argued that it leases domain names on a "conditional" basis, and therefore they can't really be owned by anyone--except NSI.
Photo.Net: Architecture and Implementation of Online Communities.
Philip Greenspun. My experiments have shown that a workable metric of the effectiveness and sustainability of a community site is the ratio of material authored by the publisher and material authored by site users (community members).
News.Com: Intel opens site to give Pentium advice.
Excite is launching a concept site that offers 3D Web search and navigation. "The Pentium III processor lets us shift more of the work of generating the interface to the user's desktop computer..."
TechWeb: Ethernet Guru Envisions Pay-Per-E-Mail.
For e-mail, something that has been relatively cheap to use, Metcalfe said predicts people will be willing to pay for electronic postage for better service.
Fortune: The Trouble With Web Advertising.
While paying people to view content is unorthodox, new-media companies are hell-bent for market share.
RCFoC: A New High-Tech Dog Food?
But as the technologies and social elements around Ecommerce bloom (such as widely-used digital certificates, common micropayment techniques, fatter pipes to allow for a richer shopping experience, better 'bots,' higher-resolution displays, etc.), I suspect that many a paper catalog will follow the venerable Sears tomb into pulp-oblivion.
News.Com: WSJ's Real problem with online news.
At the risk of turning this into one of those increasingly common and dreary "media on media on media" columns, could the problem here be that the Chronicle's new media column didn't quote its sources accurately...
MSNBC: Time Warner heads down several paths.
...Time Warner is developing what it described as "vertical portals," sites that will "drill down" to specific consumer interests...
News.Com: Browser interface development made easy?
...drafted the Extensible User Interface Language (XUL), which would let developers create a browser's user interface using common Web development languages.
Red Herring: You're not a community site?
Community sites are now trying to shrug off the negative connotations of the community title -- or get rid of the name altogether.
NY Times: On the Web, It's Buyer Beware. But Where?
What is an American consumer to do if he believes he was ripped off by a foreign Web site?
News.Com: How the Internet empowers.
Ubiquitous access to fast two-way communication will forever transform the way our society works.
A List Apart: Using Flash and DHTML for Good, Not Evil.
However, as with HTML, Web builders can also misuse these technologies to build sites that end up being less user friendly.
Wired News: MIT to Unwire the World
The aim is to give the area's doctors, teachers, and farmers centers equipped with IP connectivity.
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