March 29, 1999
Salon: Why Bill Gates still doesn't get the Net.
Scott Rosenberg. Review of Bill Gates' new book. The closest "Business @ the Speed of Thought" comes to breaking a sweat is when Gates describes Microsoft's Herculean effort to turn its business in the direction of the Internet.
Builder.Com: You Have No Privacy. Have a Nice Web Life.
Dan Shafer. The belief in Web land is that commercial Web sites that don't catch on to the real value in snooping on their users' behavior patterns will find themselves considerably behind the curve in an increasingly competitive environment.
Business 2.0: What Works Now: 100 Ideas You Can Take to the Bank.
Common themes developed quickly. Consider this list an amalgam of working ideas, gut instincts, and proven successes. What works now on the Internet in 1999.
ZDNN: A killer app for consumer relations?
RemarQ Communities Inc., which now integrates message boards and Usenet discussion groups into customers' sites, sees customer relations as a major part of its future.
News.Com: Sapient scoops up consulting firm.
...Sapient beefed up its Web-based offerings today, scooping up San Francisco-based consulting firm Adjacency...
TechWeb: New Tool Simulates Web Surfers.
The tool, called SiteProfile, offers an advantage over human focus groups by providing consistent numeric measurements of usability...
Industry Standard: Amazon.com Makes a Bid for the Auction Market.
But unlike other online auctioneers, Amazon.com will offer its shoppers a "guarantee" against fraud by sellers.
SJ Mercury: Q&A: On technology in the classroom.
Q&A with Larry Tesler, co-founder of Stagecast Software. ...Stagecast Creator is an extremely easy way for teachers to build visual simulations to complement their lessons.
News.Com: WIPO readies domain report amid criticism.
...critics say under WIPO's proposal there are no safe harbors for someone who has registered a domain name for personal use...
Wired News: Amazon on the Move.
Until it bought into drugstore.com, Amazon saved every pixel of ad space on its Web site to promote its own book, CD, and video businesses.
Computer Shopper: Adobe's New View.
According to Adobe, if e-commerce is to be successful, it is essential that consumers have the ability to easily access, view, and print the high-quality content that accurately represents the products and services they are interested in buying.
Internet World: Early Web Graphics Format May Yet Have Its Day.
Broad adoption may be yet to come: "It took JPEGs four years to get there; it took GIF just as long..."
Industry Standard: The Networked News.
If there's a threat to journalistic excellence today, it has to do not with technology but with business models.
ZDNN: Instant islands in the Net.
The world of instant messaging looks, at the moment, like Hawaii: a number of islands, some larger than others, but none directly accessible from the others, and each with its own character.
NewMedia Magazine: It's Not About You.
It's time for companies to rethink their Web site strategy (presuming they even have one). They need to focus more on their customers and the needs and desires of those customers.
Interactive Week: The Net: Software's New 'Platform'.
...are hitching their futures to the notion that online connections can emerge as a viable vehicle for distributing an increasingly broad array of software applications.
SF Chronicle: Consulting firm shows clients the future.
``Our business bridges that gap between what technology can do and what business needs to have done..."
Interactive Week: A Tale Of Two One-Click Initiatives.
...no one technology provider has been successful at creating a standard wallet or payment mechanism to allow consumers to shop with a single click across retail sites.
LA Times: NSI, U.S. Near Pact on Domain Names Controversy.
[Esther Dyson, ICANN interim Chairwoman] "We're challenging Network Solutions' interpretation that they own the [InterNIC] registry..."
Adweek: Analysis: Measurement's Tangled Web.
Industry observers can now only hope the hype doesn't turn into another energy-depleting rivalry.
NY Times: Internet Companies Reinvent Math.
"No profit for the foreseeable future" is now a boilerplate disclaimer in the prospectus of an Internet company preparing an initial stock offering.
Interactive Week: MSN Moves Past The PC.
Microsoft's online arm has launched development work to deliver versions of the MSN.com Web service on alternate devices, including cellular phones, pagers, handheld computers and Microsoft's WebTV platform...
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