March 31, 1999
Today's Links Story: User Experience: Going once, twice, sold!
NY Times: Memory Takes New Shape.
...Sony Electronics, Iomega and International Business Machines, are trying to provide just that. They have developed new forms of mini-storage memory and are jumping into the market...
Washington Post: Losing Sleep in a Mattress War.
Barragan, as you might expect, is not happy that his Washington franchisee is going nose to nose against the Dial-a-Mattress operation that launched him.
Editor & Publisher: AP's Web Content Restrictions; User Review Caveats.
Steve Outing. Online editors at news Web sites who handle AP copy have begun noticing more content labeled "online out" — or similar wording — indicating that the content is not to be used on Web sites.
Industry Standard: Yahoo-Broadcast.com Deal Puts Spotlight on Content.
...Yahoo tomorrow is expected to announce that it will purchase Dallas-based Net company Broadcast.com in an all stock deal valued at $5.7 billion.
Wired News: Are You Who You Say You Are?
The group concluded that "knowing who you are really dealing with online" is a major barrier to growth in the current epicenter in the Internet gold rush, e-commerce.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of a Nielsen Media Research on the click through rate for web advertising.
Getting down to 0.15% as early as February is almost too good to believe in terms of vindicating my statements since 1997 that advertising doesn't work on the Web.
MSNBC: Can eBay stand the heat of Amazon?
...eBay has been working on making its site navigation easier and forging deals with what vice president of business development Steve Westly calls "vertical" or special interest sites.
TechWeb: The Net Continues To Transform Business Models.
"Technology is not how you differentiate yourself by and large. It's how close you are to your customer."
Computer Reseller News: Microsoft To Add Wireless Links To MSN.
...creating an Internet service called MSN Mobile that will deliver Web content to a variety of wireless devices...
News.Com: The customer is never right, Part Deux.
This month's tale of two shopping ventures is even more basic: one online, the other off. Which was worse?
NY Times: Netscape Throws Open Party After a Year of Open Source.
Vidur Apparao, one of Netscape's programmers, said he is happy with the widespread involvement of outsiders because it makes it easier for Netscape to build industry-wide standards...
Ask Tog: Maximum Security.
Security people must work with people trained and talented in human factors to see that real security—and even privacy—are achieved.
News.Com: Will media giants bulldoze communities?
"The value is a combination of drawing traffic through content and rallying people around a common interest to exchange ideas or communication around that content..."
ZDNN: IBM to yank ads over privacy rules.
IBM Corp. has decided to pull its Internet advertising from any Web site in the U.S. or Canada that doesn't post clear privacy policies.
USA Today: Keeping 'pry' out of the privacy debate.
Internet tools are being developed to thwart online tracking and data collection, which are becoming more sophisticated and more prevalent...
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