April 1, 1999
Jamie Zawinki: resignation and postmortem.
April 1st, 1999 will be my last day as an employee of the Netscape Communications division of America Online, and my last day working for mozilla.org.
Jamie Zawinski: From March 31, 1999; netscape and aol.
Everything that is good about the Internet, everything that differentiates it from television, is about empowerment of the individual.
Microsoft Backstage: MSDN Online Case Study.
The site has undergone several major redesigns, including one in mid-1997 to emphasize original editorial content and another in March 1999 to offer personalization features.
Webmonkey: Managing Customer Feedback.
The key to timely and professional customer support is to empower users: Let them answer their own questions.
Useit.Com: Readers' Comments on URL as UI.
Make it easy to link to your site in systematic ways so that server-side programs on other sites can computationally generate links to specific services on your site.
News.Com: A small world of their own.
Q&A with Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman of TheGlobe.com. ...we've married together the breadth and the depth that you find in portals with user interaction--and then, wrapped around that, e-commerce.
News.Com: AOL, Mozilla lose key evangelist.
Longtime Netscape client engineer and Mozilla.org pioneer and evangelist Jamie Zawinski handed in his resignation today...
Wired News: Public Access TV -- on Steroids.
Multimedia search engines are poised to do for audio and video what the original search engines did for the written word.
News.Com: Start-up aims to break info bottleneck.
...the software combines unstructured information, such as Word documents, Web pages, and other text-based content with structured information, such as that contained in corporate databases, and delivers it to users through one integrated application...
News.Com: Amazon auctions more like a mall.
"They should do their homework, but if they end up paying more, that's the auction world."
News.Com: Start-up helps bring Web to handhelds.
Proxinet's technology translates Web content on the fly and thus can be used for live Web surfing without having to hook up to a PC...
RCFoC: The Story of the Internet.
The thing is, it isn't MP3 that's the villain here; it just happens to be a "good enough" encoding technique that came along at the right time and opened a doorway for online music delivery.
Industry Standard: Microsoft to Offer Free Music on Launch.com.
The free singles will be secured with Microsoft's new ecryption technology, reportedly called Secure ASF, which will allow the artists' labels to control the file's terms of usage.
ZDNN: MS facing the music from bands.
...record executives are annoyed that it is independently releasing software before the coalition has agreed on a standard.
ZDNN: Affiliates: a better way to advertise online?
So is there a downside? Well, for one, consumers could rebel against sites clogged with dozens of buttons and banners flogging products, the same way some reject sites loaded down with ads.
Wired News: Death to Sleepy Stock Data.
...the first step toward creating new ways to navigate databases and the Internet. Eventually, the company hopes to create a new class of visualization tools that will put the current generation of portals and search engines to shame.
Wired News: Mozilla's First Birthday.
Q&A with Mitchell Baker and Eric Mann of Netscape. Why do a lot of people use Apache? Because my Web server is so crucial, because if I need to tweak that puppy I can tweak it. The same thing is going to happen with future [Web browsers].
CIO Web Business: You Thing Tomaytoes, I Think Tomahtoes.
A former reference librarian and researcher in Apple Computer Inc.'s advanced technology group, he relished the chance to pioneer a Web-based knowledge management system.
News.Com: IBM pulling Web ads: trend or quick fix?
...many companies have no interest in providing full disclosure to surfers on how they use information collected on their sites because their business model depends on gathering that data.
News.Com: Mergers and acquisitions, Internet-style.
The nature of the Internet lends itself to regrouping, consolidating, chasing new markets in new ways.
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