April 2, 1999
Advertising Age: IBM privacy policy draws industry cheers.
"Our objective is not to cancel advertising, but to give people a financial incentive to do something that we think every site ought to be doing..."
IETF: Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol.
The working group will develop an architecture for simple instant messaging and presence awareness/notification.
AtNewYork: Muze Plans Move From Backend to Consumers.
But the real payday could come from building up Muze.Com's consumer profile, then positioning the company in the middle of the digitally downloadable music revolution.
TechWeb: ICanBuy.com Markets To Kids -- Carefully.
A San Francisco start-up is entering perhaps the most controversial arena on the Web -- marketing to minors.
Network Solutions Press Release: Network Solutions Implements New Registry System.
...Network Solutions’ registry site will contain documents and links pertaining to the Shared Registry System transition effort.
Freedom Forum: Techno-War reminds us of limits: human, political, technical.
Jon Katz. Americans are the world's best machine-builders ever, and their faith in the power of their technological creations to alter history is nearly a national religion.
News.Com: Another key Mozilla figure departs.
"When we should have been focusing on one product, we were working on versions 4.06, 4.5, the 5.0 browser without Raptor, and Raptor."
InfoWorld: Move to link IE 5.0 to desktop applications frowned upon.
"Anything you would want to do with the advanced features for Web collaboration is unavailable unless you use Explorer 5.0..."
News.Com: Lycos's loop has users reconsider rivals.
So much for "cooptition"--Lycos is using its search engine to keep users from defecting to its competitors.
PC World: People With Disabilities Reach for Web Access.
"If companies are designing or putting their information on the Web internally or for the public, or doing e-commerce, then it's suicide to make an inaccessible Web site. It's throwing away those customers."
PC Week: Microsoft widens Windows CE's reach.
Another goal of the upgrade is to offer a more Web-like look and feel...
Industry Standard: ESPN.com Users Cry Foul.
As for the question of the poor response, Reis acknowledged that as the technology has become more sophisticated there hasn't been the need to carry as large a support staff as, say, two years ago.
Online Journalism Review: The Pulse of Tablet Technology.
The multibillion-dollar question... is how good does an electronic display have to be for tablets to be widely adopted?
Web Review: If You Meet a Data Bigot on the Road, Kill Him.
Self-styled "data bigots" seem to have no compunction for simply dismissing the entire field of information retrieval and the knowledge its practitioners have accumulated over the past decades.
Web Techniques: As Simple As Possible.
The Law of Large Numbers dictates that as your site's audience grows, it necessarily becomes less technically minded and therefore less tolerant of elaborate, error-prone, overburdened designs.
Wired News: Credit Card Fraud Bedevils Web.
But security experts say designing Web sites that require several pieces of information about the card and the potential buyer helps a lot. Those items can then be run through screening software that looks for anomalies and red flags, generating a fraud risk score.
Marketing Computers: Visio Takes Apps to the Web.
"When [customers] are handing over the dollars, we'll know clearly what they are using and not using..."
Industry Standard: Web Dispatches From the Front.
...both ABCNews.com and MSNBC.com have recently sent reporters to the Balkan hostilities zone, where they are producing material just for the Web.
TechWeb: Sharp Seeks Shelter From LCD Storm.
Sharp Electronics Corp. took the wraps off a new LCD architecture this week with an eye toward broadening display usage in portable equipment and television sets.
A List Apart: Rethinking the Interface.
Avoid complicating things by adding what you think are "better" buttons, or a "more interesting" navigation bar. Unless it succeeds in providing intuitive navigation, it simply doesn't succeed.
Upside: Human Search Help.
The companies find information on the Web differently, but both boast of their ability to "humanize" the Web search experience.
PC Week: IBM launches a Clever search.
HITS looks for good sources of information and pairs them with sites featuring strong compilations of such sources.
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