April 3, 1999
Today's Links Story: Shrinking SalonMagazine.Com
SJ Mercury: Digital Storytelling.
Though it uses today's technical wizardry, digital storytelling derives its power - as with any other narrative form - from story, characters, situations, mystery, evocative images - in short, the age-old poetics of human drama.
SJ Mercury: Web portals use mass marketing to build identity.
The future of the Web is now in the hands of the people who sold you Wheaties, Crest, Tide and Planter's Peanuts.
Upside: Bandwidth Overkill.
"If the price drops, all sorts of things change. All sorts of things can happen, things that have been waiting in the wings."
Industry Standard: Servicing Appliances.
Fundamentally, the ability to access all information from anywhere and have a single unified and synchronized information repository is critical to making appliances useful.
InfoWorld: You've got to understand Internet Epidemiology in order to monetize the Web.
The next two steps will become increasingly important as advertising fades. You have to "memberize" your site's visitors, and then "monetize" their visits.
SJ Mercury: Globalism, tribalism collide in events.
Dan Gillmor. The ancient and the modern are colliding everywhere, as tribalism confronts globalism, but rarely with such reverberation as in the past week.
InfoWorld: A swarm of WASPs will add to the buzz on the business Net.
...what's emerging is an array of Web applications that perform functions uniquely suited to the world of the Internet.
Wired News: Memory Boost for Palm V.
But thanks to the ingenuity of Palm hackers, the miniscule memory chip can now be replaced with a whopping 8-MB module.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of a Forbes article looking at factors influencing Internet penetration in Europe.
...European pocketbooks are hit twice as hard, making it no surprise that there are still more Americans online.
Industry Standard: Everyone's a Publisher.
Through a combination of on-demand printing, digital production, traditional distribution and online marketing, upstart Internet outfits such as Xlibris and ToExcel.com are radically revising the way books are produced and marketed.
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