April 5, 1999
Today's Links Story: Hello salon.com
Salon.Com: Netscape to its online community: You're evicted.
"There was no warning ahead of time -- I think Netscape should have said, months ago when AOL bought the company, that the forums might be shut down. Then we could have prepared for it."
NY Times: A Milestone on the Road to Ultrafast Computers.
Chips based on this new technology, known as tunneling magnetic junction random access memory, or tmj-ram for short, would be ultrafast, consume very little power and retain stored data when a computer was shut down.
News.Com: IBM kicking off Net video research.
International Business Machines is setting up two projects to test new technology that could make the Internet faster and better able to run video images.
ClickZ: Mobile Marketing: Any Time, Any Place, Any Device.
These key factors fuel the growth of mobile commerce because the new wireless devices are the next point-of-sale (POS) devices.
Webmonkey: IE 5.0 - Good, But Not up to Standards.
But as improved as IE 5 is, it still falls exasperatingly short of meeting W3C standards for HTML, CSS, and DOM.
ZDNN: Portal 'Cold War' gets organized.
"The portals are in a foundation period; the companies want to get all the services and applications they can, to be competitive with the other portal sites..."
News.Com: Mapping MSN's changes.
"If these guys don't get a boss, the answer is no, the reorganization doesn't change things much because they're not media guys..."
PC Week: AOL buys When.com calendar service.
...the company plans to make the calendar service available across its product offerings, including the recently acquired Netscape Netcenter...
News.Com: NSI, Commerce discuss domains.
Over the past few weeks, both parties have been meeting regularly to discuss those changes and to map out the opening up of the registration system to competitors.
Wired News: Amazon's Auction a Bust So Far.
Amazon spokesperson Paul Capelli said the company hopes to engineer changes soon to make the auction items more relevant to the book listings they appear with.
TechWeb: Microsoft Gears Up For Server Suite Upgrade.
Microsoft also is readying Polar, another server tool that will facilitate knowledge-management capabilities such as document tracking, collaboration, and analysis.
Time Digital: Salon: Onward and Upward.
"On the Web, the section name and your site name also serve as your navigation labels. It's not like you can have a cute decorative name and a clear navigation at the same time."
ZDNN: Controlling the customers' click.
A growing number of new providers are offering tools for testing the end-user experience on closed networks, all the way from development to deployment.
ZDNN: Missing the hits with the wrong url.
One consumer products giant is working to register about 60,000 of its product names...
Adweek: No Beginning, No End.
...advertisers are finding it's ask and ye shall receive, as publishers scuffle for juicy campaigns and the hard-to-come-by ad revenue they generate.
Internet World: Keeping a News Library in Order.
The combination of RetrievalWare's natural-language processing and semantic network technology, which allows queries on the user end and file indexing on the database end to be highly refined, is behind the high-velocity searching.
Salon.Com: Welcome to the new Salon.
Letter from the Editor. We don't think the word "magazine" properly describes what we do any more.
Interactive Week: IBM Design Insider: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
In essence, Karat's bill of rights calls for designers to rethink their entire approach to computing, in an effort to create an interface that fits the needs of the user rather than the other way around.
Interactive Week: MSNBC Cashes In On Server Cache.
By using cache - the memory buffers that can store timeless content at remote sites sprinkled across the Web - site operators can limit the drain on their central servers that can happen when users click to request new Web pages.
Editor & Publisher: Give Us Headlines, We'll Send You Readers.
Steve Outing. And increasingly, other entities are sending Web users directly to stories inside news sites — bypassing news site home pages. It's simply the way of the Web, and publishers are foolish if they try to prevent other sites from steering new users to them.
Interactive Week: Follow The Cyber-Brick Road.
"The fact is, going forward size won't mean as much as it once did. What you really will need is a handful of people with a great deal of experience and knowledge of a particular market."
InfoWorld: XML tools to relieve Web pains.
WavePhore is standardizing previously disparate news feeds into XML for delivery to news-oriented Web sites. NewsPak uses Cogent, its coding agent, to pull specific information from the articles for the document's meta data.
LA Times: Shades of Gray Could Be the Color of Success for Flat-Panel Design.
And perhaps most important of all, the researchers found that their devices exhibited a natural gray scale, yielding the various tones needed for so many applications.
News.Com: Yahoo targets handhelds, WebTV.
"...we remain committed to forging agreements with companies such as Online Anywhere, that offer Yahoo content display integrity and maximum extensibility in the PC environment and beyond."
News.Com: Hand-wringing over Handheld PCs.
"The whole reason people didn't like the clamshells in the first place was small screens and keyboards."
Wired News: Crypto Set for a Quantum Leap.
"...we are using quantum physics to provide an absolutely secure method of key distribution."
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