April 6, 1999
FEED Magazine: Cold, Hard Cache.
As microchips and networks permeate society, the paper produced by the Fed will fade in relevance, and each of us will relate to our assets more like a savings and loan.
Editor & Publisher: Tribune Takes on Online-Exclusive Breaking News.
Steve Outing. The market for local Web breaking news is largely working people who have Internet access at their desks, but typically do not listen to radio or watch television while they're working.
InfoWorld: Consumer sales on the Internet may force the industry to reinvent itself.
"What pure Internet retailers get, and traditional retailers may not, is that the Internet provides a great opportunity to extend the retail experience beyond just products and prices to include things like deep information and relevant content..."
InfoWorld: Semio to take manual labor out of data categorization.
Semio next week plans to launch its Semio Taxonomy, a technology designed to automatically categorize structured and unstructured data for the creation of directories on intranets and Web portals.
Wired News: Click Here for a Privacy Policy.
...if P3P software eventually becomes widespread, a P3P-compatible browser could digest a software version of a site's privacy statement.
News.Com: Amazon's auction options were limited.
...analysts believe the online retailer had good reasons for developing auctions in-house, rather than buying an off-the-shelf solution or buying eBay outright.
ZDNN: Web 'zine Slate prepares a new screen
Kinsley said Slate's readers fall largely into two groups, people who want New Yorker-type articles on the Web, and people who want the 'metafeatures,' such as Today's Papers and Summary Judgment.
PC World: A Roadmap for Net News.
Instead of displaying a chronological list of headlines as other Web sites do, NewsMaps.com shows thousands of articles or discussion group postings at the same time, grouped into topics and organized into a topographical map.
ZDNN: MS backs cyber privacy technology.
Under their proposal, the P3P spec would be incorporated on Web sites through a Web-based tool called a Privacy Wizard which would automate certain elements of the implementation process.
ZDNN: Portal commerce deals lack results.
The reason for the disappointing commerce numbers, according to the market researcher, are often overly ambitious deals that have little chance to be realized.
Forbes: Prime Time Anytime.
As more people are able to skip certain shows and easily fast-forward past the ads, the competition for the top shows will become even more intense while overall ad revenues will decline because less people will be viewing them.
SJ Mercury: Manifesto on `global conversation'.
Dan Gillmor. Cluetrain, deliberately or not, caters more to that self-indulgence than I'd like. I still recommend it. You don't have to agree, much less act on its advice, but you'll learn something.
Wired News: Shaping Online Privacy.
This year's CFP conference, which starts Tuesday in Washington, is especially focused on international Internet regulation and privacy protection.
PC Magazine: High-IQ Homes.
"Products are getting smarter, but there's a limit to what they can do for people if they're just working by themselves..."
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