April 7, 1999
NY Times: Books to Bytes: The Electronic Archive.
But the survey also showed that the libraries were not sure about how to preserve digital materials to insure their availability in the future even as such materials become a larger part of their holdings.
MSDN Online: WebDAV: Evolving the Web into a Read and Write Medium.
Simply stated, WebDAV makes the Web a collaborative, writeable medium. Today the Web is really read-only, where people mostly download and read stuff.
Builder.Com: The Internet Movie Database.
And don't get me started on the Refine Search interface, which includes such user-hostile terms as "substring," "fuzzy search," and "regular expression."
Internet Week: Databases Expand Into E-Commerce.
...most e-commerce sites see dynamic personalization as the end phase of a three-part process, preceded by defining an architecture and effectively managing content and transactions.
Webmonkey: Exchanging Data with WDDX.
In simple terms, WDDX is used to transfer structured data between different portions of a Web application that can be distributed to a variety of Web servers.
News.Com: NSI may blink in domain page dispute.
...NSI is expected to yield some ground over the controversial InterNIC Web site the company recently took over...
Netscape DevEdge: The Great Internet Fashion Show.
Perhaps never before has sheer style been so central to interface design. The chief reason for this, of course, is that there's been very little of substance that even a good interface designer could do to make the web more useful.
Wired News: Yahoo's Offline Communities.
Bekman says services like Yahoo Clubs have lost the experimentation grace period where experienced users will accept intermittent performance.
News.Com: Microsoft gives Hotmail a facelift.
With this week's upgrade, the site is working harder to do just that, feeding users an MSN Web search bar on selected pages along with links to MSN e-commerce services.
Red Herring: Yahoo gets over the PC.
"Right now, we look at it more as retaining users than [getting] a lot of new ones," she says, noting that most people who use handhelds and set-top boxes also have PCs.
ZDNN: Predicting what's next for e-commerce.
...sites that give consumers the ability to buy or do something online that they might hesitate to do offline seemed popular.
Savannah Morning News: Watts Wacker's view of the future.
Q&A with Watts Wacker. So making money on the information is really key and I liken to what we call meta-data: putting two different discrete databases together that make more information as a result of the merger.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of the redesign of Xerox's website.
I wouldn't say that Xerox completely wasted the $5M they spent on the redesign because the site does seem better, but it's amazingly poor for the high prize tag.
Wired News: Bulk Buying Comes to the Web.
The company believes it can get huge volume discounts from manufacturers by aggregating online shoppers' orders into one huge purchase.
Studio Archetype: User-centered design transforms Xerox Web site.
Based on our user research, we organized information about products and services on the new site around the tasks that motivate customers -- basic tasks such as printing, copying, and faxing.
Wired News: Salon Buys The Well.
The surprise move, announced Tuesday, gives Salon a dose of new credibility by tying it directly into a members-only community of scores of artists, writers, thinkers, scientists, programmers, and visionaries.
High Five: Rise of User Preference
We are entering a new phase in the development of the Web's fundamental interface assumptions, and as time goes on users will begin to take for granted what we do tomorrow as a experiment in new technology.
Editor & Publisher: Microsoft Starts with a Clean Slate.
The redesign also will accommodate more advertising approaches, including vertical ads along the right side of a page, sponsor links, advertorial pages, and more prominent banners.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of Usability improvements in the redesign of Salon.
Missing: subheads, bulleted lists and other aspects of writing for scannability; liquid layout that adapts to the user's preferred window size.
News.Com: Conference monitors privacy concerns.
...panelists feverishly pointed to evidence about international governments building widespread surveillance systems for email, phone, and wireless communication...
W3C: Platform for Privacy Preferences Working Draft.
P3P enables Web sites to express their privacy practices and enables users to exercise preferences over those practices.
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