April 8, 1999
Internet Week: E-Biz Sites Push For 100% Uptime.
...captains of e-industry are overhauling their hardware, network infrastructure and applications to handle escalating Web traffic, eliminate expensive outages and prepare for future demand.
Atlantic Unbound: The MP3 Revolution.
Charles C. Mann. More than that, though, MP3 is a marvelously clear example of how an apparently small technological change can have unexpected and explosive impacts on society. Indeed, MP3 might become the first innovation on the Net that actually deserves the appellation "revolutionary."
News.Com: Netscape shuttering Netcenter forums.
The company promises a "more robust offering that leverages both AOL and Netcenter resources" when it reconstitutes the forums next month.
Web Review: Field Report: South By Southwest.
"Shopping on the Web shouldn't be just quick—it should be fun. It should inform. Shoppers should be able to turn into knowledgeable consumers."
Industry Standard: Surf's Up at Work.
...Media Metrix conducted an analysis that found at-work Internet users, on average, accessed 40 percent more Web pages and spent 35 percent more time online than at-home users during February 1999.
Wired News: Net Users to Top 200 Million.
The UN's annual economic and social survey of Asia, released Thursday, said that more than 200 million people will be connected to the Internet by the year 2000.
TechWeb: Internet Will Be Wonderful, Dangerous.
Global conflicts and taxes will become catalysts for change on the Internet in the coming years, said Cerf.
ZDNN: Service the key to selling online.
"Online service must exceed traditional service in order to get consumers to switch."
News.Com: Start-up: Every firm needs its own portal.
InfoImage joins a small but growing group of vendors that are developing knowledge management software packages that target particular areas within organizations.
Fortune: Copyright Protection Is for Dinosaurs.
Stewart Alsop. But now we live in a new world where copying is next to impossible to stop. Indeed, copying is so easy that perhaps a government-enforced monopoly on creative efforts doesn't make sense anymore.
PC Magazine: Microsoft Holds Court.
...demonstrated one of WinHEC's glitziest technologies: a 3-D software user interface designed to use home- and hallway-metaphors to help users navigate the Web, documents and other kinds of information.
CBS MarketWatch: Enhanced EDGAR on the way.
He wants to become "the Rand-McNally of the Internet," providing mapping services that "take a step above the Internet and look around, to show the spatial relationships between different pieces of information."
ZDNN: The need for robust design.
Today's IT products, both hardware and software, are amazing when they're doing what they should--but they often don't exhibit the graceful degradation of function that distinguishes industrial-strength design.
RCFoC: The Silicon Age.
But even though it takes more effort to drive to another store, I just saw a similar example of "real-world fickleness" in the exodus of empty-handed people from this bricks and mortar store.
PC Week: Microsoft outlines plans for digital content management.
...announced the Windows Image Acquisition Architecture, which will build digital imaging functionality -- including the ability to edit, print and publish images -- into future versions of Window 98 and Windows 2000.
ZDNN: Free speech and privacy forever linked.
"Governments will increasingly be pressured to find individual Internet speakers," which means "an increasing assault on online anonymity..."
InfoWorld: UPS tools integrate shipping information with I-commerce sites.
OnLine Tools is the latest version of a set of applications available to users to integrate their storefronts with the country's largest shipping company.
SJ Mercury: Salon marries Well in aim to boost revenues, image.
He said people who receive free content are somewhat willing to look at ads, but those who pay for a gathering place do not want to be subject to commercial intrusions.
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