April 9, 1999
Industry Standard: Bogus Clickers Are Cheating Ad Networks.
...a growing number of clicks are coming not from potential customers, but from pieces of shareware that mime customer behavior and help their users collect the fees.
TechWeb: UPS Delivers E-Commerce Tools.
"UPS is giving us a data stream and letting us configure it the way we want our users to see it..."
Online Journalism Review: Old Media Firms Dig a Grave With Shovelware.
Editors must have the nerve to allow readers to modify the form and content of news so that they can understand it in a personal context.
Industry Standard: Inktomi's Dr. Eric Brewer Sees the Future.
"In the last year, we have gotten all the scale and availability and presence issues under control, and we've turned the guns on relevance. It's already having a big impact internally, and it's going to make a difference."
News.Com: NSI alters InterNIC domain site.
Under a change made early this afternoon, InterNIC visitors are sent to a page that explains that InterNIC is a cooperative site between NSI and the U.S. government.
AtNewYork: The E-Commerce Skeptics Just Might Be Right.
Jason Chervokas. The underlying fact of the online commerce revolution is that it has begun to wrest value and control of the retail channel away from brick-and-mortar retailers and placed it, not in the hands of the online retailers, but in the hands of the distributors of products.
Industry Standard: The Battle for Mom-and-Pop Web Shops.
But new software companies, portals, startup service providers and ISPs are making a renewed push for a market that proved more difficult than many observers anticipated.
Interactive Week: Yahoo! Gets Personal With Broadcast Services.
Early targets for the grassroots multimedia integration include incorporating audio and video offerings into online classified ads, Web-based auctions and the portal's real-estate listings...
ZDNN: Microsoft eyeing Net calendar service.
A person familiar with the matter said the company planned to combine an in-house team that had begun working on a calendar service with Jump's dozen or so programmers.
[clip]: User Friendly.
Q&A with Jakob Nielsen.There are still too many companies that aren't even on the Web yet and too many companies that have a bad website that doesn't serve their customers in a decent way.
ClickZ: Give Them The M.O.S.T..
This week's article takes a look at one way in which direct marketing can encompass elements of the online customer experience that are often ignored.
Editor & Publisher: Exclusive Web Content Sales: A Newspaper Opportunity?
Steve Outing. His concept, which he is currently pitching to the newspaper industry, is that there is money to be made by offering selected newspaper content to content-hungry Web sites on an exclusive, enterprise basis.
News.Com: U.S. privacy policy trailing behind.
The Net is breaking down commercial and regulatory barriers, making it virtually impossible for countries to be islands unto themselves when it comes to online consumer protection and civil rights issues.
Forbes: Digital butler.
"They'd get thousands of responses to their keyword searches, and after clicking on two or three pages, they’d give up..."
Wired News: Birth of an RFC Nation.
Request for Comments submissions to the Net standards body, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), typically proposed standards for various plumbing specs of the now-ubiquitous network of networks.
NY Times: Ruling Against Domain Name Speculator Could Set Precedent
...a state court judge in Virginia has confirmed what most people have long assumed: domain names are a type of property that is owned by domain name holders and may be sold by them.
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