April 14, 1999
CBS MarketWatch: What's the news on Internet news?
"What we've got with the Web is the ultimate vending machine," Coate said. "And that's not a glib analogy. You want a simple, obvious, easy to use interface where the result is known and quick."
NY Times: Alta Vista Invites Advertisers to Pay for Top Ranking.
"We've tested a number of concepts so it will be very clear to users this is not the index results. These will be boxed, say, or there will be a red thing that says this is an advertisement."
PC World: Lycos Lures With Personal Options.
"Content is still king when it comes to personalization." He estimates that about 1 percent of all surfers actually take the time to personalize a Web page.
Wired News: Take My Email, but Not My Data.
Participants in the study said that the idea of Web sites sharing data was their biggest concern when submitting personal information.
InfoWorld: Berners-Lee traces Web's course at MIT event, receives chair
In the face of the Web's explosive growth, issues of accessibility, internationalization, security, privacy, stability, and large-scale collaboration are critical to the realization of the medium's promise...
ZDNN: Intel's vision: 3-D, talking Internet.
For example, how to cut down on the information overload that comes with the vast amounts of content flying around on e-mail and the World Wide Web? Simple: just represent all the information in flashy, rotating 3-D carousels...
USA Today: Untangling the habits of Web users.
Are the habits caused by today's limitations of the medium, or are they human behavioral traits reflected in Net usage?
Wired News: Grove to Newsies: 'Get With It!'.
Newspapers need to hold companies more accountable, calling attention to things such as business visions that haven't materialized.
Editor & Publisher: Want Control of Your Content? Let Go of It!
Steve Outing. ...but increasingly in the coming years, there will be significant revenue opportunities for publishers willing to sell their content to anyone who wants to republish it on their Web site.
Information Week: Assembly Online.
Companies in a variety of industries offer Web configuration and build-to-order services to meet a growing demand for personalized products.
Editor & Publisher: NY Times Changes AOL Pages to Web Format.
Meislin says the process of formatting Times copy for its Web site and for AOL was largely automated, but still "required a significant amount of human involvement."
ZDNN: AOL serves up 2 billion URLs a day.
AOL reported Wednesday that its users request an average 2.6 billion Web URLs per day this year, up from 800 million in 1998.
Wired News: QuickTime 4.0 Plays MP3.
QuickTime supports Windows and the Mac OS and has undergone significant changes in its interface and under the hood...
USA Today: Privacy raises many online issues.
[Tim Berners-Lee] He's concerned about some search services' practice of secretly letting their "platinum partners" buy top positions in search results, making them appear to be the best site to find what's being searched for.
NY Times: America Online Is Facing Challenge Over Free Labor.
A decision against AOL could set a precedent for the online industry that might force companies to rethink the way they use volunteers...
Wired News: Domain Name List Is Dwindling.
A Wired News investigation found that the .com versions of nearly all popular words have been taken. Of 25,500 standard dictionary words we checked, only 1,760 were free.
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