April 16, 1999
TechWeb: Group Eyes Standards For Voice-Activated Handhelds.
VoiceTimes' professed goal is to standardize the technical specifications for voice-activated handheld devices...
Alta Vista: Paid Placements.
Simply put, those companies willing to pay the most are highly likely to have information relevant to the users' interests.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of the response time rule on the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce site.
Unfortunately, the reaction is less than immediate (i.e., slower than 0.1 seconds), making the user miss many of the pop-ups.
Wired News: AltaVista Hazy on Sold Searches.
Slides of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, used to sell the keyword auction to Doubleclick advertisers, show that the sold positions appear in a similar typeface, size, and placement to the unpaid results.
AT&T Research: Beyond Concern: Understanding Net Users' Attitudes About Online Privacy.
...we look beyond the fact that people are concerned and attempt to understand how they are concerned.
ZDNN: Web site trades stock in jocks.
"These sites can build very targeted communities, which is compelling to advertisers and retailers..."
@NewYork: New Money for Content Raises the Stake for FEED.
But even with the renewed focus on business development and sales, developing content remains the passion of FEED's founders.
Wired News: Lycos Embraces Open Web Index.
[Srinija Srinivasan, Yahoo's director of surfing] "If the goal is to get to pages on the Web and somehow catalog every document on the Web, then I agree that a contained finite approach will not scale..."
Time Digital: "AOL Anywhere" Screen Phone.
You can never have enough bandwidth but I'd still gladly trade in even some of my home 56K if it got me something else even better -- persistent connection.
Editor & Publisher: Off-Screen Space Used for Ads.
Steve Outing. It's starting to offer advertisers placements for narrow and deep ads on the right side of its pages where individual articles appear.
News.Com: Why portal deals are falling flat.
A year later, a growing chorus of rumblings from dissatisfied merchants leads us to believe that click-through rates and conversion rates from clicks are well below those necessary to justify the expensive deals.
SJ Mercury: Brave new world.
[Manuel Castells, Professor at UC Berkeley] ...Castells says, the way these networks function has profound implications for everything from national sovereignty to how people form their identities.
RCFoC: The Spring of the Internet.
...it reminds me of what's happening on the Internet, which itself is getting ready to burst forth with a quarter billion people by 2003 according to Datamonitor's "Future of the Internet" report.
News.Com: New top-level domains on horizon.
The IETF working draft proposes to create four new TLDs strictly for the use of tests and examples...
Upside: Adjusting the Image on the Flat-panel Display Market.
As the supply-demand dynamic works itself out, suppliers in Asia and the United States are trying to figure out which segments to target and where the profits will be.
News.Com: eBay mulls fixed-price auctions.
eBay has been surveying user reaction to sales of fixed-price items on its site...
Forbes: E-tailers turn to auctions.
The next wave of web auctions will be from regular retailers, which customarily assign a fixed price to products.
TechWeb: ACM Gets Into E-Commerce.
The 80,000-member, 52-year-old educational organization, based in New York, is adding e-commerce to its list of special-interest groups.
Salon: Must AOL pay "community leaders"?
The Department of Labor, however, is specifically interested in the question of whether volunteers were working as employees.
Washington Post: AltaVista to Sell Advertisers Spots in Search Lists.
[Jakob Nielsen] "Instead of having advertising separated and clearly delineated, they will now have advertising as part of the basic service. Even if they mark it extremely clear, it is a highly confusing thing."
Washington Post: Judge Strips Look-Alike Web Name.
"This is going to give a precedent to established companies to go out and get these typo pirates."
TechWeb: U.K. Start-Up Offers Organized Wireless Email.
A British start-up has launched a Web-based e-mail solution that indexes everything received and is designed to allow users to search inboxes using any wireless device that runs a browser.
Wired News: Another Privacy Hole in IE 5.0?
An obscure feature in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 Web browser informs Web sites when users bookmark their pages.
News.Com: NSI readies company profile service.
Network Solutions is slated to announce Monday that it will launch a service that publishes additional information about companies that have registered for URLs.
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