April 20, 1999
NY Times: Browser Foes Drop Enmity to Run Start-Up Together.
...Tellme intends to use some combination of natural-language and speech-recognition technology to give users a simpler way to find information on the World Wide Web or retrieve it from a computer, probably with a telephone.
Salon: Online gaming's store-shelf chains.
The future of online is retail sale plus free online play. This is the business model that works.
Editor & Publisher: Photo Archives Look to Collect Consumers' Cash.
Steve Outing. ...it marks the first time that a major photographic archive has taken advantage of the potential for selling direct to consumers for personal use, made possible by utilizing new automated content transaction technology.
ClickZ: The Electronic Connection.
...the Cluetrain Manifesto asks for us and the corporate world to shut up and start acting like human beings.
FEED Magazine: The Hit Parade.
Clay Shirky. The web removes technological bottlenecks, but creates attention bottlenecks -- unlike TV, whose universe is so small that it can be chronicled in a single magazine, the web is a vast and unmanageable riot of possibility and disappointment.
Wired News: Sega Zips Up Web Integration.
Iomega will piggyback on the Dreamcast game console using a 100-MB Zip drive that attaches to the system. The attachment will allow game updates via the Web.
News.Com: Will NSI rivals have a fair chance?
"If the point is to have competition and to make sure that the registry is open to everyone on nondiscriminatory terms, it probably doesn't make any sense to have one of the competitors in charge of the registry..."
PC Week: A boom in interactive paging is predicted.
The primary goal of the group: to work with PDA manufacturers to embed Motorola's ReFLEX communications technology into a variety of handheld devices that provide hassle-free, two-way wireless messaging.
Good Reports: E-recruiting: Online Strategies in the War for Talent.
Jakob Nielsen and Mark Hurst. The report shows the strong and weak points of seven top online recruiting sites.
Freedom Forum: Newspapers losing core business that they could keep.
Jon Katz. Editors know that Grove is right in challenging newspapers not to be something other than papers, but to be better papers.
ZDNN: The death of a newspaper.
John C. Dvorak. This sounds good on the surface, but when editors and reporters have no knowledge of a subject, they also have no idea what's important and what's not important. Thus the story selection is usually weak and uninteresting.
Forbes: True color.
J.Crew wanted a low-cost, simple fix that wouldn't require Web shoppers to download and install complex color-correcting software. "That would be too much of a schlep..."
Forbes: Unaccountable.
So far, though, advertisers must contend with wildly contradictory numbers from rival services and Web sites themselves. The ratings game is marred by multiple methodologies, conflicting claims and clashing definitions.
TechWeb: Net Group To Choose Domain Name Competitors.
The government and NSI have had to work out which property is public and which is the company's intellectual property and how much NSI can charge competing registrars for use of its database during the transition...
Contentious: Christopher Locke... rides the Cluetrain.
Q&A with Christopher Locke. Make the point to them that inhuman communications just aren't working anymore. The market isn't buying it — they're laughing at it.
W3C: Voice Browser Activity.
W3C is working to expand access to the Web to allow people to interact with Web sites via spoken commands, and listening to prerecorded speech, music and synthetic speech.
MSDN Online: A Web Developer at Internet World.
The main thing I didn't anticipate was a shift in my perception of how the Internet is changing everything.
News.Com: Web email changing fast, eyes profits.
The advent of premium services comes as the free email services struggle to turn their popularity into profitability.
Interactive Week: Corbis Puts Images In Consumers' Hands.
Corbis is partnering with Qpass, a provider of payment services for small transactions, to offer more than 350,000 images for individual use.
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