April 21, 1999
Salon: Is AltaVista on the take?
Scott Rosenberg. What's interesting about "relevant paid links" isn't their greed; it's their admission that people still aren't getting what they want from search engines.
Washington Post: The Fact Is, Free Fax Attracts.
These firms hope to subsidize the free service with a mix of ads embedded in the faxes or with premium services for which they charge fees.
- Useit.Com: From March 7, 1999; Trust or Bust: Communicating Trustworthiness in Web Design
But as soon as I put their phone number on my business cards (and thus in thousands of rolodexes), I will be at the mercy of any degradation in service, spam faxing, and who knows what else in the future.
PC Magazine: Image Compression: The Next Wave(let).
On the simplest level, JPEG 2000 will offer both lossy and lossless compression. More important, it abandons DCT compression in favor of wavelet compression.
Red Herring: InterNAP wakes up transmission quality.
InterNAP offers an Internet traffic routing system that enables its customers to bypass completely the often congested public NAPs.
News.Com: Lycos flies on traffic report.
But the report, by New York-based Media Metrix, once again raises long-standing questions about Web site traffic measurement--specifically concerning the lack of standards for it.
USA Today: E-tailers size up Web shoppers.
Say hello to a high-tech cyberbazaar, where sites size you up as soon as you walk through their virtual doors and price items accordingly...
PC Week: CyberCash chief: E-commerce must be simpler.
...Melton said the industry must avoid those killers of simplicity, such as client-side software (ironically, CyberCash was one of the first creators of an electronic wallet), monolithic e-commerce applications...
Upside: Passing the Torch.
With Web sites such as LinuxToday and Slashdot.org channeling huge volumes of readers to selected news stories, a quiet collective-bargaining relationship is emerging between advertising-based news sites dependent upon reader volume...
ahref.com: The Broadcast Mentality.
The decisive question for web producers is this: Do you see your audience as receivers of your information, or as producers of their own?
Interactive Week: Netcenter Lets Members Build Own Sites
...Site Central users will be able to take advantage of Netcenter content, borrowing dynamic content such as automatically updated sports scores and news headlines...
Wired News: US, EU Still Stuck on Privacy.
That concerns US Internet companies -- and other data-rich market sectors, such as the airline industry -- which prefer a private-sector-driven, self-regulation approach to consumer privacy.
News.Com: NSI skyrockets on fee collection decision.
...allows it to charge a one-time $10,000 fee for rivals to connect to its computer systems and an $18 fee to list an address in the registry of domain names for two years.
TechWeb: Companies Get Identified To Break Net Naming Monopoly.
The first five are AOL, France Telecom's Oleane, Internet Counsel of Registrars, Melbourne IT, and register.com.
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