April 23, 1999
ChannelSeven: Form Still Follows Function.
Well-designed commercial websites appeal to first-time visitors immediately. They have to, or a first-time visitor stays just that.
Industry Standard: The Problem With Patents.
Lawrence Lessig. Washington is obsessed with intellectual-property rights. It lives under the mistaken idea that stronger IP always means a stronger economy.
News.Com: Microsoft sued over digital rights software.
MediaDNA, a small start-up software firm, contends in a suit filed in federal court in San Diego that Microsoft is selling "digital rights management software" that copies MediaDNA's technology...
Industry Standard: Ulterior Motives.
Carl Steadman. "How does it feel to be the only person not to have gotten rich in the Internet Economy?"
Industry Standard: Reebok on the Run.
The company fears unauthorized discounting that undermines the value of its brand. The threat is particularly acute online.
Builder.Com: Ten Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Web Site.
Let's face it, we're all making this up as we go along. And in that kind of chaos, mistakes come with the territory.
ZDNN: Picture this: Kodak's digital future.
Q&A with Kodak CEO George Fischer. In my opinion, that's where the real value and the real push of digital imaging is. In network services.
Industry Standard: Ratings Firms Raise Their Game.
...the episode this week with Lycos and Yahoo demonstrates how difficult it is for the uninitiated to sort out which numbers are meaningful changes and which are just "spin."
News.Com: The content that would be king.
...Wall Street's reception of Salon.com, one of the first established Web magazines, could provide an important indication of content's coming of age on the Internet.
A List Apart: Designing Your Audience.
It's a question of audience, or if you prefer, a question of audience model. Are you designing for users, readers, or viewers?
Fortune: Go Ahead! Chuck Your PC Software.
Stewart Alsop. I'm beginning to believe that maybe everything we want computers to do can be done through the Web browser. Everything.
ClickZ: Do Incentives Work Online?
But if you base your belief in the efficacy of online incentives on your experiences offline, you're building that belief on a bundle of assumptions.
XML.Com: WavePhore Backs XMLNews Initiative.
XMLNews, developed by David Megginson, is an XML specification that describes the text and metadata of news content.
PC Week: Intel unveils worldwide Internet services initiative.
In September, the processor maker plans to deploy the first of what will become many worldwide centers built to provide data center service...
Wired News: Collective Computing Breaks Up.
But now they want to bring the idea to a wider range of computing-intensive applications, such as chip design, rendering of computer-animated movies, weather simulation, and simulations of nuclear blasts and bridge construction.
Time Digital: Q&A: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto.
The challenging part is figuring out how to create a game that people will understand.
News.Com: Diamond to protect copyrights on Rio.
Diamond has contracted with Intertrust Technologies to incorporate copyright protection software in its Rio player...
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