April 26, 1999
NY Times: Time Warner Closing Pathfinder Site.
The Web audience, said Ms. Allen of Forrester Research, has "a different set of expectations: they look for utility and convenience and savings, as well as content."
Builder.Com: HTML Writers Guild Seeks AWAREness.
Dan Shafer. ...there are strong, selfish advantages to be gained by making your site accessible; but, not all of your efforts apply only to those who visit your site and who happen to have a disability.
- HTML Writers Guild: AWARE Center.
Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center.
SJ Mercury: Amazon.com Offering 'E-Cards'.
Starting Tuesday, Amazon will offer more than 800 cards in 45 categories, all without charge or registration...
CBS MarketWatch: Q&A with Scott Kurnit, CEO of MiningCo.com.
Only recently because we made some people aware of that boycott, [now] they list a fraction of our sites. In my opinion, either they're just plain bad or they're editorially corrupt.
Wired News: Commerce Tech Boss Checks In.
Trust is the intangible force sustaining the Internet economy, e-commerce policy maven Elliot Maxwell said Monday at a Hambrecht & Quist technology conference.
News.Com: Lucent unveils new caching technology.
Lucent's IPWorX detects and anticipates Internet traffic volume and is able to replicate pages in high demand...
Industry Standard: Forecasting the Future.
So what happens next? We polled some of the leaders of the Internet Economy and asked them that question.
News.Com: Amazon makes Net triple play.
Amazon.com today said it agreed to buy Exchange.com, Accept.com, and Alexa Internet...
Industry Standard: Amazon.com Snaps Up Three More Firms.
The company's Related Links navigation technology, with its store of users' surfing preferences, could add to Amazon's personalization and merchandising capabilities, as well as its affiliate marketing network.
News.Com: Inktomi inks deals to boost searches.
Inktomi signed deals today with Network Computer Incorporated and Spyglass in an effort to bring corporate-level information searching systems to the home.
News.Com: Time Warner to shutter Pathfinder.
"Over the next 6 months we will phase out the Pathfinder name, and we will continue with our promotional strategy to promote individual brands..."
DaveNet: Ben Rosen is Back.
The rapid growth in functionality that rose around HTML and HTTP, the web, is over. Now the changes come slowly because the market has become slow at adopting change.
Interactive Week: Is The Net Still Paved In Gold?
...debate whether the dream of reinventing the Net lives on or is constrained by the maturing of this fast growing industry.
Industry Standard: The Information Exchange Economy.
A series of initiatives, built on the basic tenets of direct and database marketing, are converging to transform the browse-and-surf Internet into a giant information exchange...
News.Com: Microsoft jumps into online scheduling.
...announced its plans to acquire Jump Networks, maker of a technology that lets users access their email, address books, and calendars from any Internet-connected computer.
Interactive Week: E-Com '99: State Of The Art.
"Everyone is in such a hurry to get on the Web, but getting your Web site integrated with your back-end systems, particularly inventory, should be the priority..."
Intel Press Release: Intel and Metacreations Announce Availability of Specification for Scaling and Streaming 3-D Content.
Intel Corporation and MetaCreations Corporation announced today the immediate availability of a specification for scaling and streaming 3-D content on the Web...
PC Week: Database technology adds juice to Web sites.
Thanks in large part to falling RAM prices, main memory database technology is finding a home in products from Microsoft Corp. as well as a pair of Silicon Valley startups.
Interactive Week: Service Opens ISP Caches To Publishers.
Sandpiper Networks and America Online have teamed up to open AOL's estimated 300 network caches to the companies that provide content stored in them.
Industry Standard: The State of The Standard.
Our plan was to launch an information services company that would serve these new leaders, the architects of the Internet Economy, and then grow with them.
ZDNN: RCA set to ship WebTV sets.
...the WebTV circuitry, along with a telephone line connection, will be built into all television sets larger than 27 inches in size.
Interactive Week: New Lycos Division Broadcasts Broadband.
With the Multimedia Products Group, Lycos becomes the latest portal to fashion a strategy for addressing opportunities made possible by the increasing availability of high-speed access.
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