April 27, 1999
NY Times: Changes in Search Industry Create Strange Bedfellows.
But even the most profitable search service could never afford to pay a staff large enough to keep up with the 5.4 million sites that are now estimated to be online, not to mention address changes and dead links.
NY Times: High-Speed Access Begins to Alter the Role the Internet Plays in the Home.
But the most far-reaching effect on the daily lives of broadband users is this: the Internet is no longer something they have to get to; instead, it is always there.
Salon: The Web Numbers Game.
"It's data that is methodologically flawed, but people who spend money use it to spend money..."
InfoWorld: IEC: Panelists offer tips on dealing with the Net.
...the panelists stressed that company executives really have to understand the online experience from the users' point of view -- and look at their own Web sites that way.
PC World: The Web's "Research" Engine.
Northern Light is a search engine and a pay-as-you-go database service in one package. For that reason, the portal bills itself as a "research" engine.
IIPC: Internet Information Payments Collaborative Roundtable Summit.
Publishers are confused by the array of unproved options for managing and selling information on the Internet. The summit is designed to clear some of that confusion.
NewMedia Magazine: Beauty is Only Skin Deep.
"Having a sense of personality on the site is useful to the extent that it helps users understand what's going on, but harmful if it gets in the way of user goals."
Wired News: Emotions Over a Wire, Solved?
Cromarty said that for years to come, such low-bandwidth animations will be the only realistic way to send large chunks of video over the public Internet.
SJ Mercury Online Food Retailers Shun Advertising.
``The banner ad model has become noneffective,'' said Steve Taormina, Wild Oats' Web site producer. ``Click-through rates have fallen below 2 percent for banner ads.''
Advertising Age: BellSouth banner ads test customized cursor arrows.
The cursor changes into the animated logo when users move over a BellSouth banner on a Flycast affiliate site...
Builder.Com: Internet 2.
The key qualities of I2 are that it's faster, with data transfer rates in the gigabits, and it's more reliable, because it has safeguards to make sure data packets are delivered.
NewMedia Magazine: Customers Are From Venus.
Rather than relying solely on "the Big Guy's" multimillion-dollar relationship re-engineering ideas, Internet teams should take charge on understanding customer relationships by tackling smaller projects.
Computer Currents: RCA Backs Off From WebTV Claims.
"The whole idea of buying components (in the consumer electronics market) is very much still a common practice."
Business Week: Should You Pay for a Privacy Seal of Approval?
Privacy-seal programs are mainly selling their "brand" of business integrity.
Forbes: The fight over rights.
When rights--the legal rules that govern the use of and payments for intellectual property--meet digital media, the result is chaos.
Wired News: Domain Name Glitch Plagues Users.
Some domain name handles started disappearing over the weekend, and Network Solutions has yet to determine how many domain name holders have been affected.
TechWeb: Compaq To Reauthorize Internet Channel.
For example, companies seeking consumer authorization will need to set up a toll-free customer support number staffed by manufacturer-trained representatives...
TechWeb: Webspective Distributes Content To Inktomi.
The enhancement lets companies deploy so-called reverse proxy caching, in which selected content is pushed into a Web cache and served from there.
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