April 29, 1999
Webmonkey: Market Research on the Web - Part 2.
So, when marketers and site developers need to know, with relative certainty, the answers to specific questions, they should turn to quantitative methods of research.
ClickZ: Who's Community Is It, Anyway?
..."Once your 'community' gets the idea that they are more 'cuustumahhhs' than community members, they are more likely to become ex-members of a community."
NY Times: Court Lays Down the Law on Labels for Web Sites.
A central question in the debate is whether a Web site operator may use the trademark of a competitor in a meta tag.
NY Times: GeoCities Members Complain Over Ads for Adult Sites.
Zanca said the company sees this as a service to users who want to find such adult material, but that those who do not seek it out are shielded from it.
Interactive Week: DejaNews Database Sparks Debate.
Rather than being a sinister plot to invade people's homes, the database likely sprang from an oversight that inadvertently led to its production...
News.Com: Intel peers into the home of the future.
Intel's Architecture Labs is in the process of developing a reference design for a new wireless tablet device that allows users to access local information and Internet content.
Red Herring: Competitors eye DoubleClick's success.
A rise in online advertising, coupled with the lack of established measurement tools, is likely to provide more opportunities for those looking to get a piece of the growing market for distributing online advertising to networks of Web sites...
News.Com: Microsoft's unofficial privacy chief.
Since then, Klein has been leading the company's efforts to turn out products that let consumers manage the amount of personal information they want to share with Web sites...
MSNBC: InterTrust pioneers in protecting copyrights, distribution online.
This approach, called superdistribution, turns consumers into potential co-publishers, and lets other middlemen divide up royalty payments and track usage data.
Red Herring: Why did Amazon.com buy?
While Alexa got buzz for winning deals to put its software into both Microsoft's and Netscape's browsers, it only recently embarked on a campaign to sell advertising.
Editor & Publisher: Reuters, Times Mirror Invest in Northern Light.
The investors see Northern Light's search technology as superior to large portal search engines because a vertical subject, such as travel can define each search engine.
News.Com: NSI keeps Centraal at arm's length.
But NSI has played its cards right, according to analysts, by taking a 10 percent stake in Centraal last December and by reselling RealNames on top of registering domain names...
News.Com: NSI's liability in trademark disputes reduced.
The case demonstrates the difficult balancing act courts face in enforcing competing rights in the registration of domain names.
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