May 2, 1999
ZDNN: Will it be deja vu at Deja News?
Although no timeframe has been set for an IPO, sources close to the company say Deja News wants to raise enough capital to build the site into a leading Web brand, reworking it into a kind of chatty "Consumer Reports" of the Web.
Industry Standard: Brands Aren't Everything.
The lesson here applies to all emerging e-commerce markets: Web-based brands that stand the best chance of being relevant are the ones that simplify people's lives.
NY Times: Companies That Ignore Online Security Are Risking Costumers.
Many companies so fear being overtaken by a competitor who got to the Web first -- of "getting Amazoned," in the industry vernacular -- that they rush past security issues in their zeal to establish a Web site.
Editor & Publisher: Post-mortem: Web Coverage of the Columbine Tragedy.
Steve Outing. Be prepared for the worst, because if your Web site and network infrastructure can't handle the massive load when a major story breaks in your back yard, "you might as well not be writing anything" if no one can get to your site.
NY Times: New System for PC Music Stirs Recording Industry's Piracy Concerns.
...Real Networks, a leading maker of Internet audio software, plans to announce on Monday a system designed to let consumers copy, store and play audio CD's on personal computers.
NY Times: Alexa's Crusade Continues Under Amazon.com's Flag.
While questions remain about what Amazon.com intends to do with Alexa and its technology, Kahle insists that the acquisition will give his company plenty of independence.
Industry Standard: Turning Crime Into Commerce.
ThingWorld.com, says Barlow, has "turned what traditionally was the stealing of branded content into a business."
Forbes: Barbed wire on the Internet.
Trademarks aren't good enough for Jay Walker, the inventive mind behind Priceline.com. He wants a patent on his clever Internet ideas.
Salon: Words in your ear.
This is, of course, a problem for most of the new portable content devices on the market; the technology still doesn't offer totally intuitive content transfer from the Web.
Salon: Xerox PARC loses a "ubiquitous computing" guru.
Acting with the blazing speed typical of life in the core of techno-capitalism, the Stanford University Library has put up a memorial in honor of the recently deceased Mark Weiser, chief technologist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Mozilla.Org: Sidebar Flash Specification.
The Flash Panel is a panel in the Sidebar that contains up-to-the-minute information about events that are of direct importance to the current user...
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