May 8, 1999
NY Times: Making an Ally of Piracy.
Excerpt of Jaron Lanier's manifesto, "Piracy Is Your Friend." The real question should not be, "How can I keep my fans from hearing my music for free?" It should be, "How can I best make money from my fans?" Those are two different questions.
InfoWorld: Internetworkers need `synchronets' to help them work and travel.
Chief among the infrastructure requirements for effective internetworking is the capability to rapidly and easily synchronize data stored in different locations, across what I will call (for lack of a better term) "synchronets."
Advertising Age: Portal envy.
Alan Siegel and Andrew Zolli. The portals are presented with an incredible opportunity to innovate. The first one that stops senselessly piling on commodity technologies and delivers site visitors a true branded and integrated experience will reap extraordinary rewards.
[clip]: Picture-Perfect Data Mining.
While spreadsheet tools have long allowed users to chart and graph data in 2-D and 3-D, today's advanced visualization technologies incorporate aspects of data mining and computer modeling...
InfoWorld: Residential broadband deployment will bring convergence down to earth.
Pendse's answers are that product complexity drives abandonment. Shoppers too often reach a point online where they can't ask a quick question of a knowledgeable human, so they punt.
[clip]: Revolutionary Thinking.
Q&A with Guy Kawasaki. I can't say how many plans we read that say, "We'll have great content, get a lot of eyeballs, sell sponsorships and advertising and see what happens." It's got to be a little more lucid than that.
Industry Standard: Too Much Bandwidth.
Service providers must exploit the window of opportunity and bring to market high-value-added applications that enable "teleliving" and "telecommerce."
Upside: Will Consumers Ignore Ebates.com?
...ebates.com executives were camped out in a suite full of room-service carts, jawing with journalists about the thought of paying customers rebates of up to 25 percent for each item they buy online.
Industry Standard: Netmogul! The Musical.
Carl Steadman. "I've got a dream! An Internet dream! Well, it's more of a scheme! My Internet dream!"
| 