May 10, 1999
Scientific American: Hypersearching the Web.
Members of the Clever Project at the IBM Almaden Research Center. We have developed an automatic technique for finding the most central, authoritative sites on broad search topics by making use of hyperlinks, one of the Web's most precious resources.
Scientific American: Your 0.002 Cents' Worth.
Once they got out of the pilot phase, micropayment schemes suffered from the dark side of the law of increasing returns: consumers didn't want to download unproved e-commerce software without an attractive range of things they could buy.
MSNBC: Can you picture your data? They can.
There’s been a flurry of recent attempts to transform the Internet, and even your home computer, from lists of files and folders that you open and close into physical space that you move around in.
NY Times: FTC Appoints Team to Monitor Advertising Online.
"When Web sites, particularly Web sites marketing products to consumers, link to other sites, what are the implications of that information? It could well be that the other sites are operated by the same marketers, but they fail to disclose that..."
NY Times: Hospitals Reaching New Patients Online.
...a handful of health care organizations have put their imprimaturs on information-rich Web sites accessible to anyone with a modem.
PC World: Who Will Rule Instant Messaging?
"Microsoft's purchase of Flash Communications [an instant messaging technology company] last year and Lotus's acquisition of both DataBeam and Ubique last year illustrate how serious they are about real-time software."
Interactive Week: Google On Searching: Do It Fast.
Brin thinks the search engines of yore - now known as portals - were led astray by their focus on page views. "Page views are a red herring..."
Interactive Week: Search Engines Chase Profit.
Ad revenue is not the panacea it was once proclaimed, and there's the escalating cost of getting attention.
News.Com: Microsoft, Nextel in $600 million deal.
Microsoft today said it will take a stake in Nextel Communications and announced plans for a new wireless portal via its MSN network of Internet services.
SJ Mercury: Yahoo's surfing team sets course for content.
The ``uniquely valuable thing'' boils down to editorial judgment, in Srinivasan's view. Basically, she says, Yahoo's surfers operate much as a newspaper or magazine would.
Salon: MSN UK's "naked" experiment: E-shop or die!
Scientific behavioral study or shameless marketing ploy?
Interactive Week: Web Traffic Stats Don't Add Up.
"The real story is that measurement is all over the map," said Jim Nail, online advertising analyst at Forrester Research. "In terms of getting reliable data, we're nowhere yet."
Interactive Week: Broadband On The Run.
...content publishers today are on the hunt for the right formula for delivering a new type of online experience to users with network links that can shuttle data at 10 times the speed of today's users of dial-up links to the Web.
Business Week: Web Advertising's Newest Tool: Your Cursor.
"I suspect that the first few times consumers run across it, they'll find it entertaining and appealing," he says. "But [a changing cursor] will lose its appeal if it becomes too common. Too much of it can be confusing and annoying..."
DaveNet: Dreams or Teams?
To the user the music business is simple but the content is complex. Today we're using the Silent Web. I can't wait for singing and talking sites.
Industry Standard: NBC Snaps Up Xoom.
The new venture, to be called NBC Internet, combines the Snap.com venture of CNET and NBC with Xoom.com and NBC Interactive, which includes NBC.com.
News.Com: Pointcast acquired by Idealab.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But sources peg the price at about $10 million in cash and stock...
TechWeb: German RealNames System Debuts On Fireball.
In the fast-growing overseas market, he said, Centraal has an opportunity to train millions of novice users in the RealNames way of surfing the Web.
Industry Standard: Small Shops Battle Back With BookSense.
The ABA's weapon is an e-commerce initiative called BookSense.com – a storefront provided by the ABA to its members that will contain a common, fully searchable database of 1.6 million books and a means to purchase those books...
Business Week: The Delivery Dilemma Could Box In E-Commerce.
"If the residential delivery marketplace is to become a reality of the E-commerce revolution, then most companies will be required to service it..."
News.Com: Revamped Deja News debuts.
"Ads aren't doing it for them. Subscriptions don't seem to work on the Web, with very few exceptions. So what's left? E-commerce."
Internet World: What Do You Name a Net Firm? Hurry, the Choices Are Dwindling.
"They cannot find a name that's also an available URL, or if they do, it's something similar to a competitor's registered service mark, and they can't use it."
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