May 13, 1999
News.Com: Peapod delivers more than groceries.
"Groceries as the core enables you to put trucks on the street," said Peapod chief executive Andrew Parkinson. "Then you can add other products to deliver, and you can do it cheaper than to drop-ship them," a reference to using an overnight delivery service like UPS or Federal Express.
TechWeb: Amateurs Lead Web Community-Building.
Rheingold said high-quality communication, a registration process, and trust are keys to online community, as well as a technology that engenders a free flow of conversation, not just a bulletin board.
TechWeb: IBM Guru Warns Of Explosive Net Growth.
Patrick said the new standard needs to be approved to expand an IP address system that is limited by its 32-bit size to a total of 4 billion addresses for the end spots on a network. With the new system, every proton in the universe can get an IP address...
NY Times: Prime Web Addresses Still Elude Some Companies.
The concern is that having a less-than-obvious Web address could be costly as the Web becomes a mass medium and corporate sites turn into virtual storefronts.
Red Herring: Keynote wants to be Kleenex of the Net.
....she's saying that the site performance measurement service may become so well-branded that the name Keynote will become synonymous with performance measurement...
TechWeb: Fraudsters Attack Internet Ad Model.
The scientists said people were embarking on new methods to cheat on click-through ad models while others were putting up bogus advertisements to embarrass vendors.
Builder.Com: Critique of TheStreet.Com
As a content provider, I am fascinated by any company that actually gets people to pay for its site's content.
RCFoC: The Potential European Internet Explosion!
How might European Internet use (and Ecommerce) explode if ISP prices go down and, more importantly, people can surf for hours on end without any phone charges?
News.Com: Amazon details its shopping habits.
Amazon.com spent $250 million to acquire Alexa Internet, a substantial sum for a company whose net revenue was little more than $370,000 last year...
Wired News: EFalcon Preys on Credit Fraud.
For the last six years, Falcon, software based on neural networks, has been analyzing the purchasing patterns of more than 260 million credit cards. Over time, it has learned to spot the telltale signs of fraud.
Freedom Forum: Immediacy, original content make online news for real, journalists say.
Eroding that skepticism today is a marriage of immediacy and original information, said Heller and fellow panelists during the discussion, "Online News: What Is It Good For?"
PC Week: 100 innovators in Internet technology.
This PC Week Fast-Track tallies the North American companies that are most aggressively using Web-based technologies to restructure themselves and their industries.
Freedom Forum: Proposed U.S. government Web site regulations approved
Recommendations for strict new federal regulations to make government and some private Web sites more accessible to the disabled were approved unanimously yesterday...
ZDNN: Are Web auctions classified killers?
Newspapers -- which earn as much as 40 percent of their revenue from classified advertising -- are nervous about what the growing industry might mean for their future.
News.Com: Sears to sell appliances on new Web site.
The appliance retailer said in a statement that it will sell more than 2,000 brand name appliances over the Internet, which is more than four times the size of the company's nearest online competitor.
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