May 14, 1999
New Scientist: Paper goes electric.
In the US, two groups of researchers--one in California, the other on the East Coast--have created electronic versions of paper and ink.
Wired News: When Tech and Music Collide.
According to a source who attended the SDMI meeting last week, participants discovered that the Internet and music industries have precious little in common.
Wired News: Bringing the Web Closer
...duplicates content from popular Web sites -- a news site like CNN Interactive, for example -- onto the Akamai network. Intelligence built into the server network determines when and where a site's content should be relocated.
CNNfn: WWW Conference - IBM Search Engine "Trawls" Web.
Entitled "Trawling the Web for Emerging Cyber Communities," the paper describes an approach that uses patterns of interconnections among Web sites to discover communities that one might not expect.
Business Week: Paul Allen's E-Commerce Play: Bring the Buying Club to the Net.
What if you could gather consumers together on the Net, concentrate their demand for certain products, and get volume discounts for those goods?
SJ Mercury: Yahoo has designs on corporate market.
...it will collaborate with Tibco Software Inc. to offer businesses an easy way to create intranets, or Web-based corporate networks.
Advertising Age: SportsLine USA develops way to create loyalty and grow database.
SportsLine hopes the program will help solve two of the Web's most vexing problems today: how to turn occasional site visitors into loyal customers, and how to learn enough about those customers to market to them on a one-to-one basis.
ClickZ: Can I Buy You A Drink?
I believe that incentives and points are great ways to attract attention. But I don't think they have what it takes to create and maintain customer loyalty.
Upside: No News, Just Deja.
...Deja Ratings is barely better than the kind of well-rounded consumer advice you can get from talking to strangers on any form of mass transit.
Forbes ASAP: Recipe for e-commerce success.
RoweCom Inc. is using the net to quietly transform the way corporations and institutions purchase and manage their subscriptions to magazines and professional journals.
Web Review: The State of Streaming Media.
Streaming media tools and technologies are tumbling down the pipeline toward us now.
ZDNN: Overcoming the Web's credibility gap.
The Suite is essentially a workflow management application, but it includes a certification server that lets users attach a digital certificate to the content.
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