May 15, 1999
InfoWorld: Corporate portals help early users control data deluge.
If the intranet was developed as a place where corporate content could reside, the portal is designed to dynamically organize that information.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of the rapidly growing flow of press releases and PR email.
The Web is a new publishing paradigm with eternal archives (at least on welll-designed sites) so it may require new thinking among PR strategists to learn how to best deal with persistent publishing...
Computer Shopper: When Freedom Hurts.
In response to content creators' fears, some vendors are creating digital-rights management products, which can be viewed as fail-over protection for our collective common sense.
Computer Shopper: Cisco and Motorola to Create Open IP Architecture.
This type of network could deliver truly unified messaging and allow the consumer to use a single Web-based mailbox to send and receive voice mail, e-mail, and fax messages.
SJ Mercury: Valley is long on ideas, but desperately short on management talent.
Dan Gillmor. Maybe there's a better question: Are there that many good companies that can turn the good ideas into real businesses?
Forbes ASAP: Startup turning browsers into buyers.
"It turns a web site into a geographical place and contextualizes the experience," says John Hanke, president of The Big Network. "People can shop together. We think it will really appeal to the ICQ generation."
InfoWorld: Internet Epidemiology meets Pay-As-We-Go at signs of slowing growth.
Bob Metcalfe. The reality is that without payment systems such as SoftLock.com's, a lot of premium online content will be not free, but unavailable.
NY Times: Small Campaign Web Sites May Collide With Election Laws.
Critics of the FEC argue that applying existing election law to the Internet will stanch the cascade of political expression that the medium makes possible.
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