May 19, 1999
Freedom Forum: Electric Media: Part 1.
Jon Katz. The e-community is an integral part of new media, and probably provides its most significant direction. It is, in most ways, the antithesis of conventional journalism — it's bottom-up, personal, passionately non-objective, anti-confrontational, and intensely linked and interactive.
PC World: Fit an Ocean on Your Palmtop.
AvantGo is betting that these devices--preferably, wireless versions of them--will be the newspapers of choice for mobile professionals.
Washington Post: Content vs. Commerce Online.
Despite Kinsley's sniping, Slate and Salon are soul mates. Both are taking on the so-far-confounding task of trying to build a profitable business around serious online commentary.
NY Times: Internet Fuels Revival of Centralized 'Big Iron' Computing.
Internet datacenters are sprouting up across the country in a sure sign of the trend toward once again housing information and computer power centrally -- a seeming reversal of the last two decades of computing.
ClickZ: Advertising In The Digital Age.
Being everything to everyone's not an asset. Try to keep things simple and be complete. The Net's a big, big place.
Industry Standard: How Not to Name your Net Play.
Each week, it seems, another Internet company changes its name, sacrificing millions of dollars in branding to be called something else.
Microsoft Press Release: Knowledge Workers Without Limits
...Gates outlined the concept of a "digital dashboard," which would provide people with a single place to go for all personal information such as email, schedule and tasks, as well as external data from web sites and corporate memory data...
IBM AlphaWorks: Micro Payments.
Micro Payments allows buyers, sellers and billing systems to sell content, information, and services over the Internet, for small amounts.
W3C: W3C Slides from WWW8.
From the W3C Track at the 8th International WWW Conference in Toronto.
Interactive Week: Gimme An E-Com Exec.
I think there's little question that a single, powerful change agent within the organization is needed to ensure that Web, computing and networking technologies; sale and marketing efforts; and payment, supply and delivery systems all work with a single purpose.
NY Times: Britain's Psion Challenges Microsoft in Developing 'Smart' Cell Phones.
The stakes are huge because the winner of this race will control the technology that cell phones and other high-speed wireless devices use to connect people to their e-mail, online stock brokers and myriad kinds of data on the Internet.
Industry Standard: Japan Explores Web Procurement
Japan's largest computer and consumer electronic vendors are turning to the Internet as part of broader moves to reduce their procurement and sales costs...
ChannelSeven: Jupiter: European Online households triple by 2003, but usage will remain low.
"Telephone usage is metered and that alone will continue to hold back the growth of online advertising, content and commerce ventures in Europe by inhibiting Internet usage."
ZDNN: AOL overhauls shopping center.
The company said today it will create Shop@AOL, a platform that dumps its current proprietary format in favor of using HTML.
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