May 21, 1999
Business Week: Computing for the People.
Q&A with MIT's Michael Dertouzos. The way revolutions are made is by truly bringing this stuff into our lives. For example, the motor. You never say "motor," you say "refrigerator" to keep your food fresh, you say "car" for going to pick up your kids.
Upside: Bribing Your Customers.
Brand loyalty still exists, especially among certain consumer goods. But it is a dying concept, and the Web is helping to kill it off. Good riddance.
Freedom Forum: Electric Media: Part 2 — weblogs.
Jon Katz. Weblogs are a signicant step in the evolutionary chain of new media. They show us many of the things about the interactive culture that younger people like.
ClickZ: Mommy, Where Does Content Come From?
Spend enough time on the web, and pretty soon you start to see the same information over and over again.
Advertising Age: Web ad disclosures examined.
Marketers and ad agency executives attending the hearing worried that too strict a tie to print rules would, on one side, eliminate much of the Internet's usefulness...
Builder.Com: 10 Reasons No One Is Buying Anything on Your Site.
It's relatively easy to keep improving your Web site--and your e-commerce strategy. More to the point, it's essential if you want to survive in e-commerce.
Industry Standard: Sony Tries to Lock in Artists.
According to sources close to Sony, the label has slipped a clause into its contracts that gives the label control over an artist's official site...
Wired News: Web Museum, Yes, But Is It Art?
Stone defines Web art as "anything created for the Web, with a function that must be Web-related.
Upside: Hollywood Gets Three Dimensions.
[Rick Noll, founder of Activeworlds.com] "Three-dimensional worlds are the next generation of the Internet, as opposed to clicking through pages..."
AtNewYork: As Agency Model Wanes, Web Shops Look to New Ways.
Jason Chervokas. The challenges are enormous: First of all, interactive agencies by and large make their money in one-time fees for project work.
Forbes ASAP: Discussion group companies' business models are diverging.
"Consumers don't go to a site specifically to participate in a discussion group," says Munroe. "They go to a site like Amazon to purchase books and then get lured to participate in a discussion."
News.Com: Copyright bill may protect database owners.
With the proliferation of the Internet and CD-ROMs, which make it easier to copy information, database assemblers are lobbying for new safeguards for their current businesses and future ventures.
SJ Mercury: Intel develops `2001'-style portable computer.
``Just the fact that these devices are consumer products now is so different from the vision of 2001, and it's so different from what people's expectations were even a decade ago..."
PC World: Why Do Giant Sites Keep Crashing?
Unexpectedly high demand keeps overloading systems pieced together without sufficient testing, say analysts and companies that run the sites.
Wired News: Palm VII: 'A Definite Lemon'.
"Hardware and software elegance have been hallmarks of Palm products since the beginning. However, if the content of what comes in the box is a watered-down version of the Net, I believe that's going to turn [users] off."
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