May 23, 1999
Editor & Publisher: Online Content: Growing Up, At Last.
Steve Outing. Well, it looks like 1999 is the year when content slowly begins to get its due. At least two events are scheduled this summer and fall that will focus exclusively on Internet content issues.
Internet Week: Egghead.com: E-Mail Handles Many Queries.
The company realized that e-mail was the answer. "Call centers are expensive to staff and not what most customers prefer..."
Internet Week: Mergers At Net Speed.
Although corporate mergers have always placed a heavy burden on IT staffs, the combination of pure Web companies means an even more crucial role for technology. For Web commerce sites, IT decisions don't just support the core business, they are the core business.
SJ Mercury: IBM Opening Access To Software.
...IBM is providing free access to powerful software that can translate data into pictures, helping researchers find hidden meaning and uses for the mountains of otherwise mundane information gathered every day.
- IBM Almaden Research Center: IBM Visualization Data Explorer.
It employs a data-flow driven client-server execution model and provides a graphical program editor that allows the user to create a visualization using a point and click interface.
PC Magazine: Palm VII.
Received messages are stripped of attachments because of bandwidth limitations; you can choose to receive from 250 to 8,000 characters of any e-mail message.
Suck: Ad it up! Does that banner yet wave?
And subsequently, the search for some kind of magical online ad revenue Viagra, capable of invigorating limp CPMs, eliminating unseemly ad inventory buildup, and overcoming the many shortcomings of the banner ad, persists.
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