May 25, 1999
DaveNet: Edit This Page.
What's needed is a way to put the right software in front of the right keyboards, so people who love to write for the public and who do it well, have an easy way to do it.
SJ Mercury: Slashdot almost addictive for those who care.
Dan Gillmor. On one level, Slashdot is news. On another it's a discussion. But it transcends traditional genres and boundaries, creating something different -- and important -- from its mix of the old and new.
ClickZ: The Secrets Of Peppers and Roger.
"The biggest mistake companies make when implementing one to one," Peppers told me, "is underestimating the degree to which a web site needs to be integrated with other systems and data."
MacWeek: UCON show opens with Flash.
Burgess also said Macromedia plans to develop technology that will allow businesses to levy small charges for e-commerce transactions. "You don't have to charge much if millions of people are your marketplace..."
EE Times: Designers learn a thing or two from Barney.
"These technologies are helping to redefine computer-human interaction," said Druin. "They have an interface that begins the moment the child sees the toy..."
Red Herring: I'm gonna sue your ass!
Large, deep-pocketed companies have more resources to devote to legal and patent issues, and as a result, they have the power to obstruct, or even halt outright, the progress of smaller companies by embroiling them in legal disputes.
PC Week: Startup to propose alternatives to Internet Exchange Points.
...will reveal its intent by year's end to construct three new domestic "Internet Business Exchanges," where ISPs, content providers and other Internet vendors can locate their equipment and exchange traffic.
Microsoft Press Release: Four New Initiatives Build on Vision of "Knowledge Workers Without Limits".
Essentially, these portals will use Microsoft Office 2000 to build windows into external, corporate and personal data allowing for a complete set of information from inside and outside the company.
Wired News: E-Books Taking Shape.
The Microsoft-led Open e-Book 1.0 draft specification is based on HTML and XML, and defines a standard method for formatting and delivering content to electronic reader devices.
Red Herring: Radical wireless technology may have its time.
According to the company, the system can carry several orders of magnitude more data than conventional communications technology and support an essentially unlimited number of users.
Computer World: The power of electronic play.
Don Tapscott. If they play their cards right, game creators could end up driving the entire entertainment, learning and IT industries.
Industry Standard: Inside the Department of E-commerce.
At the first-ever government conference devoted to measuring the economic impact of information technology, federal beancounters were the first to admit that current indicators don't work.
InfoWorld: Is Microsoft waffling on Wireless Application Protocol?
If Microsoft wants its Office and Exchange products to be accessed by these phones, it will have to make its products able to work with WAP.
ZDNN: WebTV: And then there were two.
On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif., company announced that Perlman would be the first to move on from WebTV...
ZDNN: Infoseek ready to get GOing.
Over the next year, the company plans to beef up the site up with such features as event guides, member directories, chat, instant messaging and an e-commerce platform.
Business Week: Hello, Internet.
But as wireless-data speeds increase 100-fold with the advent of so-called Third Generation technology, Net phone capabilities will soar.
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