May 29, 1999
InfoWorld: Information Age chairman digs into corporate portals.
Q&A with Richard Tanler, CEO of Information Advantage. All of the lessons of the Internet are being applied inside the corporation to create a new culture around information...
Forbes: Data mining.
Only recently, particularly with the rise of e-commerce on the Internet, has data mining re-emerged as a critical tool that no business or industry can afford to ignore.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of a problem with Amazon's classical music search interface.
The basic rule of ecommerce remains: make it really easy to buy - and you will sell!
Red Herring: Will new names spell consumer success?
Where technology companies once strove for unique monikers, a new breed of Internet companies is looking for names that are easy to remember -- and to type into a browser.
Red Herring: Alibris turns a new page in saturated Internet book market.
"Alibris understands that used and hard-to-find book selling is a natural online market. They are transforming this industry," he says. The Internet allows companies like Alibris to centralize a very fragmented market and broaden its consumer base.
Red Herring: Microsoft/Nextel deal boosts wireless Net apps.
The partnership is expected to yield one of the first systems for delivering a stripped-down version of Internet data to mobile phones using a wireless packet data network.
Advertising Age: Fun Pad mixes entertainment and advertising.
Fun Pad, a handheld wireless entertainment device that lets restaurant diners play games, browse rich-media content and order meals, was introduced last week by Entertainment Systems Technology...
InfoWorld: Affiliate marketing: the future of e-commerce or another hard sell?
Its principle is simple: A retailer signs up "affiliates," which sell the retailer's products on their own sites in return for a commission, usually between 8 and 15 percent of sales.
Wired News: Digital John Hancocks.
The Digital Signature Act of 1999 would make digital signatures as legally binding as penned John Hancocks.
NY Times: U.S. Copyright Proposal Supports Distance Learning.
...the United States Copyright Office is recommending a series of changes to federal law that it says would make it easier for educators to use copyrighted materials in classes taught over computer networks.
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