June 2, 1999
ClickZ: Give It to Me NOW!
Everyone expects instant gratification, at least informationally speaking. Yet many Internet marketers are stuck in traditional fulfillment land, sending materials via paper mail instead of email or on the web.
ClickZ: The Consumer Backlash.
Every time I click another link on the web these days I feel like I'm being over-promised and under-delivered.
InfoWorld: Oracle gains ASP partner, outlines future of e-business.
But the most up-and-coming businesses reshape their entire workflow around the Internet, in which customers enter their own orders or service requests...
News.Com: Web services start-ups map battle plans.
"We're about to enter a period of verticalization of the Web, with a proliferation of interest-specific content and e-commerce sites."
CIO WebBusiness: Get Fewer Hits.
It takes a heretic in today's Web climate to tell your CEO that the less time customers spend on your site, the more satisfied they may be. It takes a radical to actually do something about it...
Editor & Publisher: Publishers Encouraged to Create 'Fourth Media' Ventures.
Steve Outing. Those companies that will succeed to the greatest degree in the Internet are those that can commit 100% of their human and financial resources to succeeding in the digital publishing environment.
Forbes: Treasure chest of ideas.
The result is a better return on research and development, but also an assault on the already overworked patent office and an increasingly litigious and obstructive high tech business environment.
- Useit.Com: From December 27, 1998; Predictions for the Web in 1999.
Companies that don't claim their stake in the future will wake up in five years and discover that their competitors own all the patents they need to be on the Web.
News.Com: Amazon still a shelf above the competition.
"My belief is that as Amazon gets broader and broader at product assortment, it will get worse and worse at selling books..."
Web Page Design for Designers: Body Language 2.
The most important factors in any message, whether spoken, written or conveyed by purely visual means are just common sense, but still overlooked by many. I call them 'The Three Cs'. (Clarity, Conviction and Consistency).
Freedom Forum: Let's learn how to cover technology.
Jon Katz. We can't seem to find a comfortable cruising speed when it comes to presenting technology to readers and viewers. Perhaps that's because we've thought so little about it.
News.Com: New slew of tech toys on Intel's agenda.
"Alternative Internet access devices--Web phones, set-top boxes--those devices are going to have a hard time for the next three years, because the Web is immature..."
News.Com: Excite@Home mulls dial-up strategy.
Some analysts and people familiar with the company believe Excite@Home should embrace slower-speed dial-up technology--and continue developing Web content for lower-speed connections...
Interactive Week: Multicast's Real Value.
There's a growing sentiment that the greater value of IP multicast will be unlocked with Web content replication.
Business Week: Closed, Gone to the Net.
What kinds of companies are making the leap with both feet? Those most vulnerable to being squeezed out by the Net--traditional middlemen such as travel and insurance agencies, which can broker information more widely, quickly, and cheaply over the Net.
Interactive Week: Yahoo! Takes Online Anywhere.
Online Anywhere will become part of Yahoo!'s broader Yahoo! Everywhere strategy that aims to deliver the company's content and applications to a broad range of devices beyond the PC...
News.Com: Sprint put the Web in your pocket.
Under the deal, Sprint's wireless subscribers can use a range of cobranded Yahoo Internet services, including email, accessing an address book and calendar, and reading financial, sports, and weather news...
CIO WebBusiness: Lawrence Lessig- Animal Farm Revisited.
Q&A with Lawrence Lessig. The extent to which behavior in cyberspace can be regulated depends upon the architecture of cyberspace. Not just the protocols of TCP/IP, but the full set of customs and technologies that define cyberspace.
[clip]: E-Commerce and Auto Parts.
The first of its kind, the website puts every part and accessory for every Hyundai car on the Web for purchase. Available to Hyundai's dealers and repair shops and individual customers, the website could very well revolutionize the repair shop industry.
Business Week: Terry Drayton's Net Heavies Could Help HomeGrocer Deliver.
Drayton sees HomeGrocer linking up with Amazon.com and its strategic partners -- drugstore.com and pets.com -- to deliver some of their products and perhaps collect a fee.
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