June 5, 1999
Web Review: Information Architecture and Corporate Strategy: The Tail Wags the Dog.
It's really impossible to develop a quality information architecture, much less implement a decent site, without having a clear picture of the business model that is driving the project.
Interactive Week: Can Wal-Mart Be The Next Amazon.com?
Because of its "fully linked supply chain," the company knows where every item of merchandise is, almost in real-time. "They have great IT [information technology] capabilities," Tenser said. "It's really a matter of putting a Web front-end on what its information systems can already handle."
NY Times: Library Conference Examines Preservation of Digital Works.
Around the world, research librarians are devoting much of their attention these days to thinking through the complexities of how to preserve humanity's cultural patrimony in an electronic age.
Multi-University Research Laboratory Seminars: Invisible Interfaces.
At Xerox PARC, the "Extreme UI" group has been investigating ways to enrich our connection with the computer: to investigate new interaction techniques which use everyday skills and the physical affordances of the devices themselves.
ZDNN: Boycott! Euros urge Net-free day.
Rather than making full use of the medium -- communicating with others, gathering information or just shopping -- the fees encourage people to simply hop online and snatch what they need.
InfoWorld: With AT&T leading the charge, it's full speed ahead for CTM Internet service.
The chairman of a federal commission with jurisdiction told Vortex that he will not stop AT&T from deploying CTMs for Internet access or insist that AT&T let other ISPs resell its CTM services.
Red Herring: Launch Media swings into big bandwidth.
...Launch will announce a strategic partnership with Road Runner, the high-speed Internet service provider, to provide an array of broadband-enabled music content to Road Runner subscribers.
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