June 8, 1999
FEED Magazine: The real and the pretend Internet.
Clay Shirky. The internet is the locus of the future economy, and its effect is the wholesale transfer of information and choice (read: power and leverage) from producer to consumer.
Stating the Obvious: Just One Question for Christopher Locke.
The same kind of deconstruction that's being practiced on the web today just for the hell of it, is also seeping onto the company intranet.
News.Com: UCLA plans sweeping Net-use study.
"Nobody did this for TV in the '40s, and this technology will dwarf the power of TV. Television is mostly about leisure time, but this is about work, school, and play..."
SJ Mercury: Creating Web-based documents: a new way of thinking and doing.
Dan Gillmor. People are beginning to grasp the inherent advantages of another method: creating and updating Web-based documents on the Web itself, running Internet-based tools from inside a browser.
TechWeb: IBM GM On E-Business: Do Or Die.
"The Internet is neither a fad nor a small segment of the market that can be ignored," Zollar said. "Pick a niche and do it better than anybody else."
devhead: Power To The People.
Given such a powerful democratic medium, is it any wonder that governments everywhere are grappling with how to censor, control, and restrict the Internet and the web?
W3C: Web Architecture: Describing and Exchanging Data.
Now that the Web has reached critical mass as a medium for human communication, the next phase is to build the "Semantic Web".
ClickZ: Make Your Site Customer-centric.
Customer-centric web sites not only study the relationships between various products, they also study the relationships between customers and products or services.
News.Com: Start-up puts animation tools on the Web.
"What we've built is an architecture that lets Web designers access the multimedia hardware on the user's machine directly," said WildTangent chief executive Alex St. John. "We've just made every Web designer a game developer."
Industry Standard: VW Puts Brakes on U.K. Online Car Sales.
"My reaction was, boy, Volkswagen America is going to be very upset with these guys in the U.K.," said Lorimer. "VW America is one of the most progressive car manufacturers in the U.S. They have been savvy about the Internet."
DaveNet: Office 2000 is Not Fun.
Office doesn't really embrace the web because the web isn't just about HTTP, HTML and XML -- in a larger sense the web is about fun!
Wired News: How Fast Is Your E-Broker?
Critics of the new survey, however, say it doesn't take into account factors like layout and ease of use, which play a big role in determining how quickly customers can complete their trades.
TechWeb: Consumers Need Global E-Commerce Protection.
The biggest challenges to electronic commerce are global connectivity between merchants and consumers, multi-currency settlements, language barriers, and legal uncertainty of which jurisdiction has responsibility for the transaction...
Business Week: TNT: A Dutch Courier That Could Be Cyber Dynamite.
The strategy has European market analysts jazzed. TNT is using its monopoly and old postal business "as a cash cow to fund all sorts of electronic services..."
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