June 9, 1999
Upside: Web Ads Get Smart.
"[Users] don't want to relinquish control of their computer. The viewer decides what comes next." And that, according to Pittman, helps dictate how you advertise and market to the audience.
USA Today: Web creator displeased with his creation.
[Tim Berners-Lee] ''I wanted to create what I call an interactive space where everybody can edit,'' he says. ''And I started saying 'Interactive.' Then I started reading in the media that 'The Web is great because it was interactive,' '' meaning, you could click. Now, this was not what I meant by interactivity, so I started calling it intercreativity.''
NY Times: A Hitch to Marital Web Bliss.
[Leo J. Hindery Jr., CEO of AT&T Broadband & Internet Services] Hindery has publicly questioned whether At Home should be so closely tied to a single source of news, e-mail and other services.
High Five: Profile of Jennifer Fleming.
Once we've tasted those things on the Web, we'll begin to demand them elsewhere. I'm frustrated with some of the limitations of broadcast media, so I think this is something that will have to change...
SJ Mercury: NBC, TiVo to team up on digital video recorders.
It may also air more sought-after shows outside the network's prime time hours -- not to attract an audience then, but to provide more fodder for the TiVo recorders.
TechWeb: Intel Demonstrates PC Of The Future.
Information would be displayed on the desktop in 3-D information hubs that could be ordered and reordered using voice-based commands. No Internet browser is necessary: Information is gathered and presented using intelligent agents.
TechWeb: CEO Says Wireless Net's Coming To Every Room.
Mike Comstock, senior vice president of e-commerce at package-delivery company DHL, said that for e-commerce to reach the masses, there needs to be a fundamental shift in the way products ordered over the Internet are delivered to consumers.
InfoWorld: Intel exec extols I-commerce as wave of business future.
Maloney stressed that in business-to-business electronic commerce, the merchant is solely responsible for a customer's experience, regardless of what kind of system the customer might use, since other merchants are only a click away.
TechWeb: Tech Guru: People Are Key To Knowledge Mgm't.
"It's [knowledge management] the last gasp of industrial engineering" said Prusak. "It assumes a business is a machine and judgment and understanding can be replaced by an algorithm."
TechWeb: E-Commerce Threatens LAN With Heavy Load.
Inktomi sees a new market emerging in Europe, one where companies with its experience in the United States can sell back-office transaction processing to high volume e-commerce sites.
Internet Week: Chipshot.com Hits The Green With Globalization.
But the new site had to do more than simply translate English words into Japanese. It needed a new design and message that took into consideration the differences in culture, language, currency and commercial laws.
W3C: Common Markup for Web Micropayment Systems Working Draft.
This document proposes an extensible and interoperable way to embed in a Web page all the information necessary to initialize a micropayment.
News.Com: Sony's digital path leads to record stores.
In a deal with Digital On-Demand, the entertainment and consumer electronics giant is hoping to preserve its relationships with brick-and-mortar retailers while continuing its drive for digital music delivery in cyberspace.
Industry Standard: Wedding Site Enjoys Its First Time.
Unlike competitors that work directly with manufacturers and wholesalers, Della & James is positioning itself as an extension of retailers' existing wedding-gift services...
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