June 10, 1999
Red Herring: Baby steps.
But the biggest obstacle faced by wireless Internet services is that none of the U.S. companies involved are suggesting a realistic, economical application for the technology.
NY Times: Coming of Age in Palo Alto.
"Usually people say, 'What is an anthropologist doing here?' " Dr. Nardi said. "But when I explain that I study how people use technology in order to get new ideas for products and services, it instantly makes sense."
Salon: Can history survive Silicon Valley?
"We run the risk of, 200 years from now, knowing less about this place and this point in history than we know about 15th century Germany, where the printing press was invented..."
Freedom Forum: Future of journalism gets uncertain forecast.
Newsrooms are being "democratized" by the Web, she said. From E-mail to listservs, the Internet allows journalists to become less isolated in their jobs, in turn "forcing us to accept responsibility for what we do..."
Wired News: E-Postage Battle Looms.
In the meantime, the US Postal Service, which must approve all PC postage services, is maintaining a paternal distance by officially refusing to interfere with or attempt to resolve any disputes that might arise between its private patent holders...
ClickZ: The Next Wave: Hybrid Portals.
An EIP, like a consumer portal, aggregates information into one easy-to-use page. The difference is that this information is relevant to the employees of a particular company or to people who do business with that company.
ZDNN: Lycos search engine gags on Yahoo!
Searchers who use Lycos' Web site to find information about archrival Yahoo! are destined to be disappointed. Instead of providing links to related sites, Lycos users are taken to a page promoting Lycos.
Wired News: Web Publishing the Microsoft Way.
Web-standards advocates worry Microsoft's proprietary extensions could Balkanize the Web. And some experts say documents created with Office's "save-to-Web" feature fail standards-validation tests.
News.Com: MSN: From content to software sales.
Matt Kursh, business unit manager of MSN, said it is "conceivable" that Microsoft will strike partnership deals with existing businesses and develop what he calls a "broad-based Switzerland approach" to its Web strategy.
News.Com: eBay plays hardball with feedback ratings.
eBay claims these ratings are proprietary and cannot be cited on other person-to-person auction sites, a stance that underscores larger, controversial issues of who owns data on a Web site.
RCFoC: The "E-Ticket" Ride Of All Time!
What will be written about the Web, 62 years from now? I suspect that unlike the first fax, this future history will not show that the Web faded out...
Industry Standard: Net Economy Pegged at $301 Billion.
Funded by Cisco Systems and conducted by researchers at the University of Texas, the project takes the first stab at quantifying the whole Internet-related sector of the economy...
SF Examiner: E-commerce is for real, venture capitalists say.
"Through customer-friendly Web sites, one-click shopping, cheap prices, online finance and banking and other innovations, consumers will have tremendous control over their purchases. "The customer will truly be king..."
News.Com: The new definition of Net success.
...despite many of the Web portals offering impressive reach statistics, I believe the aggregate time spent on their services each month is the true measure of the company's ability to generate revenue.
PC World: Panel Voices Speech Recognition Issues.
"We see a high drop-out rate among people buying the software," Fenn adds. "Up towards 50 percent do not continue using it." Several panelists admitted a reluctance to dictate to a computer.
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