June 29, 1999
Upside: We Are Not Content!
I cannot wait until the day that creative artists are valued as highly as engineers. The Web will make that happen, as art becomes an increasingly important selling point in the business world.
Web Review: Emotional Branding Through Digital Storytelling.
Q&A with Dana Atchley. "What does this product mean to you?" We use digital stories to evoke an emotional response from the customer, then we build a community of shared stories by these same customers.
- Industry Standard: From April 9, 1999; Are You Experienced?
In the Internet Economy, delivering goods and services is no longer enough. Internet companies must do more: They need to stage experiences.
- SJ Mercury: From April 3, 1999; Digital Storytelling
Forbes: Word-of-modem.
"Just herding millions of customers into the corral isn't a strategy," says Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. "In the landgrab of the Internet, large companies are buying reach—but they won't buy everybody."
News.Com: Andover.net scoops up seminal Slashdot site.
A larger group of people around the world scour the Internet for interesting news, then post them on Slashdot in short, hyperlink-rich summaries to spark discussion.
Wired News: CmdrTaco on Slashdot Sale.
Q&A with Rob Malda of Slashdot. We cover a lot of these topics and we just barely gloss over them. But the fundamental nature of the thing is not going to change.
ZDNN: Will bandwidth be free?
The possibility that bandwidth could become free is based on the exponential growth in capacity on communications networks...
SJ Mercury: Xerox In Manufacturing Pact For Electronic Paper.
Xerox Corp. will announce Tuesday that it has signed a manufacturing agreement with 3M in a move to turn one of its research projects -- electronic paper -- into a commercial product.
PC World: New IP Gets Push.
More than 20 telecommunications providers and information technology vendors will announce the formation of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new protocol...
Wired News: Yahoo: Your House Is My House.
To create or update GeoCities pages, members must agree to a contract that gives Yahoo broad rights over their intellectual property.
News.Com: Webcast audiences look, listen, and buy.
The survey is one of the first to look at the general Webcast viewing audience, which has been growing year to year.
ClickZ: Beyond the Banner Extravaganza.
Forrester's synchronized advertising model proposes that the mixing and matching of online and offline media will shorten the buying cycle and eliminate the disconnection between awareness and purchase.
[clip]: The Data Menagerie.
Q&A with Bill Inmon of Pine Cone System. A data miner is similar to an explorer, but whereas the explorer finds information and creates hypotheses, the data miner is a person who either proves or disproves the hypothesis itself.
ZDNN: Compaq, CMGI seal AltaVista deal.
The $2.3 billion stock swap calls for Compaq to keep a 17 percent stake in the portal site.
Business Week: A Net Bookseller's Biggest Edge Could Be...Bookkeeping.
The result: Money-losing Net companies get to take larger write-offs today -- and can set themselves up for a rosier future of low costs and big revenue. Meanwhile, older brick-and-mortar rivals face a tougher standard.
DDJ TechNetCast: Interview with Andrew Mundi.
Real streamed video. Andrew Mundi, User Interface Designer with @Home Network.
Forbes ASAP: The rights stuff: registering copyrights online.
...the Library of Congress are now developing a new system called CORDS, which will streamline a labor-intensive process by enabling electronic copyright registration over the Internet.
InfoWorld: Hardware vendors trade systems for revenues.
In return for a percentage of sales conducted by an e-commerce site, both companies have said they would be willing to provide the hardware for free or for a nominal fee.
Wired News: Giving Voice to Net Security.
In the first large-scale deployment of its kind, HSN's speech-print service will allow frequent shoppers to dispense with passwords and personal identification numbers, the company said.
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