August 11, 1999
FEED Magazine: Why China's Internet Problem Is A Lot Like South Carolina's.
Clay Shirky. Fritz Hollings, Senator of South Carolina, and Zhu Rongji, Premier of China, have the same problem -- the internet has made their governments too small.
Upside: Swapping E-commerce Partners.
To assume that selling on the Web is always direct misses one of the most important aspects of online business-- the affiliate network.
ClickZ: Stealth Under The Radar.
The result is that many web sites, done correctly, represent the entire company (and the brand) better and more accurately than the traditional advertising does. It touches all aspects of the company, making an impact on everything from customer service to tech support to sales to marketing.
Salon: Artists do the rights thing.
It's the question of "online rights" that has labels and artists concerned. Some record labels are already working to ensure that they have control over all of their artists' Web sites, revenues and online properties.
MSDN Online: Make a Deeper Web Connection.
Robert Hess. The game is all about increased functionality and leveraging the tools at hand to get there. Today, the Internet has turned into an exciting tool that is underutilized by most non-browser applications.
Upside: Like Printing Money.
While printing one-of-a-kind bar codes will first be used in stamps, the technology also could allow consumers to print their own concert and movie tickets after purchasing them online...
ZDNN: IBM has the e-ticket.
Electronic ticketing has taken hold in North America, where a growing percentage of U.S. travelers are choosing them over paper to speed airport check-in procedures and to protect themselves against lost tickets.
Wired News: Yahoo in the Palm of Your Hand.
Vishwanath's group is trying to carrying the Yahoo name beyond the Web browser. The group's latest effort is sparse, but does place the portal among a small group of large Web players toying with wireless content.
CNN: End of URLs as we know 'em?
For end users, the standard means no longer having to remember or type in a series of dots, dashes and backslashes in order to find the information they need.
Red Herring: Real money for RealNames.
Mr. Teare says that when trademark and branding disputes arise, RealNames will decide who gets control of common terms based on the "user expectation test." "Our prime directive is not to mess with the user..."
Forbes: Narus knows what you are doing on the network.
Stone and Narus founder (and now chief executive) Ori Cohen are convinced that it is critical for the new-generation telecos and Internet service providers to know exactly what type of traffic is flowing on their networks.
Upside: AT&T's Dirty Handshake.
By opening its services to AOL, it quiets the loudest proponent of an open-access system, while doing nothing to actually open up its systems to the other ISPs who want to offer services.
ChannelSeven: Sprint Loads the Big Guns In Wireless Broadband Battle.
That means Sprint will actively and aggressively present its MMDS (Multipoint Media Delivery System) as a viable and low-cost option to small businesses and consumers, directly competing against ADSL, DSL and cable modems.
Business Week: Oracle: Practicing What It Preaches.
Today, the E-engineering of Oracle is Ellison's newest passion. He has ordered his managers to radically revamp the way they use computers and the Internet. His deadline: The end of 2000.
Red Herring: Can Webvan deliver?
Other analysts say major supermarkets are quietly watching the Webvan experiment. If it works, they say, the supermarkets could rapidly build e-commerce sites, put their logos on delivery trucks, and take a lead in the market.
PC World: Do Teens Determine Internet's Future?
"Just as previous generations internalized the automobile and television, integrating it into ever aspect of their adult lives, today's 16- to 22-year-olds will become the first Net-powered generation."
Wired News: 3-D Imaging for the Rest of Us.
If Siggraph's onsite computer laboratory is any indication, a convergence of CAD/CAM, 3-D scanning, and printing technologies is rapidly changing the way products and works of art are created.
ZDNN: Cyberspace: The future is now?
Their project -- dubbed, somewhat obtusely, the Graph Evaluation Language or GEL -- aims to build a technology that can be used to create multi-user 3-D worlds where people can interact on the Internet.
Wired News: Mousing with Good Vibrations.
But Logitech and Immersion want to carry the concept to other mouse-intensive applications. From Web surfing to graphic design and business applications, the company thinks tactile feedback can be tied to productivity enhancement.
Wired News: Pictures at a Virtual Exhibition.
Welcome to Siggraph's Millennium Motel, where conference attendees experience mind-bending examples of where emerging technologies are taking art, entertainment, games, and society.
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