August 24, 1999
SJ Mercury: Nothing simulated about American Air's legal inanity.
Dan Gillmor. Anderson says his site also boasts the largest of several Web libraries of Flight Simulator add-on files, many of which can be downloaded at no cost. In early August he got a letter from a Dallas law firm representing American Airlines, ordering him to pull any images with the airline's logo off his site.
Lighthouse: Mr Web Design changes direction.
But Siegel does accept one final reason why the beautiful sites he pointed to in 1995 and 1996 have not gained ground. Consumers didn't like them.
[clip]: E-Business Essentials.
One significant result of the study is that companies mistakenly think the tactics they use most are also the most effective. Banner advertisements, for example, are the most common form of online marketing. But they rank near the bottom in effectiveness.
Industry Standard: Marketing Spotlight: Internet Ad Spending Keeps Climbing.
More than half of marketers surveyed by Forrester say their online ad spending will come on top of current media budgets. However, some marketers plan to fund Net ads by slashing traditional media: 33 percent will cut their TV budgets.
Fortune: Webware for Rent.
Instead, it and other Web-savvy businesses are using the Internet to eliminate the burden of buying and running expensive, hard-to-maintain computer systems. They're turning to outsiders like Exodus for a wide range of services, from playing host to corporate accounting, personnel, and payroll programs to gaining quick entree to the world of e-commerce.
Forbes ASAP: Directories may be dull, but they're important.
What may result is the Internet equivalent of pay-as-you-go lanes, where Internet users who can afford more expensive access will zoom around the web while others with basic service will be stuck in the virtual toll lanes.
Information Week: Built To Scale.
Nevertheless, for E-commerce sites dealing with thousands of Web application users at any given moment while also dispensing hundreds of thousands of unique page views per day, achieving peak performance and allowing for future growth is a somewhat mysterious art.
Salon: 11 million Net addicts? Come on!
Each August, the American Psychological Association convenes. And every year since 1996, someone has stood up to present findings that the Internet is dangerous and addictive.
Business Week: Eliminating the Middleman Online.
The thinking goes like this: If a business buys 100 desktops direct from IBM, Big Blue has an opportunity to sell the hardware as part of an entire "solutions" package. But if that purchaser buys from some reseller, all it gets are the PCs.
Marketing Computers: Advertising in a Broadband Future.
After viewing the pages and interacting with the ads, users were measured on recall, purchase intent, likability and annoyance factors.
Information Week: Wireless Travel.
One way hotels and airlines are attracting Internet Age business travelers is by providing wireless connections in airline terminals, hotel lobbies, and guest rooms.
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