August 27, 1999
Salon: Jay Walker's patent mania.
Walker is the Connecticut entrepreneur whom Forbes magazine in May called the "New Age Edison" -- comparing his intellectual property incubator, Walker Digital, to Edison's own invention factory. Nobody has been more assiduous in patenting Internet business ideas than Walker.
CBS MarketWatch: Jeffrey Eisenach: Digital Revolutionary.
What the Digital Revolution ultimately means is what digital technologies -- the computer, and computers connected to the Internet -- are doing to bring about these changes of flattening organization structures and giving people more freedom over their own lives.
ZDNN: The building of the 'Palm economy'.
Eventually, company watchers say, most new innovations in Palm hardware will come from third-party developers while Palm concentrates on improving and licensing its operating system.
ClickZ: Relinquishing Control-Alt-Delete.
We even live in a make-believe land in which we think we can manipulate and control the impulses of our customers, or at least create new customers by manipulating the impulses of the general public. This is possibly one reason why public relations people have been hesitant to embrace the web.
Internet Week: Massive Redundancy Adds Up to Ad Uptime for DoubleClick.
The advertising agency has turned to massive redundancy, with 20 duplicate datacenters worldwide, to prevent downtime and avoid the kind of embarrassing headlines experienced by the E*Trade Group Inc. and eBay Inc. when those companies experienced long and repeated service outages.
Wired News: 'Where's My Freakin' Package?'
"No one is prepared for the exponential growth in parcel deliveries that online sales will generate," said Stacie McCullough, the Forrester analyst who prepared the report. Web sites that don't rig up sophisticated systems to store, ship, and track the stuff they sell are going to lose money and customers...
PC Week: E-merchants get jump on holiday rush.
The online merchants, for their part, are working to have all their ducks in a row for this year's holiday buying rush, after many were caught off guard last year by a swarm of online shoppers.
ZDNN: Amazon grants privacy requests.
He maintained that Amazon has seen "overwhelming public acceptance" of the lists, despite some grumbling by privacy advocates. But he said: "We're pioneers, and that means sometimes we're going to take some arrows."
PC Week: Shipshape design.
Online real-time collaboration represents a profound change in traditional product engineering processes. Most product design and development today is done in a sequential way that can waste large chunks of time.
Industry Standard: Forbes.com Pushes the Line With Microsoft Ad.
Forbes magazine is learning firsthand that, in new media, the line between editorial and advertising is more like a minefield. The American Society of Magazine Editors says it plans to launch a formal review into the advertising practices of Forbes Digital Tool, the magazine's Internet site.
Red Herring: Wireless is more.
"Over the next two years, the big action in wireless lies in figuring out a way to deliver broadband data at what used to be considered narrowband frequencies."
Wired News: Old Dictionary, New Medium.
"The Web has had a permeating effect on the editorial side of what we do," said OED chief editor John Simpson. Online databases, in particular, are playing an important role in the OED revision, changing the nature of lexicographical research.
News.Com: Web breathes new life into Macromedia.
Burgess's bet on the Web paid off in large part because the company's software engineers focused on technologies that worked on low-bandwidth environments, since most consumers access the Web via relatively slow dial-up connections.
EE Times: NEC looks to develop 400-ppi LCDs.
Touting a unique approach to color-filter technology for liquid crystal displays, Japan's NEC Corp. claims to have taken a step forward in producing print-quality displays.
USA Today: Dunkin' Donuts buys critical Web site.
''Dunkin' Donuts did not want anything except for me to go away,'' Felton said. ''So I said, 'OK, purchase my Web site.'''
W3C Working Draft: Platform for Privacy Preferences Specification.
This is the fifth W3C public working draft for review by W3C members and other interested parties. This document has been produced as part of the P3P Activity, and will eventually be advanced toward W3C Recommendation status.
RCFoC: The Underwear Computer.
It wasn't very long ago when some scoffed at people who carried pagers or pocket cell phones or notebook computers. Today, they're increasingly popular because they do, often, confer a competitive advantage.
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