August 28, 1999
InfoWorld: Ticketmaster: You'd better put down that Web link or we'll sue you.
Some companies apparently feel the need to control their customers' experience to a greater degree than is possible on the Web. Ticketmaster wants you to buy tickets only after passing through its home page or one of its authorized partners.
InfoWorld: Advertising dependency will help burst the Internet stock bubble on Nov. 8.
Growth is masking price declines. AdForce alone is adding a billion new ad impressions per month. But by November it will be clear that you cannot give everything away for free to attract eyeballs for sale profitably to advertisers.
ABCNews.Com: The Great Wired North.
Canada hopes to use this world’s fastest nationwide network to stake its claim to the high-tech future. Unlike Internet2, however, CA*Net3 is finding it difficult to attract researchers who can use the brand-new network.
NY Times: Bike Makers Look for Strategy on the Web.
So heading into a new century, bike companies have begun looking to the Web for strategies, including different distribution methods, promotional efforts and even some direct sales.
InfoWorld: ART, Lucent Digital Radio expand field of wireless technology.
Like ART, Lucent Digital Radio is turning to wireless technology to expand access to information. However, this time the target is not the Internet, it is the lowly radio.
Advertising Age: Shell takes banner ads to its critics.
Shell International, London, is running banners on potentially hostile Web sites to spur dialogue with activists who criticize its human rights and environmental practices.
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