September 2, 1999
Business 2.0: No ExSKUses.
Glenn Fleishman. Almost no online stores, and certainly none of the major brand names, leverage the power of the information relationships contained in their product databases in a way that benefits the consumer, or even reflects the manner in which consumers make choices.
Business 2.0: Marketing Makeover.
Q&A with Sergio Zyman. Of particular importance is providing information to consumers to help them make buying decisions, a task to which the Web is ideally suited. But Net-based businesses are falling into some of the same traps as traditional businesses. Attempting to compete on price rather than service or other intangibles...
Salon: Jupiter shoots for the moon.
In many ways, the criticisms that are leveled at Jupiter can be leveled at just about any market research company -- and often are. "Do I think the Internet analyst market is a scam?"
Business 2.0: Culture Club.
Those with the greatest success in traditional markets often perceive ecommerce as a threat to their stature, power, and ultimately their jobs. Paradoxically, in the face of this transition, it is often the highest achievers in marketing or sales who voice the greatest skepticism to investing in a new market approach.
ABCNews.Com: New Keys to Content.
"Many Internet users think that, if there is no practical way to charge for content, they will get it free," Net pundit Bob Metcalfe wrote recently in his "From the Ether" column. "The reality is that without [online] payment systems, a lot of premium online content will be not free, but unavailable."
Business 2.0: Portal Pretense.
[Mark Breier, CEO of Beyond.com] Breier's lip service raised a question many ecommerce vendors are asking today: Are the long term, megamillion-dollar deals that give exposure on high-traffic portal sites such as Yahoo!, Excite@Home, AOL, and Lycos worth it?
Business 2.0: Fit to Print.
[Tom Baker, GM The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition] What then becomes the role of the traditional editor? Or as Baker wonders, "How do you flag a story so it says this is a really good story, make sure you see it? If you start putting lots of bells and whistles, it's hard to draw the line."
RCFoC: The Next Battle Is Joined!
But the chat-changes likely won't end here. How long before one of the new voice-chat services adds still pictures, and then video? And, how long before businesses realize that this voice-chat service represents a global "conference call" system that is completely free.
NY Times: The Digital Brain Drain.
Few suggest that basic sciences are disappearing from the classroom. But a sense is growing in some business quarters that the sheer ubiquity of computers has deflected attention from more traditional sciences and skills.
PC Week: Turnkey services relieve Web congestion.
It was only a matter of time before someone realized that distributed networks could be shared. There are tens of thousands of Web sites, but only a few attract flash crowds on any given day.
Forbes ASAP: Pogo's prospects jump.
They [interstitials] are, however, being very well received by Pogo players, who are served these ads in between Bingo rounds. "People really watch those because it's such a short time between game rounds that they can't go anywhere else..."
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