September 30, 1999
Salon: A worm in the Apple?
And this crack in Apple's interface foundation is spreading: Upcoming Apple applications -- including the video editor Final Cut Pro and Sherlock 2, the next iteration of the Mac OS "Find" function -- are saddled with similar, and arguably damaged, interfaces.
NY Times: For the People, by the Computer.
The goal of electronic government is to go beyond offering information and communication by enabling residents to do business directly with their local governments. By relying more on computers and less on workers, cities hope to save money as well.
Computerworld: Web boosts self-service human resources.
Self-service human resources "lets HR people do the work you hired them to do," Messerschmidt added. Otherwise, "you're using college-educated HR professionals to push paper around. We call it administrivia."
ClickZ: Can Truth Kill Brands?
These major brands are not ready for open dialogue. Why? Because they do not have a strategy in place for the freedom of opinion that the web enables. This will lead the way into a new role for brands -- a role where the brand also starts to show weaknesses.
RCFoC: Death Is No Longer An Excuse!
The line between telephones, the Web, and our pockets and purses is going to be a very blurry and wavy line indeed, as some of today's, and certainly tomorrow's pocket phones become Internet citizens in their own right.
Business Week: To the Victors Belong the Web Ads.
The good news: Yes, companies can thrive on advertising alone. The bad news: The number of those that can do this seems to be shrinking, as marketers spend more and more with just a handful of big sites.
Fortune: AOL: The Future King of Advertising?
With newcomers going onto the Internet every day and current users spending more time online, Wolzien predicts that AOL will generate more ad revenues than either the ABC or CBS broadcast networks (excluding revenues from their TV stations) by 2003.
LA Times: Excite@Home Board Expected to Vote on Split.
Sources say AT&T, the largest shareholder of Excite@Home, with 58% of the votes, sent a formal proposal to the Excite@Home board this week that calls for separating the distribution from the content assets of the company...
NY Times: Beyond Geography: Mapping Unknowns of Cyberspace.
The maps hold the potential to change, subtly or perhaps more directly, the relationship of the average person to cyberspace, the world of electronic communication that includes but is not limited to the Internet. How people envision the online landscape influences their behavior there, experts say.
Wired News: Goodbye Wallet; Hello Chip.
[Visa International CEO Malcolm Williamson] At the Jupiter Financial Services Forum -- a conference on emerging technologies -- Williamson talked about how credit card companies are using advances in chip technology to store vast amounts of data in tiny, portable devices.
Time: Question of the Internet Age: To Regulate or Not to Regulate?
TIME convened a meeting of its Board of Economists in San Francisco this month to assess the impact of the Internet on more traditional arenas like the Fed's monetary policy, the domestic economy, and the breadth of America's socioeconomic divides.
News.Com: Priceline.com to defend patents against Microsoft?
"Lawsuits are a great way to make lawyers rich, but they don't make customers happier, and they don't make shareholders happier," Walker said. Priceline.com's business, which also lets consumers name their price for mortgages and new cars, doesn't depend on the success of defending its patents...
NY Times: Searches Where Less, Not More, Is Better.
All this focus on relevancy does not mean that the size of the list of Web pages visited, the traditional measure of search engine prowess, is no longer important...
Business Week: From NASA, a Web Search Tool for the Blind
But NASA soon realized that Iliad had more than one audience. Just so happens its text-based e-mail interface is ideally suited for Internet users who are either blind or visually impaired.
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