November 3, 1999
Wired News: Toward a Click-and-Pay Standard.
The era of almost-everything-free-on-the-Internet may be evolving into the age of the micropayment with new software from IBM and Compaq, who are pushing for new Net standards to hurry things along.
- IETF: Micro Payments Birds of a Feather.
In this BOF we'll review some recent micropayment markup standardization spec from the W3C, and discuss whether the IETF should attempt to contribute standards in this area...
Business 2.0: Ponder the Peril of Portals.
Patricia Seybold. Syndicate your information and your products, let customers and prospects get your information, products, and services from a multitude of Websites, digital markets, and aggregators.
Salon: Getting smart, the stupid Web way.
On Oct. 25, on a Monday morning at midtown Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom, such just-do-it bromides bracketed the scene at AltaVista Network's live relaunch. Think out-of-control smoke-up-your-ass hoopla.
Industry Standard: FT Runs Afoul of Hong Kong Paper.
The FT recently launched an advertising campaign announcing free access to its archive online, which included articles from the Post. But the Post charges a fee for the same articles on its own Web site, and FT's end run has raised the Post's hackles.
Editor & Publisher: Newspaper Stories Online in 30 Minutes or Less.
Steve Outing. The trend is now crystal clear. Major newspapers are headed toward the day when reporters' work will be published instantly on the Web, in order to compete with TV news and wire services.
Red Herring: Mobile computing finds its voice.
Cell phones are becoming commonplace. Internet access, at least the wire-line kind, is widespread. Portable devices capable of accessing the Internet via voice recognition technology appear to be the next step.
ZDNN: Report calls for national 'e-archive'.
Policy-makers should create a new system of "electronic depositories" to preserve digital information for posterity, America’s top research council says in a new report. The National Research Council’s recommendation is contained in a survey of the challenges surrounding intellectual property rights in an online age.
Business Week: Salon and Slate: A Tale of Two Webzines.
But both sites' biggest challenge is to give readers reasons to log onto them regularly as a primary news source. That'll be tough with so many established media giants stomping about the Internet with their own news and information services.
BBC News: Mapping the internet.
What internet cartographers have realised since they first started this task is that there will be many maps of cyberspace, just as there are many types of maps of the Earth based on different geometrical projections or on different properties of the Earth's surface, such as relief or climatic or political maps.
NY Times: Rewriting the Résumé Rules of the Road.
Computer databases that screen jobseekers are the culprit. With millions of applications sent by e-mail and the Web, employers lack the time even to glance at many. Instead, they sort through job-search Web sites like CareerMosaic or through their own virtual piles by asking computers to search for phrases...
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