January 21, 2000
NY Times: @Home Puts Speed Limits on Uploads by Subscribers.
He said he can see the abusers on a display of a node's users, with one or two showing huge usage spikes. Although @Home turns this information over to its cable partners, that may be as far as the policing goes. The alternative to going after individuals is an upstream speed cap for everyone.
PC World: Who Controls Online News?
It's a great media land grab--corporate mergers are dominating the Internet landscape, affecting what and how you read. In business, why act alone when you can partner up? Disney and ABC, Viacom and CBS, and General Electric and NBC are just some of the media elite. But what's good for business isn't necessarily good for news, say some media experts.
Good Experience: The Web's Identity Crisis.
Yes, there are designers and marketers with different goals, but the customer's goals can unite both sides. It's the customer experience, not market interests or designers' egos, that should guide Web development.
Upside: Bidding Wars.
If aggregation sites work and EBay doesn't participate, it will start losing customers. But if EBay continues to offer a great customer experience, its first-mover advantage will keep it on top.
Interactive Week: Eudora Free, Thanks To Advertisers.
Advertising network Real Media will handle ad sales on Eudora's behalf, marking the advertising firm's entry into the market for selling space in software applications. "Consumers will pay for software with their cash, their attention or by supplying information about themselves..."
Scientific American: Your First $20 Free!
Customers appear to be willing to pay for the security and familiarity that a well-known name gives them, especially because they don't have physical cues such as the condition of a storefront or the attitudes of the clerks. Profit, Ariely says, lies in reducing consumers' sense of uncertainty.
News.Com: Profit squabble mars wireless Web future.
It's the first time that one of the members has publicly sought profit from the others--but unlikely the last. Analysts say it's a sign the industry's quick growth could be slowed as other companies owning the technology seek to boost their own share in the wireless Net's profits.
Industry Standard: Does Geoworks Have a License To Print Money?
Unlike Qualcomm, Geoworks does not control the technology – just an important piece. However, Dave Grannan, president and CEO of Geoworks, does expect to earn tens of millions of dollars over the next couple of years from this windfall.
Wired News: DVD Hackers Take a Hit in NY.
After hearing three hours of argument, federal judge Louis A. Kaplan granted the MPAA's request for a preliminary injunction against three Web site hosts who had distributed the DVD decryption utility.
Industry Standard: Planet Web: The Language Gap.
The enormous task of plugging in China, on its own, won't clear the way to smooth communication online. That's because language – and specifically, written language – is the stubborn barrier to life online for the Chinese.
Fortune: Hate the Web Master? He, Too, Can Be Replaced.
But cost management is complicated because organizations have grown more dependent on the people who manage the digital media that the organizations have grown more dependent on. It's a vicious cycle.
Business Week: What If the Internet Ran Out of Power?
At a recent conference at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C., Mills predicted that "half of all electricity within the next decade will be devoted to computers and the Internet."
FEED Magazine: The NBC/CBS Image Controversy.
Clay Shirky. The brand-building skirmish has already led to a larger controversy about whether the whole equation of "image = truth" is newly threatened. But why should an ad pasted on the side of a building take precedence over an ad pasted in a video stream?
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