April 1, 2000
Internet World: A Glimpse Into Our Future, When The Net Is Everywhere.
The boxes exemplified the kind of immersive Internet experience those at the conference are seeking to build in the future, even as today's mobile Net products and services remain as unpolished as the metal boxes slapped together for the conference.
Internet World: Deconstructing Entertaindom.com.
Peter Merholz and John Shiple. The home page confuses three very different tasks - reading stuff, watching stuff, and doing stuff - with a single overarching interface, making it unclear what to expect when you click a link.
InfoWorld: Vendors don't want you to sell used software as you would used books or CDs.
I've talked about cancelled eBay auctions here before, but in each of those cases the software publisher said it had reason to believe the copy being auctioned was pirated. In this situation, however, both eBay and Caere seemed to be telling the reader he was breaking laws even if he had legally acquired the copy of Pagekeeper.
Business Week: Battle of the Biz-News Dot-Coms.
Lagging revenues and slow subscription growth at TheStreet have plagued the company. In a model shift, TheStreet recently began offering big chunks of its content free to Web surfers, including some commentary from its vaunted columnist lineup.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of an ICONOCAST report on two estimates of the amount of time spent on the Internet.
Empirical measurement of actual user behavior: 13 hours. Users' subjective responses to a survey: 23 hours. This is a great example of why one should not rely on surveys or other user-reported "data."
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