April 3, 2000
Industry Standard: Battling Censorware.
Lawrence Lessig. But the DMCA admits no such limitation. The question the anticircumvention provision asks is simply whether the copy protection can be avoided. Therefore, code that cracks a protection device is criminal under the DMCA even if the use of the copyrighted material that the code enables would be fair use.
CIO: End Game.
Q&A with David Weinberger. Imagine that you had a TV set that allowed you to engage in conversations with everybody else who's watching the same ad. Now when you see an ad that makes some stupid, ridiculous claim, you can hear the rest of the country laughing at it along with you. You can hear the rest of the country saying, "Nobody believes this. How dumb do they think we are?"
NY Times: Pepsi Takes the Plunge With an Online Campaign.
"A number of us have made commitments to Internet advertising," said Dave Burwick, vice president for marketing at PepsiCo. "We've all tried different things, and we're all trying to learn from each other, because nobody's cracked the code."
LA Times: Internet Guru's Theory of Evolution.
Q&A with John Patrick, IBM VP for Internet technology. Most people think about [changes in the Internet] as speed alone. Speed is important and we all need more of it... But as I think about the evolution of the Internet, I think about seven characteristics: fast, always on, everywhere, natural, intelligent, easy and trusted.
Interactive Week: MIT Readies Net-Generation Bar Code.
Sun Microsystems will join The Gillette Co., International Paper, Procter & Gamble and the Uniform Code Council, which administers bar codes, in sponsoring the center's work to catalyze the creation of open technical standards for electronic product codes.
NY Times: Columbia in Web Venture to Share Learning for Profit.
The goal of the company, Fathom.com, will be to provide knowledge in its broadest form -- classes taught by prominent academics like the historian Simon Schama, reference books like the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, interviews from Columbia's oral history archive...
- Industry Standard: From October 22, 1999; Ivy Online
Forbes: Not.coms.
But Rubbermaid's site fails to do the thing it should do most of all: sell merchandise. Parent company Newell Rubbermaid pulled the plug last year rather than risk offending retailers. Instead, the site merely helps visitors build a product "wish list" to take to the nearest store.
Business Week: Ticketmaster Drops the First Round vs. Tickets.com.
Still, some signs show that Tickets.com may be bowing to Ticketmaster's demands. Virtually all Tickets.com's links to Ticketmaster now go to the home page rather than to specific event listings. "We've gone to linking to the home page because it's less taxing on our resources," claims Andrew Dunkin, senior vice-president for marketing at Tickets.com.
CIO: Is This Any Way to Build an Intranet?
Beveridge had been grinding since 8 a.m., and the high-spirited manager of Motorola's E-Strategy was ready to go another eight hours. After all, he thought, how many times in his life would he get to try something as radical as this: Gathering 58 people from various offices and keeping them holed up for four marathon days and three nights in an effort to build a brand-new intranet.
Wired News: Random House Makes Web Deal.
Random House Ventures, a division of New York-based book publishing giant Random House Inc., announced it has taken a significant minority stake in Xlibris.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
visualLogic: The Web and enterprise identity.
The next phase in the development of the Web will be a conceptual shift from the design of individual Web sites to the design of comprehensive Web-based communications systems that organize and link hundreds of smaller sites into a coherent and navigable whole.
Wired News: Smart Methods to Spot Fraud.
Neural nets are being used for fraud detection at Visa International, Fidelity Investment, Citibank, and American Express. The networks learn to spot fraudulent activity by comparing data on legitimate card usage against known cases of fraud.
ZDNN: Credit-card firms squeeze porn sites.
Adult site operators are smarting under stricter rules from MasterCard International and Visa International that require merchants to keep their charge-back rates to a minimum or face stiff fines.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: In Revamped Library Schools, Information Trumps Books.
Today, students seeking master's degrees in information at Michigan represent more than 50 majors, and only about a third of the program's graduates will become traditional librarians. A growing number of them are preparing for jobs with newfangled titles like information architect and intelligence manager.
NY Times: Web Privacy Group to Offer a Seal of Approval.
An assortment of 26 Internet companies involved in advertising will soon announce yet another organization to tackle the prickly issue of consumer privacy on the Web.
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