January 1, 2001
Happy New Year and thanks for reading! Lawrence (tomalak@tomalak.org)
British Telecom: The future of your life.
Ian Pearson, Futurologist at British Telecom. Let's remember that the telephone was once thought to be useless except for listening to opera. Here's how it might be on a bad day in 2020 if we get it wrong. But don't worry, we are working on getting it right!
NY Times: Advocates of People With Disabilities Take Online Stores to Task.
In the meantime, many e-commerce executives say they have only recently become aware of the needs of the disabled, and have begun to address the situation in a way that will not heap even more economic stress on their companies.
Web Techniques: Routing Around the Web.
One of the summit's topics was how much of the attention paid to P2P focuses on Napster, largely due to the client's notoriety. In O'Reilly's opinion, Napster is simply a part, albeit an important one, of a developing P2P story that's reshaping the Internet, yet again.
NY Times: Days of Plenty Are Over at Free Internet Services.
Mr. Goldstein said the timing of Bluelight's announcement was not coincidental: his company was trying to head off a migration of NetZero's heaviest customers to Bluelight's free service. Bluelight.com, he said, did not want them; nor did it want the heavy users it already had.
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