January 3, 2001
Business 2.0: The Wal-Mart Future.
Clay Shirky. Business-to-consumer retail Websites were going to be really big. Consumers were going to be dazzled by the combination of lower prices and the ability to purchase products from anywhere. The Web was supposed to be the best retail environment the world had ever seen.
Wired News: Fire Insurance for the Internet.
These cases are but two of many hoaxes and false reports on the Web that can tarnish reputations and/or send stock prices tumbling within minutes of their release. That's why companies are turning to a new breed of highly automated Internet clipping or monitoring services to track what's being said about them.
Wired News: Pirates Beware: We're Watching.
Content companies are slowly coming to realize that digital rights management solutions can't stop the file-trading frenzy that has gripped the Internet. New monitoring applications allow them to attack piracy not at the user level, but by going directly to the service provider.
Financial Times: Yahoo! bans hate propaganda.
Yahoo! on Wednesday agreed to block the sale of Nazi memorabilia on its US auction and shopping sites, in effect capitulating to the jurisdiction of an overseas court over online material. The self-censorship marks a U-turn by Yahoo!, which had opposed on principle a French court ruling...
TechWeb: Yahoo To Reject Hate Items, Charge For Auctions.
Brian Fitzgerald, senior producer for Yahoo! Auctions, said the decision to add a fee was part of a larger ongoing discussion at Yahoo! over whether it should charge for more of the services it now provides at no cost. Fitzgerald said he could not speak for other areas of the company.
FEED Magazine: No Place Like the Future.
This bit of publicist theater feels like nothing so much as a weirdly flawed version of those kitschy fifties industrial films that heralded the "House of Tomorrow" -- magical, futuristic places where hausfraus in pastel dresses prance around praising the inherent liberation of the robotic kitchen.
Wired News: Who Gets to Drive Nissan.com?
The Nissan v. Nissan lawsuit -- picture the acrimonious custody battle of Kramer vs. Kramer, but without the cute kid -- is now in the "discovery" phase, awaiting this month's decision on an appeal over a preliminary injunction issued last March by the U.S. Ninth District Court.
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