January 13, 2001
SF Chronicle: Rights Advocate Starts Stanford Tech Law Center.
Lawrence Lessig, who once headed a similar center at Harvard Law School, will direct the new Center for Internet and Society. The center is starting a law clinic this semester in which six students will take on Internet law cases ranging from freedom of online speech to Native Americans' rights to bandwidth.
Mappa.Mundi Magazine: Fly Through the Web.
HotSauce worked as a plugin to an existing browser so that when a hyperlink to a MCF-enabled website was selected the user was dropped into a first-person perspective view of the Web. It was a videogame view with Web pages floating as brightly colored blocks in an infinite black space...
Web Techniques: Building Web Sites With Depth.
Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir. Good stores know that it's not enough for the store to look nice—it must act nice as well, and support the total customer experience, including location, staffing, returns, payments, sales, and so on. E-commerce sites focus far too often on superficial niceties, without investing in their customers' underlying needs.
NY Times: Web a Little Friendlier to Frequent Fliers.
To deal with frequent-flier programs online, you have to steel yourself for the quirks of the airlines the way you brace yourself for delays and awful food when you step through the gate. There are, of course, some instances where the experience is seamless, but too frequently it is flawed.
Internet Week: Means To An End.
Nelson said that Lands' End has a patent pending for technology that helps divine what a shopper is interested in. The technology, developed with help from vendors Sapient and McKinsey & Co., will walk shoppers through several pairs of pictures, with the shopper selecting preferred styles.
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