January 30, 2001
Media Guardian: Prophets of doom at online news profits.
Leaning down from the stage, Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, made it clear that the honeymoon with online news was over. "I just don't see how you can make money out of it." Since that comment many other media bosses have started to wonder whether they will ever make money online.
NY Times: Disney to Abandon Portal Site.
Mr. Eisner said that online advertising would rebound, but Go was not in a position to benefit. "Seventy percent of the advertising for portals is going to the top three players," he said. "The 10 second-tier portals are left picking up the scraps."
The Register: Search engine veteran poo-poos AltaVista patent claims.
This was too much for Alan Emtage, who created one of the earliest search engines, Archie. In a Business Wire press release, Alan explained that his engine - released first in 1989 - used FTP to crawl public sites and index them for Internet users.
SJ Mercury: Arrogance is muted but technology remains a presence at forum.
Dan Gillmor. There is no New Economy, no Old Economy, says Orit Gadiesh. There is just the economy. Gadiesh, chairman of Bain & Co., has been saying this for some time, including here at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting a year ago. Back in early 2000, her words fell on skeptical ears.
Internet World: New Economy Is Down but Not Out.
Jakob Nielsen. The previous two years, presentations by Internet companies had the old-timers quaking in their boots, so this year many speakers clearly enjoyed the downturn in the new economy. Even so, most executives seemed to have realized the importance of the Internet.
Inside: How the Net Could Nuke TV: Video File-Sharing.
Tom Watson and Jason Chervokas. If you believe the runaway success of Napster's peer-to-peer business has fundamentally altered the media landscape, then the next big quake logically will be in television. Just as Aimster, so may a similar combination of software, hardware, and bandwidth change the way we watch television.
ZDNN: Security patches aren't being applied.
The scenario, repeated daily at sites across the Internet, exposes a common security problem largely unknown to the general public. Although software makers routinely release "fixes" designed to plug holes and reassure worried customers, these antidotes are often ignored by administrators...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Even as dot-coms close, others charge ahead with 'telco hotels' here.
But with dot-coms closing, telecommunications companies struggling and electricity costs skyrocketing, some are starting to wonder if the Internet data center boom is past its peak. At least one major developer of Internet data centers is scaling back. Others admit the Seattle market could very well be overbuilt.
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