February 2, 2001
Darwin: Final Frontiers.
First, can we declare the Web frontier settled and secured in 2001? And second, how can companies balance their sensible desire to integrate the Web group with the rest of the company, giving it concrete goals and holding it accountable, with the need to encourage continuous innovation?
Wired News: Yahoo Launches Paid Placements.
In another sign that online advertising revenue is tight, Yahoo quietly launched its first "pay-for-play" program this week. Yahoo's Sponsored Sites program allows sites to "enhance" their placement on the giant's directory pages for a fee.
Business 2.0: CNET Bans the Banner.
It may look like a traditional newspaper layout, with advertisements as the major visual element. But the new look of News.com is anything but traditional when it comes to the Web. News.com unveiled its new design and new ad strategy last week, after six months of planning, feedback, and retooling.
NY Times: Kafkaesque? Big Brother? Finding the Right Literary Metaphor for Net Privacy.
The battle of the metaphors is much more than a literary parlor game, said Solove in his article, "Privacy and Power: Computer Databases and Metaphors for Information Privacy." The way a problem is framed determines its solution, he suggested.
undesign.org: A Plan for All Seasons.
Unfortunately, the potential of the Web as it stands right now is being sorely underutilized, not just by the current scapegoat, dot-coms, but by creatives and designers as well. The opportunities to help realize its full potential, and in the process raising the bar on our personal work...
EE Times: Long road ahead for Internet appliances.
The infrastructure and compelling applications needed to make Internet appliances pervasive is still about three years away, according to three panelists speaking at DesignCon on Tuesday. But they debated the best path to IA ubiquity.
Darwin: Share... and Share Alike.
Now Xerox technicians are using knowledge management to share how they fix machines better and more naturally than most companies dream about. Call it an accident—a collision of the real world and the cerebral world that resulted in something thousands of Xerox employees use every day.
The Economist: Only fakirs need apply.
Rather like the network signal that begins to break up on a mobile telephone—“Hello, hello. Are you still there?”—the first signs are emerging of serious trouble in European telecoms companies’ huge gamble to launch third-generation wireless systems.
Computerworld: EBay to limit access to e-mail.
In a change in policy, the San Jose-based online auction company will allow contact with members only through eBay's computers, unless members are actively engaged in a transaction. The company said that spam was a major complaint among its members and that this step was one way to stop it.
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