February 8, 2001
InfoWorld: New laws may be needed to end piracy, movie head says.
But as the industry develops encryption technologies to prevent unauthorized duplication and distribution of its movies online, those technologies may have to be legitimized by law, he said. "We may have to have some legislation to make sure the technology finds its roots," said Valenti...
Wired News: Follow Your E-Mail Everywhere.
Both scenarios are possible, thanks to services that track when and where e-mail messages are read without the recipient's knowledge. The technology has long been used by online marketers to determine who reads their spam; now it's available to consumers as well.
Editor & Publisher: E-mail Your Audience Anything They Want.
Steve Outing. What's not possible in print, and is not currently in practice from news Web sites, is making it possible for a news consumer to have any little bit of a news organization's content delivered. I'm talking about total, complete choice by the consumer of what he/she receives.
InfoWorld: The next generation of Web site interfaces.
Q&A with Nick Gould, CEO of Catalyst Group Design. As the medium matures, you're going to have fewer sites serving more people, as well as serving more user groups, and [the sites are] going to need to learn how to more effectively target their product offering to those groups based on what [the customers] really want and need.
Business Week: Is the Web the Only Place to Place Newspaper Ads?
Funded as a for-profit subsidiary by the Newspaper Association of America trade and research group, NICC aims to create a one-stop shop where media buyers can pay for and place ads anywhere in the nation. In turn, newspapers can receive payments and the necessary artwork from one source.
Red Herring: Smart technology trounces traders.
I engaged in a friendly battle of wits against IBM's intelligent agent technology to trade commodities. The result's weren't pretty. The object of the exercise was to test their intelligent agent's buying and selling powers against live humans.
W3C: Common User Agent Problems.
This document explains some common mistakes in user agents due to incorrect or incomplete implementation of specifications, and suggests remedies. It also suggests some "good behavior" where specifications themselves do not specify any particular behavior...
NY Times: Comparing Nasdaq and Tulips Unfair to Flowers.
Hal R. Varian. Was the Nasdaq bubble yet another example of tulipmania? The answer is no, but not for the reason you think. There is a good argument that the run-up in Dutch tulip prices in the 1630's was more or less rational. But there is no such excuse for the Nasdaq bubble of 1999...
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