February 17, 2001
Interactive Week: Lessig: 'We're Losing the Idea War'.
Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig strongly criticized the ruling against Napster that the U.S. Court of Appeals of the 9th Circuit issued earlier this week, saying that policymakers should let technological innovation proceed before codifying the laws of cyberspace.
Internet Week: E-Retailer's Personal Touch.
REI's 35 Web developers will spend the better part of this year deploying software that gives customers more personalized views of products based on their tastes, a move the company is hoping will translate to more online sales. The retailer is no stranger to adopting new technologies.
Darwin: E-Business as Usual.
Customers want to shop wherever and whenever they want, so companies need to be able to meet customers' needs in any sales channel—in REI's case, that means stores, catalogs and websites—and make it easy for patrons to move seamlessly among channels.
MIT Technology Review: Digital Renaissance: The Director Next Door.
Now, the introduction of cheap and lightweight digital video cameras, PC-based digital editing software, and streaming-video distribution on the Web puts the resources of filmmaking in the hands of an equally broad range of citizens and thus expands the potential for grassroots creativity.
Industry Standard: China, the Net and Free Speech.
Qi's prosecution is the latest and highest-profile attempt by the Chinese government to control the Internet. In 1999, the government convicted Lin Hai, a computer company owner in Shanghai, after he provided e-mail addresses to a pro-democracy group.
Business 2.0: AltaVista Fights Better Business Bureau.
The thorny issue of kids privacy has put search engine AltaVista at odds with the BBB. A press release from a unit of the BBB, released yesterday, implied AltaVista was closing some community services as a result of a BBB probe into kids privacy. Today, both sides say that's simply not true.
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