February 24, 2001
Advertising Age: Advertorial seeps into search sites.
A few years ago, the idea of tainting search results with paid listings set off an industry fury. But in today's economic climate, what once was unthinkable by the most successful search engines is now being accepted as status quo and a means to eking out desperately needed online ad revenue.
Wired News: Concern About New Web Monitors.
CyberScan, CyberAlert and eWatch are among the companies that comb the Web to report what's being said about their clients in all the public and not-so-public corners of the Internet -- from online news outlets to Usenet groups, Web logs and e-mail listservs.
Internet Week: The Newest DSL: Faster And Further.
The G.991.2 standard defines single-pair high-bit-rate DSL as DSL technology that lets carriers use existing copper wiring to provide symmetric data transmission rates ranging from 192 Kbps at 6,000 feet to 2.3 Mbps at 20,000 feet.
The Register: Web Communities Don't Bring in the $$$.
are a lot of unreasonable people in the world, but they get a lot more unreasonable when they write messages online. In fact, I'd say most people lose inhibitions when writing online, but it's the biggest jerks among us who end up dominating the discussion and controlling the agenda.
CIO: Channel Crossing.
Instead of excluding dealers, Polaroid embraced them. Last June, the company launched PolaroidWork.com, a site for commercial customers that delivers information and demonstrations on products such as film, cameras and digital imaging equipment.
ZDNet E-Business: Fulfillment best practices.
You don't want to lose any shopper who's come this far. Information about shipping, returns, and ordering deadlines needs to be clear. Otherwise, shoppers may lose confidence in the transaction and hit the "cancel order" button.
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