February 27, 2001
Internet World: First-Mover Advantage Is Overrated.
Jakob Nielsen. Most of the successful Internet companies were not anywhere near the first to market. There probably is some first-mover advantage, but it has been much overrated and used as a poor excuse for foisting poor-quality services on the public.
USA Today: Virus researchers: Internet needs immune system.
But contrary to the long-held notion that biological models can be used to predict how cyberviruses proliferate, two European physicists have found that they actually spread differently — a finding that could lead to better and faster ways to protect against this PC threat.
Industry Standard: BlueLight Special.
The company's original Web site barely made an impression on e-commerce watchers – or customers – after its debut in 1995. Rather than renovate the struggling Kmart.com, however, the company started fresh late in 1999, designing and building a new site from scratch...
ClickZ: Bizarro Web Revisited.
Well, today I propose a similar mental exercise. Let's take another trip through the looking glass. Only this time when we ask, "What if Webvertising came without there ever being mention of a click-through?" the scenario is much more disturbing.
Wired News: Chat Room Rants Protected.
A Los Angeles judge dismissed a lawsuit last Friday that sought to collect damages from "John Does" who criticized the company anonymously on Internet message boards. Privacy advocates say the decision sets an important precedent in the fight to protect anonymous speech online.
Internet Week: Dotcom Fire Sales: IT Buyers Beware.
Computers, applications, databases and Web content designed for one company's infrastructure don't always fit another's. And some buyers have found it nearly impossible to get precise quantities, configurations, conditions and other specs on IT assets from defunct companies.
Wired News: Courts Face Privacy Conundrum.
Courts' ability to post records available online promises to make it more difficult to keep documents in obscurity. Over the course of the year, the U.S. federal court system plans to develop a new set of rules governing how case filings are disseminated online.
Computerworld: Domain-name registration gets 64 more languages.
The 64 new languages are being added to a multilingual domain names test-bed program being organized by the IETF and other standards bodies that are working to develop global standards for registering domain names in many languages to help promote the use of the Internet around the world.
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