February 28, 2001
Editor & Publisher: Can News Content Save e-Books?
Steve Outing. Let me start by saying that there are some serious problems with the current state of the e-book/e-reader industry. Foremost is the industry's near-exclusive focus on books — and consumer titles at that — as the content to be consumed on these devices.
NY Times: Revving Up the Search Engines to Keep the E-Aisles Clear.
More than two-thirds of online retail sites tested last spring by Forrester Research failed to list the most relevant content in the first page of search results. No wonder sites have suffered from an inability to convert browsers into buyers. Customers are literally being driven away by weak search technology.
Interactive Week: Net Copyright Decision Causes Stir.
A recent appeals court decision in a Maryland copyright law case has Internet companies expressing concern, and even outrage. To what extent are Internet portal sites and service providers responsible for policing their networks for copyright infringement?
Context Magazine: Location, Location, Location.
Despite all the new choices, long-established settlement patterns and social arrangements will continue to be remarkably resistant to change; when they change, they do so slowly, messily, and incompletely. Human nature hardly alters at all.
PC World: Coming Soon: Paperlike Displays for Your PDA.
Royal Philips Electronics, Europe's largest maker of consumer electronics, said on Tuesday its Philips Components division and private electronic ink technology firm, E Ink, will jointly develop visual display technology for handheld devices to make text and images appear as if they are on white paper.
Business 2.0: To Bot or Not to Bot?
Although Andrew no longer greets visitors to Artificial Life, the fact that a robot software maker itself has trouble configuring bots for its site underscores the difficulty in choosing, implementing, and maintaining these Web-based "virtual assistants."
Argus ACIA: An Interview with Christina Wodtke.
Lots of clients assume this methodology will be slow and expensive, or lacks business sense. The second concern is pretty easy to dispel. We don't practice User-Driven IA because we are philanthropists: we do it because a happy customer is a loyal customer.
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