March 18, 2001
Industry Standard: Microsoft Moves to Turn .Net Into a Reality.
On Monday, Bill Gates will announce a blitzkrieg campaign to transform Microsoft's much-ballyhooed .Net Web services initiative from an abstract technical notion into a concrete business idea. According to a source familiar with the project it is enormously ambitious...
Useit.Com: Stationary Mobility.
One of the mobile Internet's greatest benefits may well come from devices that rarely move at all. Once cellular Internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous and cheap, many devices will connect to the net without wires. Take it out of the box and feed it power, and it is connected.
SJ Mercury: There's no free lunch on the Internet.
Dan Gillmor. We've just about finished dessert at the Internet's free lunch. Mmmm, such a tasty meal. Sooner or later, though, we'll have to start paying for what we consume. The free lunch came courtesy of investors, many of whom turned out to be classic suckers
Computer User: End of the free ride.
With a slowed stock market and dot-coms going under, many are considering what was once a Net heresy: charging consumers for Internet content. But the burning question is whether consumers will actually open their wallets.
Lighthouse: What price feedback email?
Customers expect more and better service. But now that the easy money of the dot-com boom has evaporated, many Web site operators want tighter cost control. And hiring people to write coherent and intelligent answers to feedback email costs real money.
Web Review: The Myth of 800x600.
Developing fixed-size Web pages is a fundamentally flawed practice. Not only does it result in Web pages that remain at a constant size regardless of the user's browser size, but it fails to take advantage of the medium's flexibility. Nonetheless, Web site creators continue to develop fixed pages.
Good Experience: Bits as Art.
I'm excited to see bits explored as art, since it will help us understand this new form of matter in a new way. Yet I see the limitations that (as always) bits bring to the issue. For example, how does one collect bit-based art?
NY Times: Bit by Bit, the Digital Age Comes Into Artistic Focus.
Like Mr. Blake, who trained as a painter but now employs techniques more closely allied with filmmaking, photography, installation or digital design, the artists pioneering these new combinatory forms are producing work that thwarts conventional categorization.
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