April 15, 2001
Useit.Com: The 3Cs of Critical Web Use: Collect, Compare, Choose.
Researchers from Xerox PARC recently presented the mother of all critical incident studies. The big question: What are the important things people do on the Web as a whole? Although individual websites may not generate good critical incidents, the totality of users' online experience surely does.
EE Times: Code technique tunes in Internet broadcasts.
Startup Digital Fountain will launch software coding techniques Monday to deliver broadcast video over IP networks. The approach claims to address one of the Internet's thorniest problems: how to deliver content to a TV-scale audience without throwing the network into gridlock.
SJ Mercury: E-commerce firms gain from unfair taxation.
Dan Gillmor. Forcing local companies to collect sales taxes while exempting out-of-state retailers undermines local businesses. Ultimately, this policy undermines the tax bases of states and local communities that rely, to differing degrees, on sales-tax revenue.
EE Times: MobileStar taps IBM for Starbucks wireless deal.
To help meet an agreement with Starbucks to have 2,000 coffee shops enabled with high-speed wireless connections by yearend, MobileStar Network Corp. has announced its selection of IBM to take care of the site surveys, wireline networks and backbone connectivity.
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