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December 1, 1998
Today's Links Story: Update on Amazon Expansion
Microsoft Backstage: Taking A Global View: Localizing for the Web.
Microsoft's plans for international Web content localization.
Boston Business Journal: The `Third Revolution'.
Q&A with MIT's Michael Dertouzos.
News.Com: Netscapesucks.com ordered to cease and desist.
"It's trademark infringement."
InfoWorld: Drop a dime online.
Are viable micropayment systems on a comeback?
Webmonkey: The Future of Your Homepage.
Jeffrey Veen.
ClickZ: Web Advertising Doesn't Work.
Time to realize that if people don't click on banner ads -- and they don't -- they're of no value to anyone.
NY Times: Catalogue Companies Slow to Set Up Shop Online.
...some fear the Web would cannibalize catalogue sales, while others believe that people who are accustomed to flipping quickly through a catalogue would not tolerate the tedium of waiting for Web pages to download on a computer screen.
News.Com: Broadcast.com, Hoover's tap Amazon.
Amazon reaches agreements to be exclusive book merchant.
Salon: The birth of an Internet network?
Scott Rosenberg. Why the Netscape/AOL deal is not network television.
December 2, 1998
ClickZ: Cold Hard Cache: The Quantified Truth.
How does caching effect advertisers and publishers?
ZDNN: Sources say PointCast sale imminent
News.Com: WebTV coming to high-speed cable.
Deal with Scientific-Atlanta and their Explorer 2000 boxes.
Wired News: Diamond Countersues, Defends Rio
Ottawa Citizen: Shatner bolsters WebTV identity
Wired News: The Devil Is in the Details.
A directory for specialized databases.
Web Page Design for Designers: Graphic File Formats
NY Times: Microsoft Bets on Barter Advertising Network.
LinkExchange.
News.Com: Browser makers face developers' complaints.
Panel discussion with Microsoft, Netscape and Web Standards project.
Upside: Don't Ruin Our Netscape!
Salon: The Father of Mario and Zelda.
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto.
December 3, 1998
Today's Links Story: Amazon's Holiday Note
Search Engine Watch: December Search Engine Report.
Covering Netscape/AOL, NewHoo, and everything else happening with search engines.
News.Com: Countries follow U.S. on crypto
TechWeb: Lotus To Roll Out Website Creation Tool.
FastSite 2.0 to be rolled out next week.
Wired News: Going Postal, Going Nowhere.
Postal Service's place in the delivery food chain questioned.
CNNfn: Web advertising, 24/7 style.
Transcript of interview with head of 24/7 Media on Business Day.
TechWeb: Motorola To Set Blackbird Loose.
Multifunction box to be unveiled at Winter Consumer Electronics Show.
Useit.Com: Spotlight of an essay George Gilder wrote about customer-dominated reality of the Web.
Upside: Another Book, Another Look.
Don Tapscott's new book "Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in E-Business."
News.Com: Microsoft's Chromeffects coming out after all.
Pieces of technology from Chromeffects to be released in IE5 and Windows 2000 Professional.
December 4, 1998
News.Com: Netscape revving up new browser engine.
...Netscape Communications is expected to unveil on Monday a developer preview of the next-generation layout engine for Communicator 5.0...
Wired News: Will Arms Treaty Hurt Privacy?
Industry Standard: The Five Lessons of E-Christmas
News.Com: Firm pulls ad blocking software.
"Simply put: If you love free Web sites, don't block the ads."
Useit.Com: Spotlight of the new Palm Pilot VII comes with built-in wireless connectivity.
Unfortunately, this first product is very weak: requires use of a separate email address (get it: unified messaging is in), only allows access to a restricted subset of the Web (get it: openness is the foundation of the Web), and has a miserable service plan...
Freedom Forum: A cyberbard could step through your screen.
Jon Katz.
Wired News: New Internet Protocol Sees Light.
IPv6.
FEED Magazine: It's a Small World Wide Web
Web Review: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo!
Web Architect.
RCFoC: The Retail Revolution
ClickZ: Interview with Evan Neufeld, Jupiter Communications
Advertising Age: AOL reveals reach of Net.
America Online/Roper Starch Cyberstudy.
Editor & Publisher: What Exactly Is 'Interactivity'?
Steve Outing.
NY Times: International Group Reaches Agreement on Data-Scrambling Software
News.Com: 3D Web developers watching Microsoft plans
Webmonkey: Protecting User Data
December 5, 1998
SJ Mercury: Small portals prove that size matters.
Dan Gillmor.
This is great... from Dan Gillmor's site at SJ Mercury. A message just for PR folks.
New York Times: The Latest Internet Buzzword: Community
Web Techniques: A Conversation with Charles F. Goldfarb
TechWeb: Netscape Updates E-Commerce Suite
Web Review: Stand Up for Human Rights.
Michael Swaine.
ChannelSeven: ZDNet Serves Up Tasty BannerWraps.
Case study of ZDNet use of alternative banner ads.
MSNBC: Ahh ... calm computing ;-).
Ubiquitous computing from Xerox PARC.
December 6, 1998
NY Times: Aiming Web Ads More Effectively.
Who does the fact checking at the NY Times? "Travelocity, owned by Microsoft Corp."
ClickZ: Nobody Wants To Read Your Words
NY Times: Amazon reported ready to link to other merchants.
L.L. Bean, the Gap, F.A.O. Schwarz and Brainplay.com are participating.
ZDNN: Net capacity top issue for 1999.
Need to boost speed and capacity of bandwith.
NY Times: Microsoft's Cleartype Sets Off Debate on Originality.
John Markoff.
Forbes: The resolution game.
Sidebar talks about Cleartype.
ZDNN: Birth of an accidental community.
Community sites evolving on the Web.
December 7, 1998
Random Thoughts: Linking 1-2-3
NY Times: Online Booksellers: A Tale of Two C.E.O.'s.
Profile of Jonathan Bulkeley, CEO of Barnesandnoble.Com.
Computer Reseller News: Web Authoring Spec Gets IETF Blessing.
Along with OpenPGP in November, WebDAV is also given the "proposed standard" status from the IETF.
Internet World: Simplifying Web Document Sharing.
WebDAV implementations.
ZDNN: Portals: Not Just For Consumers Anymore.
Enterprise information portals, business to business.
Industry Standard: A Real Bold Move.
RealNetworks as a multimedia portal?
Smart Reseller: Setting Up Mom & Pop.
Microsoft's plans to use scaled down version of Site Server for small businesses.
ZDNN: A note on our redesign.
Executive Producer at ZDNet News Patrick Houston comments on ZDNN's redesign.
Yahoo News: Microsoft in pact with barnesandnoble.com
News.Com: Netscape's new layout engine: Gecko.
Past names: Raptor, NGLayout and now Gecko.
December 8, 1998
Industry Standard: Netscape and Sun to Merge Application Servers.
Sun's HotJava browser and Netscape's Navigator will be combined and written in Java.
News.Com: Amazon.com to offer links to other retailers.
Comparison shopping of products with technology from Amazon purchase of Junglee to be featured.
ClickZ: It Takes A Village To Build A Web Site.
How to compete with portals by being small.
Web Techniques: Stretching the Concept of the Document.
Tim Bray.
Macromedia Press Release: Macromedia Ships Director 7 Shockwave Internet Studio and Dreamweaver 2
Freedom Forum: The technological mystique: peering ahead.
"On the Net, however, community and individual expression have always been the killer app, and will almost surely always be."
ZDNN: Power outage hits the Net.
San Francisco, several websites in the area are down.
ZDNet AnchorDesk: The Email Market is About to Explode.
Jesse Berst.
TechWeb: Cnet Will Combine Sites.
HotWired has been bringing everything closer together as well.
Web Techniques: XML Opportunities Knocking.
Second installment of interview with Charles Goldfarb.
Internet World: New HTML Standard To Use XML, Emphasize Function Over Layout
December 9, 1998
Salon: What Does Technology Want?
Q&A with Kevin Kelly and his new book New Rules for the New Economy.
Editor & Publisher: Online News Association Forming; Interactivity, Part 2.
Steve Outing. Online News Association forming by next spring and responses to previous story on interactivity.
FEED Magazine: Apple's Soft Sell.
Steven Johnson. Sherlock and banner advertisements on the desktop.
Industry Standard: Jini to Take a Bow Next Month.
Scott McNealy demonstrates some Jini-enabled devices at the Java Business Expo.
News.Com: NSI teams with Centraal on Web names.
Network Solutions is in a marketing, investment and customer support deal with Centraal and their
RealNames system.
IETF: Human Friendly Names BOF.
Orlando Meetings. Will discuss systems like Real Names. BOF is Birds of a Feather which are there to be "a single, brief discussion or to
ascertain interest and establish goals for a working group."
News.Com: Papers, Net news in happy cohabitation
NY Times: Computer Pioneer Is Given a 30th Anniversary Celebration.
Douglas C. Engelbart.
Red Herring: Steve Ballmer explains Microsoft's Internet strategy.
Q&A.
Builder.Com: 1998 Builder.Com Awards.
Web Tools.
News.Com: Lycos moves into e-tailing.
Lycos opens their own online store.
December 10, 1998
RCFoC: "Something Very Little, Will Be Something Very Big".
Among other things, a look at ubiquitous computing from Xerox PARC.
News.Com: Burns to reintroduce crypto legislation.
Senator tries to relax US control on encryption exports.
Wired News: Is Strong Crypto a Human Right?
...specifically the 12th article of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights that states that privacy is a basic human right...
Salon: You've Got Sendmail.
Eric Allman takes sendmail commercial.
InfoWorld: The Web commerce evolution is complete at Egghead.com
Industry Standard: Web Journalists Look for Respect, Form Support Group
Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS.
Report from Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution at Stanford yesterday.
NY Times: Not Every Maker Wants Its Products Sold on the Net.
Some companies hedge their bets on how they will sell online.
Freedom Forum: BBC Online plans to succeed by surviving while other new Web sites fail
December 11, 1998
News.Com: WebTV turnaround on Real Audio.
WebTV plans upcoming support for Real Audio 5 and Java on their boxes.
Industry Standard: Drugstore.com Gets Help From a Friend.
A preview of DrugStore.com and their new purple and black logo.
News.Com: Blackout boosts Web outsourcing firms.
After the San Francisco blackout, companies consider locating their sites at dedicated web hosting operations.
Forbes: The brick wall.
Crashing into the wall to get people to pay for content.
MSNBC: Amazon.com leads in appeal but not price, survey says
Editor & Publisher: 'What Has This Got To Do With News?'
Steve Outing. Business vs. editorial, interactivity and directory journalism.
Freedom Forum: Yahoo! Internet Life shows where online action is.
Jon Katz.
Advertising Age: Razorfish opens two online stores.
The Razorfish Catalog and Disinfo Headshop.
Wired News: Parliamentary Procedure.
How informed are MPs in England on encryption, online privacy and e-commerce issues.
December 12, 1998
EE Times: Unix inventors win technology medal.
Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie awarded the 1998 National Medal of Technology.
Red Herring: Will Gecko Stick to the Desktop?
Getting Netscape's new HTML layout engine into consumer devices.
Wired News: Music Industry to Take on MP3.
Recording Industry Association of America looks to create an alternative to the MP3 standard with controls
that include a purchase system.
Communication Arts: Design Masters.
Bradbury Thompson, Paul Rand, Marget Larsen and Saul Bass featured so far.
InfoWorld: Macromedia provides the necessary tools to keep your Web content scalable
December 13, 1998
Useit.Com: Bill Gates' Christmas Shopping List to Build the Internet Desktop.
Very interesting Alertbox today, well when isn't it? Jakob looks to some key areas to support
an Internet desktop: micropayments, quality search, navigation-oriented authoring and
web scripting.
NY Times: Click Here for Less Confusion.
How sites are redesigning with users in mind.
Salon: Information theory and practice.
Two book reviews. Once upon a time, "information" didn't even exist. Now it's everywhere.
TechWeb: Vendors Broaden Site-Management Tools.
New load-balancing and website-monitoring tools as more business-critical Web applications deployed.
SJ Mercury: A look back at fascinating year for tech.
Dan Gillmor.
NY Times: With Go Network, Disney Steps Into the Portal Wars.
Interesting introduction with usability testing of GO Network.
News.Com: Disney and Infoseek raise the curtain on Go
December 14, 1998
Today's Links Story: Stop and Look at GO
TechWeb: Lycos Tries New Revenue Model.
Recruiting affiliates to offer e-mail, homepages and other services in exchange for advertising space with
shared advertising revenue.
News.Com: Windows for the rest of us.
Q&A with Steve Capps from September 1996 after he made the move to Microsoft. He's working on Bill's
Christmas List.
ZDNN: U.S. lightening crypto controls?
Presidential subcommittee expected to support export of 128 bits encryption technology.
TechWeb: Netscape To Offer Custom Portals.
Portals customized for corporate customers with advertising supported free version and per user year subscriptions
for more complex portals with no ads.
ZDNN: Wired News gets new editor-in-chief.
George Shirk from SF Gate along with two new journalists.
Industry Standard: Conflicting Views of Online Shopping.
The two obvious ways to approach the e-commerce holiday boom for journalists.
DaveNet: Bill's Christmas List.
In the rush to the web, we lost sight that the web is still a nascent application platform...
December 15, 1998
ClickZ: Welcoming Your Web Site In From The Cold.
Even with a website, does your company need to integrate the website into day-to-day operations
at a storefront?
TechWeb: Apple To Ship PowerPC With Linux.
New line of PowerPCs that include Linux for Apple's educational customers and it won't
be a retail product.
Useit.Com: Jakob spotlights two NY Times articles
on companies pondering the move online and GO Networks recent debut.
Wired News: RIAA Unveils Anti-MP3 Plan.
Recording Industry Association of America launches Secure Digital Music Initiative with several record labels and tech companies.
Industry Standard: Tracking Media Metrix.
Plans to make available results of individual Web-usage patterns for clients in 1Q99.
Editor & Publisher: Congress Protects Copyrights on the Web.
Upside: 43 Reasons Why Wired Sucks.
Glad to see people have so much free time these days with the advent of computers.
Freedom Forum: Disney's Go.com: tragic kingdom.
Jon Katz. The future is dull, safe and greedy. And it's here.
NY Times: Internet Is Credit Card Industry's New Best Friend.
Mastercard and Visa love the potential of e-commerce.
December 16, 1998
Industry Standard: First Chink in Excite's Armor.
Excite ponders how to approach their agreements with Netscape and AOL.
News.Com: Net heavyweights push caching proposal.
Inktomi, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Sun Microsystems submit Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol to IETF.
News.Com: Iraq air strikes consume Net news sites
MSDN Online: The Flip Side of Web Applications.
Robert Hess. Using concepts from Windows DNA in web applications to solve specific client-side scenarios.
News.Com: Netscape to unveil "edgy" ad campaign.
Netscape announcing new advertising campaign for Netcenter with print, radio and television.
MacWeek: Sherlock generates e-commerce profits for Apple.
Apple's Sherlock search utility is generating revenue through plugins to sites like Amazon in an affiliate
type relationship.
ZDNN: Netscape To Cut Mozilla's Cord?
Jamie Zawainksi from Mozilla.Org thinks that a plan last month to insulate Netscape from legal liability from Mozilla work by
making it a non-profit may be considered again in the future.
Editor & Publisher: When Shopping Malls Go Interactive.
Steve Outing. How do malls compete with their online competitors?
Wired News: Humane Designs for Cube Farms.
Q&A with creator of Herman Miller's Aeron, Equa, and Ergon for a look at workplaces and computers.
ZD Interactive Investor: Amazon.com en route to $400 a share?
"As with all Internet stocks, an Amazon.com valuation is clearly more art than science..."
December 17, 1998
Today's Link Story: Goodbye CKS.Com
SJ Mercury: There's more to the world than just tech.
Dan Gillmor.
TechWeb: Customers Can Ask Dudley On Dell Website.
Dell is now using a natural-language search engine to help users get technical support on their website.
Useit.Com: Jakob spotlights a News.Com Perspectives column.
Having loyal customers are gaining importance versus just watching page views.
RCFoC: Gutenberg's A Piker
News.Com: CompuServe gets a mainstream makeover.
CompuServe's website redesign unveiled and is the first step to allow members access to the
service when not using CompuServe's software. And to possibly open up as a portal to the general public.
News.Com: USWeb, CKS complete merger deal.
With the merger complete, USWeb and CKS should resolve to find a good name for the company in the new year.
News.Com: Siemens enters ad-busting space
Online Journalism Review: Online News Association Needs to Reach Out.
What remains to be seen is whether they can translate that praiseworthy goal into a broad-based grassroots effort that includes not just senior executives but rank-and-file online journalists.
Computer Shopper: Privacy, Please!
Review of the W3C proposal for Platform for Privacy Preferences Project.
Freedom Forum: Coverage of technology grows with tech's increased importance, says ABC reporter
Computer Shopper: Dynamic 2-D.
A look into vector graphics and a look at some of the submissions to the W3C.
NY Times: In the Wake of Declining Ad Income, Ziff-Davis Looks for New Revenue Sources.
Ziff-Davis magazines looking to nontechnology advertisers for their magazines.
Builder.Com: What you--and I--missed at CNET Builder.com Live!
A few reports from the Builder.Com conference held in New Orleans last week.
December 18, 1998
Industry Standard: Reading the Fine Print on Privacy.
Center for Democracy and Technology launches new Privacy Watchdog site to provide information
and survey users on privacy initiatives at other sites.
Wired News: 'Sun Violated My Privacy'.
Sun customer upset after opting out of receiving offers and mailings from Sun's business partners but still received solications.
The Economist: Bad news for trees.
Despite the advent of electronic books, ever more information will go on meaning ever more paper...
Red Herring: Search engines graduate to funding.
Google and Direct Hit both raise funding for their second-generation search engines.
Computer Shopper: Search tools and portals seek more accurate results.
Ask Jeeves, Alexa, Real Names and DirectHit are some of the tools mentioned that are trying to provide quality searches.
Freedom Forum: Amid impeachment, 2 newsmagazines feature entertainment.
Jon Katz.
Web Review: Closing Out the Web Year.
A look back at a web year, "We want the Web to serve as a foundation, as a platform."
ZDNN: @Home acquires Narrative.
Narrative and their Enliven interactive ad technology become a unit of @Home for $89 million dollars.
NY Times: Governments Expand Restrictions On Internet, Report Says.
Fifty years after the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with its guarantee of free expression for all, the world's newest form of mass communication is under attack around the globe from laws, policies and police actions seeking to restrict content.
December 19, 1998
Useit.Com: Spotlight of the TiVo personalized TV service.
Upside: When Good Sites Die.
Sites that aren't blessed with infinitely energetic, obsessed staffs (or enough cash behind them to finance living simulacrums of the above) tend to go stale fast.
SJ Mercury: Go Network is no Internet mighty mouse
MSNBC: In war of the Amazon analysts, investors turn backs on Merrill.
Merrill Lynch analyst pegs $50 target price for Amazon while stock reaches for the $300 mark.
SJ Mercury: Revolution online just beginning.
Dan Gillmor. ``It's not an application,'' he says. ``It's an environment.''
Center for Democracy and Technology: Privacy Watchdog
News.Com: @Home seeks blended ads, commerce.
Analysis on the @Home deal to buy Narrative Communications.
Hewlett Packard: HP Instant Delivery.
An offshoot from a previous product called HP Web PrintSmart, the program automatically
retrieves and prints content from selected publishers.
InfoWorld: NetObjects' Samir Arora knows the way from Web sites to intranets.
Q&A with NetObjects CEO.
Webmonkey: Browser Wish List 1998.
Jeffrey Veen. Frankly, the themes haven't changed this year. But there has been some change, some improvement.
December 20, 1998
ClickZ: New Strategies For A New Age.
If you don't feed your audience, your competition will surely feed on your floundering business.
ClickZ: The Blurring of Church and State.
Where's the line between editorial and advertising?
ZDNN: New portals break the mold.
"In 1999, these guys are going to start differentiating themselves from one another..."
SJ Mercury: Portals are prize in valley `Dating Game'.
Chris Nolan. Excite and Lycos looking at their options.
NY Times: Adobe's New Products Fail to Banish Skepticism
Netscape Open Studio: Net Luminaries Foretell the Future.
Glenn Davis, Carl Steadman, Drue Miller, and Derek Powazek.
Salon: Yes, there is a better search engine.
Scott Rosenberg. Another story on the need for quality searches, this time Google is featured.
XML.Com: The Trouble With Browsers.
Tim Bray. We want to browse XML documents, we want to use stylesheets, and we want to run code in the browser. Why is this hard?
XML.Com: A Tale of Two Browsers...or Kids, Don't Try This at Home.
Glenn Davis.
December 21, 1998
SJ Mercury: Charities need season's greetings more than I do.
Dan Gillmor.
Interactive Week: The Interactive 101: The Year In Review
Salon: Net stocks: Who said "irrational"?
Well, if that was irrational exuberance, we must be well into the land of demented mania by now.
Inktomi Press Release: Concentric Network Delivers Hosting Industry's First "Peak Insurance" Service For Internet Content and Media Providers Based on Inktomi Technology
ZDNet AnchorDesk: Revealed: Your Internet Future.
Swami Berstananda.
Forbes: Welcome to startup country.
Gateway looks to augment their mail order PC business with showrooms and human salespeople.
Interactive Week: GeoCities, Microsoft Think Affiliates.
GeoCities and Microsoft's LinkExchange are setting up affiliate networks to get publishers to send
customers to online merchants.
TechWeb: IBM Unveils E-Commerce Chip.
The chip is expected to aid e-commerce applications by managing thousands of network connections simultaneously.
News.Com: How low can you go?
While most Web sites are shifting from a content model to a commerce model, Buy.com is using commerce to draw eyeballs.
Industry Standard: Why NYC Wants DoubleClick to Stick.
How NYC is starting to fight to keep their new media companies.
Industry Standard: E-Christmas: Many Unhappy Returns?
The holiday shopping boom is good news for Web retailers, but overnight success can be hard to handle.
December 22, 1998
NY Times: In the E-Mail Age, Paper Cards Are Booming.
"We're hoping that young people don't lose the art of writing and communicating with handwritten notes..."
Builder.Com: Real Web builders in the real world.
Learn what some web builders at Builder.Com's conference were talking about.
devhead: Redesign: When and How.
Jakob Nielsen shares some strategies in redesigning a site: a refresh and full-scale redesign.
ZDNet AnchorDesk: Smarter Searches: Why Search Engines Are *Again* the Web's Next Big Thing.
Jesse Berst. The past week has brought a lot of these quality search stories to the forefront.
ZDNN: Time Warner looking at CDNow?
CDNow reported to have had talks with Time Warner about an investment.
News.Com: Online calendar services taking off.
"They're coming in at a time when there's a lot of other players doing this."
Freedom Forum: Digital democracy would help bring government by the people.
Jon Katz. It's time for an Open Source political movement.
News.Com: RSA conducts crypto-cracking contest.
The contest is to crack a fixed-key size, 56-bit DES cipher.
Industry Standard: When Analyst Mary Meeker Talks, Net Stocks Go Bananas.
"We dread the day when she decides to downgrade the stocks."
InfoWorld: Net groups bemoan encryption changes.
Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Engineering Steering Group oppose new restrictions
in the Wassenaar Arrangement and the effect it will have on the availability of strong
cryptography.
NY Times: Online, Main Street Is a Portal Deal.
"...If you build it, you'd better attach it to portals."
Wired News: Wired News Privacy Report Card.
How well are companies doing when entrusted with your personal information?
December 23, 1998
WebTools: Gecko Changes Everything.
Another review of Netscape's new layout program.
Wired News: Let the Web Server Beware.
...the Norwegian supreme court ruled Tuesday that probing computer networks linked to the Internet is not illegal.
InfoWorld: New technology to change shape and capability of PCs.
New processors, Windows 2000, flat panel displays, USB and CD-RW.
InfoWorld: Web sites cater to connections in 1999.
...1999 will see many Web sites respond by offering different visitor experiences based on bandwidth.
Freedom Forum: "The Internet and the First Amendment" conference.
Vint Cerf keynote speaker. January 11, 1999 in Arlington, VA.
News.Com: Live Picture out of focus?
Live Pictures restructures and their technology hasn't had much success in getting a foothold in the
market. Anyone remember Flashpix?
Contentious: Roger Ebert on feature-film Web sites.
A brief Q&A with Roger Ebert. Who needs a game, when many of these sites are like a maze to be solved?
December 24, 1998
Today's Links Story: The Apple Store's Christmas Vacation
Boardwatch: New Standards for Content Management Needed.
John C. Dvorak. ...what needs to be done is the creation of a Dewey decimal or Library of Congress type library card system embedded into the page.
Harvard Business School Publishing: Surfing the World Wide Waste: Why Some Web Sites Work-And Others Don’t.
Q&A with David Siegel. Counting hits is ridiculous.
Industry Standard: IBM Trains for the Olympics.
IBM will be using limited real-time data mining on the 2000 Olympics website to analyze traffic
and place all the content within four clicks of the homepage.
Wired: Beyond Digital.
Nicholas Negroponte. Nicholas' last regularly scheduled column on the back page of Wired.
Useit.Com: Jakob spotlights the Apple Store closing for the holidays
until January 5th. A classic example of how a bad website can undermind a company and do active damage to its brand.
InfoWorld: IBM's Internet start-up: alphaWorks.
"We can also wed internal resources with the extended developer community." AlphaWorks' unique place inside IBM.
FEED Magazine: Beyond eBay.
Information needs to be transparent.
News.Com: Compaq to license digital cash technology.
Just a recap of an announcement from the end of November on the product trials for Compaq's
MilliCent technology (aquired from the acquisition of Digital earlier this year).
News.Com: Weighing the pros and cons of Net stocks.
If the opportunity is limited, it is not an Internet stock.
Wired News: No, the Check's Not in the Mail.
Banks look to new technologies to solve the rising costs in handling paper cheques.
December 25, 1998
Merry Christmas from Tomalak's Realm!
Random Thoughts: Christmas Note 1998
NY Times: Internet Strikers Protest High Cost of Access
NY Times: A Major Growth Year for Cyberlaw.
A panel of legal experts were asked what the most important law story was for 1998.
December 26, 1998
Today's Link Story: Update on The Apple Store
Photo.Net: Collaboration Machines.
Philip Greenspun. Every place that people congregate should have a Web browser, permanently connected to the Internet, with a display large enough to be seen by all present.
AtNewYork: Ten Business Plans to Watch in 1999.
Audible, Bolt, Boutique Y3K, Cha! Technologies, CommunityConnect, dELIA*s, Interactive Connection,
Sotheby's, Up-Set and Vault Reports.
December 27, 1998
NY Times: To Tax or Not to Tax Online Sales?
Useit.Com: Predictions for the Web in 1999.
Jakob takes a look at some trends for 1999: Mobile access to the Internet, Resurgence of
Web Standards, Automated Customer Service, Web Patent Bonanza and Y2K Problems.
NY Times: Technology Patents Lead to String of Lawsuits.
Zealous patent litigators are tutoring entrepreneurs in the art of legal combat.
I read this story yesterday and might be of interest in light of Jakob's predictions.
Yahoo Internet Life: 1999 Predictions.
Roger Ebert predicts micropayments, Vinton Cerf, John Perry Barlow, Jaron Lanier, Kevin Kelly
and lots of other people.
December 28, 1998
SJ Mercury: Don't be a fool on Internet stocks.
Dan Gillmor.
NY Times: '99: A Year to Make Good on Electronic Commerce.
...Internet experts were asked to predict the next 12 months in five distinct areas: Internet speed, fraud, consumer-oriented retail, advertising, and the software and technology demands of e-commerce sites.
NewMedia Magazine: Changing Content.
Nathan Shedroff. Content has never had to change -- until now.
NewMedia Magazine: The Pay-Per-View Net.
To date, Web publishers have relied on cost-per-thousand (CPM)-based advertising, just as they do in the physical world. That will change.
Business Week: Who runs a web site? It may soon get harder to find out.
Network Solutions' plans to overhaul the WHOIS database.
CNNfn: E-commerce spurs servers.
As online merchants grapple with growing traffic, Web servers fill vital need.
News.Com: The missing links to domain competition.
Competition for Network Solutions and domain name registration on the way?
FEED Magazine: The man can't stop our format.
Carl Steadman. The portable Rio MP3 player.
Adweek: Analysis: The Best-Kept Secrets.
The story of online news aggregators. "You don't want to give away all our secrets, do you?"
ZDNN: Corporate cyberphobes shift sights.
Companies such as Xerox, Johnson & Johnson are finally ready to embrace the Web.
December 29, 1998
Industry Standard: E-commerce Predictions for 1999.
"Next year, customer-service leaders are going to emerge and distinguish themselves on things that have nothing to do with technology..."
Editor & Publisher: Shopping Play Needed for Web '99 Game Plan.
Steve Outing. ...online shopping and news sites' role in facilitating -- and benefitting from -- the cyber revolution in retailing.
Useit.Com: Jakob spotlights a post by Jon Katz on Slashdot talking about lurkers and participation
inequalities.
News.Com: Indy bookstore blames Net for demise.
Palo Alto bookstore is closing and co-owner points to Amazon as the last straw that broke the camel's back.
TechWeb: Customer Service Goes Live On The Net.
Q&A with company developing software for human-to-human customer service. Might be of interest
in light of Jakob Nielsen's predictions for 1999 and Automated Customer Service.
PC Week: Kana manages customer e-mail.
Another customer service program that manages e-mail requests with some natural language processing
to "...respond, suggest or route the messages...".
Freedom Forum: There will be a special corner in 'Geek Hall of Fame' for Paul Erdos.
Jon Katz. His life was the pure pursuit of the beauty, truth and knowledge he found in numbers.
TechWeb: Meta-Search Companies Break New Ground.
A new breed of Internet services is piggybacking on offerings from other companies, and in many cases, these services are offered without the targeted companies' permission.
December 30, 1998
EE Times: XML draft addresses post-PC world.
W3C's HTML Working Group last month published a working draft for "reformulating HTML in XML."
Builder.Com: Building Web sites for kids
News.Com: Public signs on to e-commerce in '98.
Top ten e-commerce stories.
Forbes: Guiding light.
Small business spending on web site maintenance and hosting will grow to more than $12.5 billion by 2002.
Industry Standard: Get Me Rewrite.
"The biggest challenge for journalism and news in this environment will just be surviving."
ZDNet AnchorDesk: Credit, E-Cash or Smart Card? How to Make Sense (Cents?) of Online Payment Methods.
Jesse Berst.
News.Com: Portal envy hits the scene.
Year end recap: The Year of the Portal.
Editor & Publisher: Where To Focus News Site Strategy, Part 2
Steve Outing. Consultants forecast where news sites are going in 1999.
December 31, 1998
Editor & Publisher: Expect New Media Shakeups in the New Year.
News Site Web Players Predict What 1999 Will Bring
Web Review: Virtual Documents.
Web Architect. A virtual document is a collection of content chunks that are dynamically assembled from a variety of sources
into a visual container that a user experiences as a document.
Web Review: Web Graphics Roundup.
Brief review of ImageReady, ImageStyle and Fireworks.
Boston Phoenix: Bugging out.
World Future Society's Top 10 Predictions from Outlook '99 and the Popcorn Report. Welcome to 1999, the year of living dangerously.
Wired News: Fear and Loathing in Cupertino.
"...They are absolutely rabid to close up leaks. To the point that they find it hard to tolerate accurate and fair reporting."
Industry Standard: Looser U.S. Rules Won't Cool Crypto Debate in 1999
MSNBC: Steve Case’s three C’s give way to new media formula for AOL.
Community, communications and context.
Upside: Inktomi's Search for Treasure.
Dave Peterschmidt president and CEO of Inktomi.
News.Com: XML to "revolutionize" info exchange.
A Zona Research report says XML will revolutionize the exchange of business information.
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