Sunday, June 30, 2002
Internet
New Services For News Junkies
Lycos has added a news-only search service that re-indexes 3,000 online news sites every minute.
Saturday, June 29, 2002
Internet
Getting To Know You
Online newspapers are requiring users to register — but at what cost?
'Digital Divide' Less Clear
Researchers mining the data from their survey of 2,000 U.S. households recently came across an interesting fact about the "digital divide." There isn't one.
NPR Retreats, Link Stink Lingers
There are still limits on linking to the nonprofit radio network's site.
FTC Wants Paid Search To Shape Up
The Federal Trade Commission on Friday said search-engine companies need to clearly mark paid listings on their sites, concluding an 11-month investigation.
ICANN To Net Users: No, You Can't
ICANN voted on Friday to exclude ordinary Web surfers from its board, a move critics say allows mainstream interests to tighten their grip on the online world.
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Internet
Jupiter To Dissolve With Division Sales
Struggling research firm Jupiter Media Metrix says its board has approved a plan to liquidate and dissolve the company once it has finalized the sale of several businesses.
CNET To Cut Staff, Miss Sales Forecasts
CNET Networks, which operates Web sites offering news, shopping information and other technology items, said Thursday it would cut 10 percent of its work force and warned its second-quarter sales would be short of forecasts.
Way Beyond The Banner
New online ad formats are whirling, shaking, popping, and tilting all over the Web.
Cybersquatters Put On The Hot Seat
CANN said at its quarterly meeting that it was close to adopting a new system to give owners of domain names extra time to renew their contracts and to establish a waiting list for coveted domains that become newly available to the public.
Kiss Your MP3s At Work Goodbye
Companies increasingly are blocking access to Internet music and video at firewalls and are issuing sweeping initiatives that ban workplace media usage.
Deep Linking's Legal Link On Hold
After two days of hearings, a Danish court has delayed making a decision in a closely watched case that could determine the legality of "deep linking" in Denmark and other European Union countries.
Archive To Hold History Of The Dot-Com Era
Historians will be able to look back 200 years from now and read the original proposal for Boo.com or Kozmo.com or eToys.com and hear audio histories from executives and worker bees from the companies.
Spam: An Escalating Attack Of The Clones
A kind of arms race may have developed, those analysts say: the more efforts are made to block unwanted e-mail, the more messages spammers send to be sure that some will get through.
The Semantic Argument Web
Normalization of metadata works real well in confined applications where the payoff is high, control is centralized and discipline can be enforced. In other words: not the Web.
Board The Weblog Bandwagon Now, Please
Newspapers missed most internet trends; isn't it time to catch one?
Charge For Your Content? The Three Criteria
Publishing: free or fee?
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Internet
Want Wi-Fi? Learn The Secret Code
Warchalking, as the practice has been coined by Matt Jones, entails simply drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement to indicate the presence of a wireless networking node.
Net Cafes Trouble Vietnam
Communist-ruled Vietnam said Wednesday that it is looking to tighten controls on Internet cafes, which are an increasing challenge to the state's media monopoly.
Is It Time To Stop The Pop-Ups?
Companies are struggling with the concept of "adware"—programs bundled with other downloaded software that monitor consumers' Web browsing and serve them ads based on their online habits.
Declare E-Mail Independence
Big e-mail providers snap their fingers, and the masses obey, like sheep. But there's a way to reclaim control.
Lawmaker Tries To Foil Illegal File-Sharing
While content owners now can try to block access to intellectual property pirates, they cannot use the range of technological options that they want, chiefly because some tactics are illegal under state and federal law.
Yahoo To End Broadcasting Services
Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. is scrapping two free broadcasting services: FinanceVision, which provided streaming video clips with business and stock news, and a radio channel that came with its $5 billion acquisition of Broadcast.com, the company disclosed Tuesday.
Palladium Revisited
The future will certainly be about controlling content by technology, so let's hope that this is done in a way that doesn't obliterate fair use and doesn't put Microsoft/VeriSign in control of the competition in the software market.
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Internet
It's All About Connections: On The Net, Speed Thrills
Spam Solution? Make Them Pay
An e-mail gateway start-up is pushing marketers to back a plan that would let spam recipients charge companies for unwanted messages.
Remember When We Had No E-Mail?
James Gleick, author of "What Just Happened," explains what he got right, and wrong, over the last ten years.
Internet's Founders Offer Warnings
It is natural and good that the Internet should grow and evolve. But we must take care not to subvert its most fundamental attributes.
Blogs As Disruptive Tech
How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management Giants.
Is Blogging A Fad?
The Internet has produced significant social phenomena, such as email and the Web. However, it also has produced its share of fads and failures. One phenomenon that currently ranks high on the hype meter is web logs,or blogs. Are blogs a trend or a fad?
Monday, June 24, 2002
Internet
New Research Weighs On Real Shares
RealNetworks shares fell more than 16 percent Monday after a research report suggested that the digital media company maintains only a narrow lead in the competitive streaming media market over Microsoft.
People Choose Net Over Malls, TV
Internet users say high-speed connections have prompted them to spend more time online and less time in traffic, at the mall or on the couch watching television, according to a new study.
Ads: How The Web Can Learn From TV
What qualities found in television are missing in current Internet advertising?
Spam Vs. Spam
The only way to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail may be to harness a million eyeballs and an army of open-source hackers.
In Fights Over .Com Names, Trademark Owners Usually Win
Researchers analyzing an arbitration system set up to resolve disputes over Internet addresses have found that decisions made through the system have substantially broadened the rights of trademark hodlers in cyberspace.
Saturday, June 22, 2002
Internet
Web Thinkers Warn Of Culture Clash
The Internet's potential for promoting expression and empowering citizens is under threat from corporate and government policies that clash with the medium's long-standing culture of openness, some leading Internet thinkers warned.
It Takes A Village To Save A Site
Begging for funds to keep your bankrupt site afloat rarely works. Unless you're Rosty Foster, whose tech community site Kuro5hin just raised $35,000 — and a few eyebrows — in less than a week.
Bush: Bring Back Library Filters
News that the Bush administration is planning to take its library filtering battle to the Supreme Court didn't come as much of a surprise to advocates on either side of the controversy.
Friday, June 21, 2002
Internet
Curtain Call For Webcasts?
Thousands of Internet radio stations may find their transmissions financially jammed after the Librarian of Congress yesterday adjusted the royalty fees that the webcasters must pay musicians and record companies for broadcasting their songs online.
Thursday, June 20, 2002
Internet
Confessions Of An Unabashed Bandwidth Hog
My name is Leslie, and I'm a Net-a-holic.
ICANN, Dotted With Doubts
Role as domain-name manager in danger as criticism grows.
The Librarian's Web Dilemma
How do libraries give adults a free run of the Internet while shielding children from material that may be inappropriate?
Whatever Happened To City Guides?
Now that they've grown up, what have they turned out to be?
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Internet
Foreseeing The Future: The Legacy Of Vannevar Bush
Bush has been hailed as the coneptual creator of "hypertext," laying out the notion of the modern link 50 years before the web became a public phenomenon.
Hotmail POP Mail Users Will Have To Pay
Users of Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Hotmail service will no longer be able to aggregate e-mail from other accounts into their Hotmail account without paying US$19.95 a year for the MSN Extra Storage subscription program, the company said.
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Internet
Web Services: Ready, Set, Wait
l, but for now, they won't do much to revive tech spending.
Apache Admins Screwed By Premature Vuln Report
There's a controversy brewing over the announcement of a new Apache vulnerability similar to the chunked encoding flaws in Microsoft IIS.
Don't Write For Web, Post Reporters Urged
In an effort to draw attention to their contract negotiations with The Washington Post, newsroom union leaders have asked reporters to stop writing for the paper's prize-winning Web site, Washingtonpost.com, until further notice.
Monday, June 17, 2002
Internet
An Internet Pioneer Of The 90's Looks To A Future In Softare
Times have changed since Marc Andreessen co-founded Netscape Communications six years ago. Mr. Andreessen and his new company Loudcloud have changed with them.
Battle Over Access To Online Books
Librarians have seized on the potential of digital technology and offered users free online access to the contents of books from their homes, and they are squaring off with publishers who fear that free remote access costs them book sales.
3 New Rivals To Explorer
The problem with Web browsers is this: The best browser is Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, it is made by Microsoft.
How Google Searches Itself
Google has become one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley by helping millions of Internet users search the Web smarter and faster. But how does this wildly popular search engine find the new ideas that will keep its business moving forward? By "googling" itself.
Saturday, June 15, 2002
Internet
Andreessen: Browser War Aren't Coming Back
Internally at AOL, they don't think about browser market share. They think about getting AOL out to millions of people.
Bush Highlights Broadband Internet Access
But Democrats, consumer groups decry lack of details.
Merrill Brown: After The "Heyday"
In a way, the real surprise about merrill Brown's decision isn't that he's leaving but that he stayed this long. After all, his six years at MSNBC.com broke a personal record for length of time in one job.
Friday, June 14, 2002
Internet
The End Of The Revolution
"Ruling the Root" documents the sorry tale of how the Internet was brought to heel.
What We're Doing When We Blog
What we write about does not define us as bloggers; it's how we write about it.
A Patent On Pop Under Ads?
The filing broadly covers any systematic delivery of a window launched after another, including those on mobile devices like cell phones.
Browser Makes One Last Stab At Challenging Microsoft
A Web browser project run primarily by volunteers and backed by America Online is making one last stab at challenging the dominance of Microsoft.
Thursday, June 13, 2002
Internet
File Sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
An economist says music privacy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't — and he doesn't know why.
The Search-Engine Getaway
For every day I spend outside, I probably spend two days searching for places to go and things I want to see.
Monday, June 3, 2002
Internet
Hypocrites Have APoint On Broadband
There are all kinds of sound reasons to push broadband. Advocates tend to focus on fuzzy notions of goodness, saying that we won't know the best uses of high-speed connections until they're in place and entrepreneurs, entertainers, educators and everyone else figures out what to do with them.
Nissan Vs. Nissan
Is a North Carolina businessman a cybersquatter unfairly pirating the car maker's brand name, or something even worse: A spammer of journalists?
Sure, Security Is Hard, But...
How hard would it have been for the New York Times to send random passwords to its premium users rather than easily guessable passwords?
Sunday, June 2, 2002
Internet
U.S. Web Browsers Continue A Global Turn
What does surprise foreign policy experts is that an eagerness to comprehend the world remains high nearly nine months later.
Saturday, June 1, 2002
Internet
Court Overturns Law Mandating Internet Filters For Public Libraries
A federal court panel struck down a law requiring libraries to filter the Internet for material harmful to minors yesterday, saying the technology blocks so much unobjectionable material that it would violate the First Amendment rights of library patrons.
Google Takes Top Prize In Its Own Contest
Google may be the real winner of the $10,000 contest.