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BrightPlanet have a white paper on their deep web.
An important NY Times article about the DeCSS case. Is software protected speech under the First Amendment?
Archive for July, 2000
Lots of nice articles on eCommerce in the McKinsey Quarterly (but you’d expect this, no?).So “Napster” and “Gnutella” are already old hat! The hashing idea is a good one, but I’m keener on the idea of using Infrasearch within an organisation - I think this is where they could massively impact things like “Autonomy”, etc.One of the nastiest problem with Access / VB front ends is trying to update installed users. Finally, there’s a product that appears to fix this for Access. This is why coding for the web is more fun - upgrades are global and instant.Personally, I know more about the Microsoft route, but here’s an interesting article about issues with the Java version of web programming, Java Sever Pages.You should also probably read this; it suggests that Nielsen has it the wrong way round in suggesting that web design is dead. There’s a weblog, too.
Phew. Us non-artists have a 101 on choosing color.
Too much good stuff today (only because I’m getting through back mail!). Stephen King is doing a neat trial of morality-based distribution: You can get two of the first three intstallments, but he’ll only put up the final one if 70% of readers send a nominal $1. Interesting.
Interesting numbers from WSJ on stickiness. Just over 5 pages a day - every day. This sounds quite high to me. However, if you’ve paid for it, and if you’re in the Street, I guess you have to read it heavily.
“Why is everybody so locked into protecting one format? I swear the
Catholic Church changes quicker than the record business.”
- Jimmy Iovine, head of Interscope Records and Farmclub.com
More Upside on b2b. Does this mean that “Datamonitor” should reposition as b2e?
eCommerce wars. Interestingly, CommerceOne got some real revenues from exchange transactions. Ventro, on the other hand, got stuffed.
“Workers about to be laid off at a chemical plant in northern France dumped 3,000 litres of sulphuric acid into a stream that runs into the river Meuse. They threatened to blow up the factory if their demands for new jobs were not met.” And it worked! I just couldn’t see the guys at Longbridge, Dagenham doing the same. English reserve.
Woohoo!
Sick. Cheers, “Dom”.
The US looks likely to try for a bill that would require companies to disclose their e-mail monitoring policy. This has to be a good thing, no? This could definitely stop people using porn at work…
More from Joel: “A top notch web programmer in New York City at a top web development firm, working on a consulting basis, is going to bill about $250 an hour”. So are we really paying a >£300ph charge out for a consultant? Sheesh.
Great article from Joel Spolsky: Microsoft Goes Bonkers. The pitch is that Microsoft’s .Net strategy is vaporware and that Microsoft aren’t even bothering to provide the vapor.
B2E seems to be the new black. Compaq and CMGI are going to sell goods and services over the net.
Now we know: an ‘engaged visitor’ spends more than 3 minutes on your site each day. “Datamonitor” doesn’t do too badly on that measure. Obviously this is to prove that online advertising is a great idea - one of the stats that came out of the AdRelevance data mine was that engaged visitors were on the rise. No mention of actual cash here.
Thanks “Dave” for a couple of great pointers in the LA Times. Read this one to find out about Hail Mary plays and this one to find out that the record industry doesn’t have much time left…
Interesting Upside article about VerticalNet with some fairly staggering figures.
the The have put their mp3s online together with an interesting discussion of why.
Interesting source of information from the EIU on eBusiness.
Neat little article on Forbes: Does your website sing?.24 notes about Napster Read them.WAP is dead (or at least mortally wounded. Nielsen says so - it must be true! Seriously, I’ve been saying this for months.
Multi-web browsing like many skila bars from Lumapath - check it out in this article. “Take me with you” - i.e. choose your web agent.Nice article on why Dublin Core is interesting. WDVL: Are search engines dead?
Good article about the questions to ask re:Choosing the Right Design Partner. Can you answer them all?Interesting interview with Jeff Bezos of Amazon. “We Sell Dollar Bills for $1.20.” So are they ripping us off?So now we know - we’re beeing shafted on long-distance calls. Forbes (7-3-00) Meltdown: “With the cost of physically transporting a call now down to just 7% of what consumers pay, it costs more to bill for a call than to provide it.”
Dave Winer isn’t convinced by Autonomy either: “I was impressed (not) with the list of links they came up with for that story.”An interesting article in Business 2.0: “The consumer now has control of digital content, empowered with these digital tools. The result of this disintermediation must be the introduction of new business models, not the deus ex machina of technology- or legal-based protection schemes. The true financial value of art cannot be gleaned from selling it over the counter or off the back of a track from a warehouse.”Here are some thoughts (good ones) about writing headlines. The Raphel File. I expect linkrot - there’s no date on the file, etc.Nice one Napster. Not content with merely going up against the labels, they’ve decided to destroy them completely. CNET - Napster: Downloading music for free is legal. I hope they win!
MacEdition : Soup Says!: “The King decreed “To every cow its calf, to every book its copy”, and fined St. Columba 40 head of cattle for making an unauthorized copy. Here’s the deal, though: Finnean of Clonard didn’t write the psalter in question, which is a book full of psalms, he just owned it. The issue decided by Diarmit was about allowing the wealthy and powerful to control the flow of knowledge, and allowing the commoditization of information. ” Soooo. Copyright was invented along the lines that the record companies use it, not to protect ‘inventors’!. Things I never knew.The web started here. Amazing to be TBL and see that the whole world is using your view on how things should work.So now it’s clear. Paul Maritz of Microsoft says:”We don’t know precisely whether we’ll get paid for everything”. So .Net is based on them being paid for something and being so ubiquitous that they make billions.PS I’ve been on holiday for a week.
Here’s a nice distillation of what the whole .Net strategy is about… Salon.com tech | Microsoft’s .Net: Visionary or vaporware?
