Internet Digest #4 for 1996-01-22
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Internet News and Articles - -
Best Sites of the Week
HTML Help - -
Marketing
The Internet Digest is a publication for Webmasters, HTML programmers, and anyone interested in learning more about the internet. Internet Digest is a convenient way for you to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Internet Digest Focuses on helping you with page design basics, and explaining HTML and how the Web works, and the technical aspects of running, administering, and marketing WorldWideWeb sites.
Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0 Beta 1
Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0 is currently only available for Windows 95 or NT.
ftp://ftp2.netscape.com/Gold/g32e20b1.exe!3.5.5.4"
Also ftp 3-9
Skepticism surrounds Apple, Sun report
Acquiring Apple would give Sun a viable consumer-level desktop offering, but getting the two companies in sync could take more work than Sun is prepared for, if the deal comes to fruition.
Compaq 1995 Sales Reach Record $14 Billion
HOUSTON, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1996 JAN 25 (NB) -- Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ) has reported record 1995 sales of $14.8 billion, a 36 percent increase over the previous year.
AST Still Bleeding Red
PC WEEK, 1996 JAN 25 -- By Charles Cooper. AST Research Inc. lost $128.6 million during its second fiscal quarter as the company suffered a sharp decline in revenues.
Bet on Cable, Not ISDN
Cable modem will wipe out ISDN, ensuring the baby Bells will be "outclassed as quickly as cable operators can lay the line," said Emily Green, an analyst at Forrester Research, Cambridge, Mass.
Work-At-Homes Offer Untapped Market
Only about 30 percent of "work-at-homes" surveyed by AT&T;Home Business
Resources subscribe to one of the online services, and only 4 percent surf the Internet. About 25 million people operate home-based businesses according to the study that aimed to identify the lifestyle patterns of people who work at home and assess the physical amenities supporting the U.S. market.
Articles
Big Four struggle for online survival
http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,521,00.html
Creative Workshop
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~markarts/
NASA Shuttle Web
http://shuttle.nasa.gov/
Official information from NASA regarding the Space Shuttle program. View photos, video clips, and hear audio files from past and present Space Shuttle Missions.
FantasyWorlds
http://www.realvirtual.com/fantasyworlds.html
Travel to the 15th Realm by making use of one'simagination, creativity, and wit. Create your own online characterschoosing from multiple physical and behavioral variables.
Highway 17
http://www.got.net/~egallant/the_road.html
Page Of Shame (Jerque du Jour) - Dedicated to those drivers
who hate getting behind slow pokes on the nation's roads.
Family Planet
http://family.starwave.com
News and advice on parenting, including q &;a with child health &;development experts, movie reviews, guides to childrens products, fun stuff for kids, and local activities calendars.
MicroMovie MiniMultiplex
http://www.teleport.com/~cooler/MMMM/MMMM.html
Animated pages! a festival of Nanimation
Travel Channel Online
http://www.travelchannel.com/
Get the inside scoop for serious travelers
NBA.com
http://www.nba.com/
Online basketball jam session with lots of depth.
The BIZ
http://www.bizmag.com/
Entertainment 'zine sizzling with inside info.
Game Gallery Online
http://www.gamegallery.com/
A quirky game shop with loads of offbeat merchandise
Add Yahoo search form on your site!
Include the HTML between the comments in your Web pages:
<!-- Begin Yahoo Search Form -->
<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search">
<INPUT SIZE=30 NAME=p> <INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Yahoo! Search">
</FORM>
<!-- End Yahoo Search Form -->
World Wide Web FAQ
http://www.boutell.com/faq/
Guide to newbie-friendly resources
Webmaster's Notebook
http://www.cio.com/WebMaster/wm_notebook.html
A complete webmaster tutorial and information site including tools and links, online seminars, web reports, a calender of web events, and more.
Webmaster Reference Library
http://www.webreference.com/
A comprehensive reference for HTML authors and webmasters, the WMRL has over 700 carefully selected and annotated web sites plus original articles about the art of web site
Inside Scoop
http://tvp.com/idn/cissue/busins.html
Advertising With PurposeWritten by Tim Vandehey
Government Data
- 1990 Census Data Lookup server - an amazing resource for demographic data
- The 1994 Statistical Abstract is the primary reference book to have in your home, office, school, or library. It contains a collection of statistics on social, economic, and international subjects
- Library of Congress
University of Maryland
- Inforum EconData
- STAT-USA is part of the Economics and Statistics Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. STAT-USA is an information service providing business, economic, social and environmental data.
- Central Intelligence Agency Home Page: Provides data for the Central Intelligence Agency.
- NTDB on the Internet One-stop shopping for export information that is critical for international business.
- U.S. Department Of Commerce Information Services via World Wide Web
- NESE on the Internet: A comprehensive electronic source of information focusing on the United States; it's economy, society, and environment.
- U. S. Bureau of the Census Home Page
- Main Data Bank: provides links to most census related statitistical subjects.
- Federal Trade Commission
- Consumer Information Center Catalog, U.S. General Services Administration
Internet Digest Info
About the Author:
Harold Carey is the president of IBIC Internet Services. He is an International known Author, and Consultant to many Business such as Coca-Cola, McDonnell Information Systems, and States of Utah, and California. He has been interviewed on Radio and Television and has been a newspaper columnist for the Utah County Journal
He created, hosts and maintains over 300 WWW pages and Web sites the latest being the Home Business Center. http://www.homebusiness.com.
. His site at http://www.ibic.com get thousands of accesses a day and email comments and questions from all over the word.
His most popular sites are:
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Programming Netscape 2.0 ...http://www.ibic.com/NIndex/NSIHome.html
Top of the Web .............http://www.ibic.com/IBIC/TopIntro.html
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