Internet Digest for 20-May-96

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The Internet Digest is a publication for Webmasters, HTML programmers, Corporate Web Page Designers, Netsurfers, 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.

Internet News and Articles


Rent Net, which boasted 5 million hits in April
http://www.rent.net

Rent Net, a Web-based real estate guide, now boasts listings for all 50 states. In addition, the service will provide users with e-mail notification of newly listed apartments. It offers users floorplans, color photos and location maps.


America Online will license security and electronic commerce technologies from CyberCash, IBM, RSA Data Security, Terisa Systems and VeriSign. The technologies, which will include IBM's Cryptolope document containers and RSA's encryption algorithms, will be used both on the proprietary America Online service and as part of Global Network Navigator, AOL's Internet access service.

IBM to form a new home banking company
Tentatively called INET, the service would allow users to pay bills, transfer funds, obtain mortgage rates, and communicate with customer service representatives via their PCs, IBM's global communications network, and eventually over the Internet, according to the report.
The following banks reportedly have signed on to the joint venture: BankAmerica, NationsBank, Fleet Financial Group, First Bank System, Royal Bank of Canada, BayBanks, KeyCorporation, Banc One, and Barnett Banks. The report did not identify the tenth bank.

Philips announces a U.S. version of its CD-Online entertainment machine designed to give users access to email and the Web through their television sets.

CD-Online, which is used with a television set, plays all CD-i software titles, as well as audio, video and photo CDs. It will also come equipped with a 14.4 modem, proprietary Internet software, and the ability to convert text and graphics for NTSC television display.

Philips plans to offer the system for less than $700. For current CD-i owners, an upgrade kit to the Internet version will be available for less than $200. Keyboard will cost another $50.


Sun Microsystems will have a Internet protocol later this year that could deliver data eight to ten times faster than existing protocols such as FTP and HTTP.

Sun will try to make WebNFS a standard protocol for transferring files and Web pages to browsers on PCs and network appliances expected from companies such as IBM, Oracle, and Sun.


Articles



The Boss May Be Looking Over Your Shoulder As You Surf The Web
http://techweb.cmp.com/ia/dailies/nyt.htm#story1

Cable modems as an option for high speed Internet access.
http://techweb.cmp.com/products/cable/cable.htm

Netwatch: Consortium Okays Rating Standards
http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest_columns/136_051596_084004_8134.html

E-mail Will Likely Overshadow Faxes -- Eventually by Bill Gates
http://nytsyn.com/live/Gates/130_050996_194003_2334.html


Best Sites of the Week


Is That A Fact
http://pathfinder.com/pathfinder/fact/

Be a contestant on Pathfinder's live online game show


Internet 1996 World Exposition
http://park.org/

Foreign Languages for Travelers
http://pathfinder.com/Travel/language/

Get hints on pronunciation as you listen to the computer pronounce basic words and phrases from 24 languages.


Indianapolis Racing League
http://www.brickyard.com:80/irl/

The Indianapolis 500, a Memorial Day tradition.


The New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.nejm.org/

The site includes the complete text (with figures and tables) of many features in the print edition.



The Interactive Humor Database:
http://humor.ncy.com/

Kids WB!
http://pathfinder.com/KidsWB/

Brings kids the sights and sounds of the coolest animated shows on TV plus new online and downloadable games that are bound to become their favorites.


HTML CGI and Programming Help


TechHelper, your "virtual helpdesk,"
http://www.techhelper.com

Answers to your most frustrating computing questions, through a
variety of sources including, vendor sites and independent
FAQs


Discover which type of memory you have, which type you
should get, how much you need, and how to add it:
http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Memory/
WebCompare Browser Features Comparison
http://www.webcompare.com/browser-main.html

New HTML Editor GNNpress - Mac & Windows
http://www.tools.gnn.com/press/index.html

Hints on Running a High-Performance Web Server
http://www.apache.org/docs/perf.html

Quantitative Analysis of Five WWW "Search Engines"
http://neal.ctstateu.edu:2001/htdocs/websearch.html

Dee Dee's Collection
http://www.NorCom.mb.ca/deedee/animat.htm

A small collection of some "cool" animated gif's, as well as
some links to " huge" collections.

Marketing Articles and Sites


The Internet As A Marketing Tool
http://www.louisville.edu/~w0geisz1/theint.htm

Everything You Need To Know To Market On The Internet
http://web.idirect.com/~mbsprog/hotsites.html

Postage-Due Marketing
http://www.internet.com:2010/marketing/postage.html

1st Steps: Cool Marketing Resources and Tools
http://www.interbiznet.com/ibn/nomad.html

United States Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup:
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html