Internet Digest for 01-July-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


China to grow to 120,000 Internet

Xinhua news agency said China will have 120,000 Internet users by the end of 1996, up from around 1,700 at the end of 1993. Experts estimate the number of Internet users in China will reach one million by the end of 2000.


NBC and Intel are announcing the Olympic launch of Intercast.

NBC and Intel will deploy the Intercast technology they and others have been working on for some time with NBC's broadcasting of the 1996 summer Olympic Games. "With Intercast you can show several things at once," said Howard High of Intel. The Intercast service that will be launched in July with the Olympics is television programming via PC in which you can get a broadcast on one window of a PC screen and in another window an Internet connection to a Home Page of information. It will have HTML-links to other World Wide Web sites. The Olympic Games, in which multiple sporting events occurring at once, offer a prime way to demonstrate the Intercast technology's appeal.


Internet's growing fast in Latin America

The experts estimated that about 400,000 people use the Internet in Latin America, with about 100,000 of those in Mexico and 100,000 in Brazil. Internet use in Latin America is growing dramatically. In Argentina a year ago, there were 5,000 users and that has grown to 50,000. The growth represents a big opportunity for computer sellers because market penetration in Latin America is so small. For example, Microsoft estimated 11 million Americans use the Net and some estimate it as high as 30 million.


MCI plans to invest $60 million in Internet network.

The investment in new equipment will quadruple the backbone speed from 155 megabits per second to 622 megabits by the end of the year, MCI said. These upgrades are the second phase of MCI's Internet 2000 program announced in March when MCI tripled the capacity of its Internet backbone from 45 megabits to 155 megabits.


Articles


Internet Commerce SET for Takeoff
http://www.zdnet.com/cshopper/content/9607/cshp0061.html
An Intelligent Approach to Web Searching
http://www.pcmag.com/news/trends/t960627e.htm
Your Friendly Neighborhood Web Site
http://www.pcmag.com/news/trends/t960627a.htm
Internet domain-name scheme raises eyebrows
http://www.pcweek.com/news/0624/28enic.html
What A Difference A Year Makes on the web
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/tc960618.html
Technology Experts Look 50 Years Into Future
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/960628d.html


Best Sites of the Week


Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com

SlugVideo Cameras atop the Dream Inn
http://sapphire.cse.ucsc.edu/SlugVideo/dream-inn.html


Top Five, a hilarious daily list
http://www.topfive.com

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
http://www.disney.com/DisneyPictures/Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame/

Career Magazine
http://www.careermag.com

Searchable job postings from major Internet newsgroups, resumes, employer profiles, career links and oh so much more.


MCI Library Link - links and access to the nation's libraries
http://www.librarylink.com

Citylink's Independence Day page
http://www.usacitylink.com/usa/

Smithsonian magazine
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/

"Weird Al" Yankovic's Webpage
http://www.allamermusic.com

Home Care with Ron Mason
http://204.58.152.70/pub/aen/home.htm

HTML CGI and Programming Help


Lynda's Homegurrl Page
http://www.lynda.com/

Resource for Web design; animated.gifs, color palettes and other useful stuff like how to concoct your own Web page backgrounds.


Weblint Gateways
http://www.khoros.unm.edu/staff/neilb/weblint/gateways.html

Web Wonk- David Siegel's Tips for Writers and Designers
http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/

XMCD - A CD Player utility package with a Motif GUI
http://sunsite.unc.edu/~cddb/xmcd/

All Animated - Lots of animated GIFs free to download
http://www.grida.no/~knudsen/animated/

The Wonderful World of...
http://www.bendnet.com/users/brianhovis/

A brief tutorial of how to make GIF animation as well as
many software tools to make your own HTML pages.


Internet Planet
http://www.telepath.com/benw/iplanet/

WAV and MOD sound files, JPGs for backgrounds, and animated GIFs for your web site.


RealTime on Demand - 7 p.m. et, RealAudio from CBC Stereo Radio
http://www.cbcradio.com/RealTime/thisweek/thisweek'sshow.html

Jack Styczynski's Page Internet hot sheet .
http://www.wp.com/hotsheet/

House, The - large collection of free 1950's clipart.
ftp://ftp.thehouse.com.au/pub/artroom/

American Association of Domain Names
http://www.domains.org/

Marketing Articles and Sites


European advertisers rush to Web

Advertisers around Europe had been rushing to set up Websites to market and sell everything from breakfast cereals to cars, but few have reaped tangible benefits from interactive advertising, which has tended to be informative rather than innovative. Many press and TV ads now carry Web addresses but advertising executives said many people only visited commercial Websites once. The typical user in Europe is male, aged between 22 and 36 and earns $20,000 to $30,000 a year. Companies in Europe are expected to spend less than $100 million on the Internet this year, the Financial Times said recently, but the figure is expected to grow exponentially in the next few years. By 2002, more than 200 million people will be wired and 150 million will subscribe to on line services, according to Durlacher Multimedia, a British multimedia researcher.


Cable Operators Stand Good Chance in Internet Market

In a survey of 2,140 consumers whose household incomes were above $25,000, a slim majority said they'd prefer to have a single source for multiple services such as telephone, cable TV and Internet access.

Along those lines, price probably will be the key to winning consumers in the "one-stop shopping" market, said Bellcore's Janilee Johnson: "I think it indicates there just hasn't been a company that has distinguished itself in the market yet."

Other findings of the Bellcore study:
* Some 48% of respondents prefer to have a video sent to
their home electronically vs. going to a retail outlet.
* Some 20% haven't and won't use a credit card to purchase
products and services online, but 70% would like to pay
bills electronically.
* Some 93% of the respondents interested in electronic
communication would like to renew their driver's license,
register their vehicles and register to vote electronically.


Visa, MasterCard set new online bankcard standards

MasterCard International and Visa International say they published revised specifications for secure bankcard transactions on the Internet and other open networks. The standards were developed with major corporations that include GTE, IBM, Microsoft and Netscape.


Nonprofit group expands vistas of E-commerce
http://www.pcweek.com/news/0701/01ecom.html

Bellcore Surveys Interactive Interests
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/m960625a.html

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