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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
Lycos over 50 million
Lycos announced it has surpassed more than 50 million unique
URLs are now in the search engine's database. The biggest leg of the
Point-Lycos-A2Z tripod, Lycos boasts it catalogs more URLs than any
competitor. Competitors have countered variously that they are faster
or more accurate than the Marlboro, Mass.-based pioneer engine on the
Web.
US Net Backbone
Cable and Wireless said today that its Internet Exchange business
unit entered an agreement with Erol's Internet & Computers to
develop a national backbone for Internet access in the United States.
Initial market plans include Washington; Baltimore; Richmond and
Norfolk, Virginia; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Chicago; Boston;
Hartford, Connecticut; and New York.
Netscape Upgrades Home
Page
http://home.netscape.com
The new features, added enable visitors to the site to more easily
find information and resources. PowerStart enables users to tour
through a series of choices, which it stores on the hard drives of
their computers, and each time a user logs on to his or her home page
it is constructed from scratch.PowerStart utilizes the capabilities
of the company's Netscape ONE Open Network Environment, which
includes a stock ticker applet, or small computer program, supplied
by Quote.com, which updates stock prices in real time.
National Archives historic documents
The National Archives and Records Administration is making more
of its vast collection of materials available on the Web. The agency
is releasing a database of documents related to the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy. It also is putting another database
online, with photo and sound clips collected during the past 60
years, called the National Archives Audio-Visual Information Locator,
or NAIL, for short
WebTV at a low price
The WebTV Network was launched last month, and Philips and
Magnavox showed up to announce a joint venture for manufacturing the
hardware. The set, officially titled the Philips Magnavox WebTV, will
cost $329 and will come equipped with a 33-kbps modem, 16-bit stereo
audio output, a credit card reader, a one-thumb remote control for
browsing, and an infrared remote keyboard. It hooks up to a regular
TV set for surfing the Web or sending email.
HP add to
Web-Server Offerings
Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement with Netscape to include
Netscape SuiteSpot server software on the HP 9000 enterprise Web
server product lines. HP also announced it is shipping the following
-- Netscape Enterprise Server, Netscape Proxy Server and Netscape
FastTrack Server software -- on its UNIX(R) system HP 9000 enterprise
Web server product line:
NetHelper, launched this week.
NetHelper offers one-on-one assistance on a wide range of
Internet-related topics, including e-mail, FTP, newsgroups, Web
tools, Telnet, and IRC. Technical support is also provided for
programming in Java, creating Web pages in HTML, or developing
PERL/CGI scripts. Fees for the technical service start at $1.08 per
minute or $65 an hour.
Articles
Republican National Convention Gets Wired
http://netday.iworld.com/textonly/96Aug/0809-rnc.html
Interface
or Interference?
http://netday.iworld.com/devforum/
Software
Developer Takes a Hard Line with Microsoft
http://netday.iworld.com/business/noframes.shtml
InterNIC
Tightens Domain Name Security
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/960809a.html
Best
Sites of the Week
Last Best Thing, The - series from the San Jose Mercury
News.
http://spyglass.sjmercury.com/lastbest/
Blues
Dad
http://www.dads.com
Get a no-punches-pulled view of how a father of the '90s deals
with things like vasectomy, encroaching baldness and "the sheer
terror of 'bonding' on insipid Scouting weekends."
Titanic Live
Online
http://www.discovery.com/DCO/doc/1012/world/specials/titanic/titanicopener.html
Daily updates from the North Atlantic where a crew is scrutinizing
"the wreck with scientific care, as no one has done before."
TV
Net
http://tvnet.com/
Everything from chats and Nielsen ratings to international
programming and forums.
Here's Hollywood
http://www.eonline.com
MLB@Bat
http://www.majorleaguebaseball.com
Scores, highlights, stats, and schedules, MLB@Bat--the official
site of Major League Baseball--offers everything and more for the fan
of America's pasttime, baseball.
1996 Miss Teen USA Pageant
http://www.missteenusa.com/teen96/
HTML
CGI and Programming Help
Free Clip Art from New World Creations
http://www.conknet.com/~r_cloe/
Find free background tiles, buttons, bullets and icons, with a
list of links to other similar sites.
IconAuthor - authoring
tool that lets you create complete Web applications.
http://www.aimtech.com/prodiahome.html
Java Optimization
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/optimization.html
How to optimize your Java programs so that they're smaller,
faster, and more maintainable.
SoftHelp
http://www.softhelp.com
Free technical support including drivers for Windows 95, NT,
Autocad, as well as a resource for HTML authoring software including
icons, backgrounds, and editors.
Beautify The Web - non profit
web design, free services available.
http://beautifytheweb.com
Java
Sourcebook - Includes free text from the book.
http://www.wiley.com/Compbooks/javasrbk/javahome.html
WhoWhere?
- searchable and browseable directory of personal home pages
http://homepages.whowhere.com
Interstate
Java Chat
http://soho.ios.com/~deeto/chat/
Top
level domain names have been registered with ALTERNIC.NET :
http://www.alternic.net/TLDS.html
HotWired
- Webmonkey
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/
HTML tutorials, analyses of the latest browsers and plug-ins, a
weekly demo of new Web techniques, and a technical advice column,
Geek Talk.
Marketing
Articles and Sites
"Direct" Marketing via E-Mail
http://www.netcreations.com/postdirect
An Internet e-mail marketing service called PostMaster
Direct.This new service sends brochures, press releases, and other
marketing material to a list of customers who have already requested
specific topical information.
Easier For A Camel To Go Through
A Needle's Eye - Advertising Exposures and Clickthroughs
http://netday.iworld.com/business/ad-mktg.shtml
Heavy
Traffic:Strategies for Boosting Web Site Accesses
http://netday.iworld.com/business/ad-mktg/am960730.html
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