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Internet
News
Hollywood studio's go to Intranets
A number of the major studio's have taken steps to build Intranet
systems. Studio's put information like phone directories, most
corporations include confidential data, such as sales figures, on
their inhouse sites. Given that, security is a concern to the
studios, which also make such information available to certain
employees on the Intranet.
UUNet to use the Windows NT 4.0
UUNet's Windows Web hosting is based on Microsoft's
newly-released NT Server. Other features include the FrontPage 1.1
Web authoring and management tool; the latest version of the tool for
creating Web sites; and Microsoft Index Server, a search engine.
Prices of dedicated NT Web hosting include a start-up fee of $5,000
and a monthly charge of $3,000. A shared service, at a lower price,
will be available in early October.
Simon & Schuster, Lycos Publish Web Site Directory
Lycos Press has published Most Popular Web Sites, the first in a
series of planned Internet-related books. The nationally distributed
book comes with a CD-ROM including hyperlinks to 200,000 Web site
reviews and features Lycos' 1,000 most popular destinations. The book
is being published by Que, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing, a unit
of Viacom-owned Simon & Schuster.
New York Times on PointCast
PointCast Inc. and New York Times are developing a "channel" for
the newspaper to broadcast news and information this fall. The Times'
PointCast network channel will draw both from the paper's print and
electronic content. The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times already
provide content to PointCast, as do several Time Warner magazines
including Time and People.
SportsLine USA - All-Sports Radio Station
http://www.sportsline.com
A Web site devoted to the world of sports. SportsLine offers
audio programming eight hours a day, seven days a week. SportsLine
kicked off its audio component with a Penn State college football
game broadcast.
WebTV Sets
WebTV Networks will charge about $20 monthly for Internet access
using televisions and low-priced set-top boxes being manufactured by
Sony and Philips Electronics Sony is advancing the launch date to
September for its WebTV Internet Terminal because of strong demand
from U.S. electronics retailers. The device has a list price of
$350.
Mitsubishi to Offer Internet TV
Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics America said today it plans to
bring a television with Internet capabilities to market as early as
next summer. Mitsubishi did not release price estimates, but said the
initial debut will focus on televisions with large screens measuring
up to 40 inches. It would have access to the World Wide Web and other
Internet services, a single remote, strong graphic and audio
features.
AT&T with New Web Service
AT&T is launching a trial program allowing surfers of the
World Wide Web to request nearly instantaneous telephone calls from
businesses that advertise on the Internet. The new technology, called
Instant Answers, will allow individuals to click on an icon on a
company's homepage to request a call from a sales representative or
service agent.
Articles
Goodbye IE 3.0, hello 4.0
http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,2381,00.html
Getting the Web on the map
http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,2375,00.html
Web Site Compares Ld Phone Pricing
http://nytsyn.com/live/Features1/211_072996_124039_16491.html
Bray: MS Browser Blows Netscape Away
http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest_columns/246_090296_110011_25321.html
Best
Sites of the Week
New York Online Access to Health
http://www.noah.cuny.edu/
New York Online Access to Health is a guide to the latest health
information and resources.
Nobel Archive
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/
Winners of the Nobel Prize are showcased in a new interactive
archive. The site also promises to carry up-to-the-minute information
on the new prizes as they are announced in early October.
School Aid Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science
Students
http://www.finaid.org/
Success Course - tips on being a winning entrepreneur
http://www.success.org/
MACARENA -The hottest new
audience participation dance.
http://www.ambassdj.com/page25.html
Dave's Wonderful
World of Yo-Yos.
http://www.yahoo.com/picks/?http://www.nmia.com/~whistler/yo-yos.html
HTML
CGI and Programming Help
Common Gateway Interface Specification - from
NCSA.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
Netscape Tricks and Easter Eggs - tips, tricks and hidden
features
http://www.secureforms.com/mozilla/
Common Gateway Interface Specification - from NCSA.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
Poke! - search assistant that uses javascript and frames.
http://www.webprowler.com/
Hobbes' Internet Timeline -
starting in 1950
http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html
Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Web.
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People/Berners-Lee/
Homepage Designs - free background and titlebar designs.
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/1679/image.html
Just
Backgrounds - over 100 backgrounds, and growing daily.
http://www.psnw.com/~wattsnet/backgrounds.html
HOME -
beautiful and genious webpages, graphics and texts.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/R_Segert/
Web Page Design for Designers
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/pixelp/wpdesign/wpdintro.htm
DMS Guide to Web Color: Palettes & Gamma - guide to Web color
palette
http://www.oit.itd.umich.edu/projects/DMS/answers/colorguide/
WebColor Picker - an interactive webcolor picker for HTML
development
http://www.teleport.com/~knack/next/color/index.html
Ace of Space Kids Place - original background designs for childrens'
home pages.
http://users.uniserve.com/~squinn/kids.htm
Bordertown - original border backgrounds for your pages.
http://users.uniserve.com/~squinn/borders.htm
LiveImage - very easy to use image mapping program.
http://www.mediatec.com
Marketing
Articles and Sites
Top Ad Buyer in U.S. Turns To Web
http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest_columns/243_083096_130125_551.html
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