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Internet
News
Yamaha Midplug
MIDPlug is a self-contained MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital
Interface) file playback system for use on the worldwide web. It
features a powerful, GM (General MIDI) software- based music
synthesizer which makes it easy to enhance web pages with
high-quality music. Once "plugged in," websurfers can enjoy listening
to MIDI files embedded in a web page, even before the page is fully
loaded.
Intuit Launches Banking System Online
BankNOW is geared to customers who wish to conduct banking
transactions such as bill paying and fund transfers online, but do
not use the personal finance software that is part of Intuit's
Quicken banking package. So far, 14 U.S. financial institutions,
including First Chicago and CoreStates Financial are using BankNOW,
with an additional eight committed to use the product
American Greetings Online
Among the products are American Greetings On-Line, to cost from
$1.50 to $3.95 plus postage, American Greetings Personal CardShop for
Home and Office, a CD-ROM costing $9.95, and American Greetings
CreataCard Plus, a software program that features more than 3,000
pre-designed greeting cards, invitations, stationery and
announcements. CreataCard Plus is developed and marketed by American
Greetings software partner Micrografx and is expected to sell for
$29.95.
TCI's Cable Modem Service rollout
Local content "will range from everything from school lunch menus
here in Fremont to traffic reports, weather, news, local sports,
movies, everything you can imagine," Ravenel said. "That will be done
often in partnerships with local content providers, including through
the local newspapers and other firms that are involved in offering
information on the World Wide Web specifically about the Bay area."
$30 Billion in Net Transactions By 2005
A study from market researchers Killen & Associates. predicts
that by 2000, the number of electronic cash transactions on the
Internet will amount to 9 billion. By 2005, the study estimates $30
billion worth of financial transactions will be zipping across the
Internet.
Excite, to personalize news search
Excite added a feature on its Net search engine that allows
users to personalize news, stock quotes, and other information
services. With its new personalization feature, called Excite Live,
visitors to Excite's Web site will be able to select specific types
of information they wish to receive, including sports scores,
features, news, financial information, and weather forecasts.
IBM creates Internet Banking Alliance
IBM has forged an alliance with more than a dozen major banks to
provide consumer banking services using Internet technology. Banks
will be able to use IBM's worldwide private network as well as the
Internet to enable their customers to do their banking
electronically.
Articles
Businesses Flock To Intranets
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960905/tech/stories/intranets_1.html
Surfing
down under
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/index.html
Best
Sites of the Week
THE BIZ Entertainment Network.
http://pathfinder.com/bizmag/film/trailers.html
Mungo
Park - interactive expeditions and adventures around the world.
http://mungopark.msn.com/
News.Com
- Breaking stories to in-depth examinations of hot issues and
trends.
http://www.news.com/
"ultimate
Trekker event," Star Trek 30:
http://pathfinder.com/people/sp/trek/
Sports
Media Challenge,
http://www.sports.mediachallenge.com.
The
Dinosaur Society
http://www.dinosociety.org/
Phoenix Magazines
http://www.phoenixmags.com.au/
HTML
CGI and Programming Help
Includes a chart of all the Netscape named
colours
http://www.legend.org.uk/~rbaker/icons/colour-chart.html
Color Information RGBtoHex: an RGB to Hexidecimal Color
Converter
http://www.univox.com/rgb2hex.html
ISDN
Tutorial - concepts, history, protocols, references, and more.
http://www.ziplink.net/~ralphb/ISDN/
Amazing
Watching Eyeball - and other cool original EyeMagic GIF animations.
http://www.cfw.com/~cooks/index.html
Andy's
Art Attack - free original GIF89 animations, backgrounds,
http://www.andyart.com
JavaWorld's
JavaScript column by Gordon McComb
http://www.javaworld.com/common/jw.nuts.toc.html
Marketing
Articles and Sites
The top 10 advertisers; the top publishers
Revenues
Publisher.........Second quarter...First Half
1-Netscape.........$7.8 million.....$9.7 million
2-Infoseek.........$3.8 million.....$5.8 million
3-Yahoo............$3.7 million.....$5.7 million
4-Lycos............$2.6 million.....$4.1 million
5-Excite...........$2.4 million.....$3.6 million
6-C/Net............$2.1 million.....$3.2 million
7-ZD Net...........$2.1 million.....$3.2 million
8-Newspage.........$1.4 million.....$2.1 million
9-ESPN Sports Zone.$1.3 million.....$2.4 million
10-WebCrawler......$1.2 million.....$2.2 million
Spending
Advertisers....Second quarter.....First Half
1-Microsoft......$2.0 million......$2.9 million
2-Infoseek.......$1.4 million......$1.8 million
3-Excite.........$1.4 million......$1.9 million
4-McKinley Group.$1.4 million......$1.5 million
5-Netscape.......$1.3 million......$1.5 million
6-Yahoo..........$1.3 million......$1.4 million
7-Lycos..........$1.3 million......$1.3 million
8-AT&T...........$1.2 million......$1.8 million
9-c/net..........$1.0 million......$1.5 million
10-Nynex.........$1.0 million......$1.5 million
Rankings supplied by Jupiter Communications, based on tracking of
100 Web sites that collect an estimated 93 percent of ad spending. It
uses published rates to calculate the total spending.
Time
Vista
he online resort for small business from the marketing department of
TIME magazine.
http://pathfinder.com/timevista/
Web ad spending
http://www.adage.com/bin/viewdataitem.cgi?opinions&opinions273.html
Internet
Addresses On Ads Are Trendy, But Do They Work?
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960909/tech/stories/www_1.html
Web
Marketing: Savvy over Size
http://www.internetvoyager.com/net_stars_08-96.html
Who Wants To Shop, Bank And Surf The Internet On TV?
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960909/tech/stories/europe_1.html
Web-vertising
Revenues Up
Advertising on the Web tallied $71.7 million in the first six
months of 1996, 83% higher than the 1995 half-year total, according
to a report from Jupiter Communications. At the current pace, New
York-based Jupiter predicts that ad revenues will swell to $312
million for all of 1996. The Internet will likely emerge as a $5
billion annual industry within the next four years, the research
company predicted.
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