Internet Digest for 16-Sep-96

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The Internet Digest (a Magellan "3-Star" site), 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

Navigator Gold for Mac

Netscape officially shipped the final release of Navigator Gold 3.0. The editing tool lets users drag and drop text, graphics, URLs and Java applets into pages, although it restricts users to Cut and Paste when moving items within a page. Gold offers the same browsing capabilities as Navigator 3.0 in addition to its editing environment, and cost s$79 .

Web Pagers

Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion will have smart pagers that enable users to not only receive alphanumeric messages, but to initiate them as well. In addition, the devices let users manage and route text and other content from the World Wide Web to personal folders stored locally on the device. Smart pagers that offer the ability to send and receive text messages while providing access to the Web represent a compelling combination.

Novell has new Web publishing tools

Novell is building complementary Web publishing software meant to simplify the job of Web site administrators . The software is designed for companies seeking a technically-accessible process for creating and updating documents and hypertext links on Web sites. The project will work in concert with the GroupWise document management library. Changes made in document content or access privileges will automatically be reflected on the Web site, eliminating the need to update text and hypertext links. The tool will also sort email and allow users to view the information in new ways, such as pie charts displaying percentages and category summaries.

Internet hacker shuts down an on-line company

Taking advantage of a weakness in the construction of the Internet, has essentially shut down an on-line company by bombarding it with scores of bogus queries every second. For nearly a week, thousands of individual and corporate customers have been unable to log on to the worldwide computer network using Public Access Networks Corp., New York City's first Internet access provider., The hacker is sending scores of requests for information each second to computers at Panix. But the requests have fake return addresses, which confuse the Panix computers. At the rate the fake requests are coming, Panix is unable to handle legitimate interactions with other computers. Computers that provide information distributed through the Internet operate under the general assumption that they will be sending the information to a legitimate destination. If the request has a fake destination, the computer becomes tied up trying to find it. If one is not found, the computer moves on to the next task. Computers are set up to handle only a few bogus requests simultaneously, not dozens or hundreds per second.

Cox Launches Cable Modem Services

Cox Communications Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp. both said they would roll out commercial services in at least one major market before year's end. Canada's Rogers Cablesystems Ltd. also said it'll extend its cable modem business to several more systems before 1997. The service will cost $34.95 a month for high-speed Internet access and a still-developing package of national and local content. Subscribers will have to buy $300 modems separately. Installation will cost $100. The service's preferred Web browser will be Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

USWeb to blanket market By the year 2000

Web professionals will be pulling in about $20 billion a year, according to a recent study by Input, and USWeb plans to grab the biggest chunk of that change. "We aim to be a market leader in that segment," Toby Corey, executive vice president of marketing, said in an interview this afternoon. "We're continuously growing out the USWeb network. With $17 million in capital, USWeb set out in April to conquer the professional Web market by offering franchises to already-established businesses. The company has signed up 23 of the more than 1,800 companies that have applied to become franchises, Corey said, and it's adding five to seven more a month. It recently added USWeb affiliates in the heart of the Web revolution: Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Sunnyvale, California.

"The Internet Cafe"

The TV show will air on public television stations in six markets starting Oct. 3, will focus on cyberspace developments and also introduce an interactive technology that allows PCs to pick up software over the airwaves at close to 80 times the speed of a 28.8 modem. During telecasts of "The Internet Cafe," specific software cited in the TV program will be beamed to PCs equipped with the En Technology device. The company plans to distribute an undisclosed number of the devices to interested viewers. The show is scheduled to have a 13-week run in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas and Orlando. En Technology plans to distribute a number of free PC-TV devices to interested viewers.

Articles

Showing Off Future Internet Service
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960912/tech/stories/home_1.html

Fiber Optics Riding a Wave
http://headlines.yahoo.com/zdnews/stories/842478040.html

Internet Crowd Gets More Diverse
http://headlines.yahoo.com/zdnews/stories/840150522.html

Best Sites of the Week

Today Page
http://www.vossnet.co.uk/local/today/index.html
- a collection of pointers to pages and local data that changes daily. It is intended to be your one-stop daily update page, a bit like your morning paper.

Up To The Minute -CBS News at night.
http://uttm.com/

Paranoia Central - 50 Great Conspiracies of All Time.
http://www.conspire.com/

Fix-It Guy - How To use -- and abuse -- things
http://www.fixitguy.com/

Back to School - Internet guide made FOR college students
http://www.cybercampus.com/

HTML CGI and Programming Help

co.uk - Commercial Domain Naming in the UK
http://www.britain.eu.net/naming-co/index.html

NomiNation - internet naming registry for .uk.com names.
http://www.nomination.uk.com/

Infinite Fish
http://www.frii.com/~ifish/index.html
- seamless repeating textures and backgrounds, computer art gallery, Knob awards, ColorFusion graphics program, links and more.

Web Pages That Suck
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com

Web Design Tips and Tools
http://www.mimer.no/~torgra01/web/web.html

FormMail
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml
Perl CGI script which will take the input of any form, parse the results and e-mail them to the user specified in hidden fields. Can be used system-wide or single user.

210 Animated GIFs
http://globalpresence.com/gal_animation.htm

HTML Goodies Domain
http://www.htmlgoodies.com

Two New Monthly Web Developer Magazines To Debut

Targeting Web professionals, Informant Communications Group said on Friday it would launch two monthly magazines: Web Informant, which will target Web and Intranet site developers; and Web Publisher, aimed at Web site content creators, artists, designers and editors.

Set to hit stands this month with a cover price of $5.95, Web Informant will focus on technical articles relating to Java, HTML, VRML, the development of database applications and related topics.

Web Publisher is designed exclusively for readers looking to add unique features to their sites without learning to program. Regular features will include how-to articles and tips columns on Web page design, graphic design, typography, as well as site maintenance. Web Publisher's first issue will be published in December and will cost $4.95.

Marketing Articles and Sites

Advertisers Get More Savvy About Web
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960913/tech/stories/ads_1.html

Advertising Sites on Web Swell
http://headlines.yahoo.com/zdnews/stories/842394686.html

Dollars from Cyberspace
http://headlines.yahoo.com/zdnews/stories/842055719.html

Women Will Spend $368 Million Online in '96

Women shoppers will spend $368 million online in 1996, according to a new study from Jupiter Communications called "Women Online: Developing Content for and Emerging Market." Jupiter forecasts that women's spending online will increase to nearly $3.5 billion by the year 2000. Women accounted for an estimated 37% of online users in 1996, according to the study, which translates into about 13.8 million wired women. Jupiter's predicted there will be 43.3 million women online by the turn of the century.

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