Internet Digest for 30-Sep-96

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Internet News and Articles - - Best Sites of the Week
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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

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Gates Richest
Bill Gates is the richest person in America Forbes magazine. Forbes said the net worth of the 40-year-old billionaire has jumped to a staggering $18.5 billion, up almost $4 billion in just the last year.

Positive Press Spreads The "Good News"
http:/www.positivepress.com

"Good news every day." That is the idea behind Groom's Web site Positive Press. It was founded on the World Wide Web in July "to counteract the tendency of the mainstream media to focus on the negative," its mission statement says. Positive Press was selected by online service Yahoo as a pick of the week, Pacific Bell has made it an educational link and it has logged 200,000 hits to date.

Launching of Cable Modem Services
Cox Communications Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp. both will would roll out commercial services in at least one major market before year's end. 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. Cablevision will develop local content by crafting interactive versions of its News 12 regional news networks and "Neighborhood News" broadcasts. Cablevision also plans to "create new proprietary digital content" for its online offering.

The Internet Cafe
A new TV show airing 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. PC Connection will sell the En Technology device for "under $150" through its mail order business, which distributes 19 million catalogs annually.

Gigabit Ethernet To Hit Market
More than a dozen companies announced plans to build products based on Gigabit Ethernet technology at the Networld + Interop networking show in Atlanta. The high-speed networking technology is also gaining momentum with industry analysts. A recent report from Dataquest Inc., a San Jose market research firm, projected the Gigabit Ethernet market will near $3 billion by the year 2000.

Articles

NetPC - The Internet Appliance
http://www.techweb.com/tools/netpc/netpc.html

The Discontent of Adult Content
http://www.pcmag.com/dw/dw960925.htm

Companies Rush To Make Online Commerce Secure
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960927/tech/stories/security_1.html

IBM Takes New Step Toward Networked Home PCs
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960926/tech/stories/ibm_12.html

Best Sites of the Week

TuneUp.com - the first online computer service center
http://www.tuneup.com/

CareerCity - job listings and advice for resumes, cover letters
http://www.careercity.com

History of the Mystery
http://www.mysterynet.com/history/

UNOFFICIAL NHL - Covers all the teams and league
http://www.ultranet.ca/~hockey

The Law of Love
http://www.randomhouse.com/lawoflove/

The Annual Business On The Internet (BOTI) Awards
http://techweb.cmp.com/nc/boti/boti.html

Time Travel
http://www.retroactive.com/

Fix-It Guy
http://www.fixitguy.com/

The National Enquirer
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/10_1_96/cover.html

English Server at CMU
http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/
Archive with contemporary and classic works of fiction, drama, poetry and criticism.

HTML CGI and Programming Help

AdSorb32 HTML Edit
http://www.protags.com/
Built in html reference manual plus over 60 html tags, helpful wizards to aid in the design process, properties view for documents and a 16 bit version.

Web Review
http://webreview.com/

Creating Great Web Graphics
http://www.mccannas.com/book/overview.htm

Hilarious screen saver from our SOFTWARE
http://www.hotfiles.com/swbrowse/000/A/T/swlib-000ATQ.html

Easy Site - a Web presence for the internet challenged
http://www.pcmag.com/iu/sitecr/reviews/rv-easys.htm

Cool Kids Gif Animation Art Gallery For Young Aspiring Artists
http://www.kaleidoscapes.com/current.html

Beginner's Guide To Web Page Creation
http://members.aol.com/thomasreed/instruct/web/index.html

CGI Collection, The - CGI scripts provided by author, Robert Niles
http://www.selah.net/cgi.html

[lasher]s Domain - collection of backgrounds, animated gif's, and icons.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1292/

Vertex, The - a searchable browsable repository for VRML.
http://www.thevertex.com/

Yahoo! Live Guide - today's live chats and happenings on the Web.
http://liveguide.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/

Marketing Articles and Sites

Free Publicity for your Web Pages
http://www.sanctum.com.au/josh/

"Seven Steps to Establishing a Presence on the Web".
http://worldcommunity.com/steps.htm

How much will you pay for your site?
http://www.adage.com/bin/viewdataitem.cgi?opinions&opinions280.html

Internet Shopping Threatens Retailers
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960926/tech/stories/shopping_1.html

Online Shopping Network Rings Up Sales
http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest/273_092996_230007_23858.html

Microscope Magazine
http://www.pscentral.com/

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About the Author: Harold Carey is the president of IBIC Internet Services now (a Magellan "3-Star" site) . He is an International known Author, and Consultant to many Business such as Coca-Cola, McDonnell Information Systems, and States of Utah, and California. He has been interviewed on Radio and Television and has been a newspaper columnist for the Utah County Journal

He created, hosts and maintains over 300 WWW pages and Web sites the latest being the Home Business Center. http://www.homebusiness.com.
. His site at http://www.ibic.com get thousands of accesses a day and email comments and questions from all over the world.

His most popular sites are:
Netscape Enhancement Index - http://www.ibic.com/Program/NScapeHome.html
Programming Netscape 2.0 - http://www.ibic.com/NIndex/NSIHome.html
Top of the Web - http://www.ibic.com/IBIC/TopIntro.html

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