Internet News

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“Online Newshour” Debuts on the Web

http://www.pbs.org
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions have announced the “Online NewsHour” on the Internet’s World Wide Web.

IDC’s 1996 Predictions for the IT Industry

Forecasts:
€IT industry revenues will jump from $500 billion to more than $2.5 trillion
€Corporate spending on IT will rise from 2.0-2.5% of revenues to more than 5%
€Eighty percent of PC shipments will be to the home market
€The number of “wired” (i.e., online) users will rise to more than one billion
€Online commerce volume will hit $150 billion by 2000, more than $1 trillion by 2010

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Harlequin Introduces WebMaker 2.1

Harlequin of Boston introduced its newest version of WebMaker, a multi-platform software system that converts documents written in FrameMaker 5.0 and 4.0 into HTML. The $99 software includes Internet-based technical support and comprehensive documentation available via Harlequin’s World Wide Web site. WebMaker is available via Harlequin’s WWW site at http://www.harlequin.com/webmaker/.

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Sony Launches Advanced VRML Editor/Browser

Sony Pictures Imageworks of Culver City, Calif. yesterday unveiled a beta version of CybePassage Software, which it claims to be the most advanced version of VRML, (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) currently available for users of the Internet and World Wide Web.
The CyberPassage beta software can be accessed free from the Sony Pictures Entertainment home page at http://sonypic.com/vs.

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First Interactive Super Bowl

Internet service provider UUNET Technologies of Fairfax, VA, has announced that it has been selected by NFL Enterprises, NBC Sports, and Microsoft as the “Supplier of Internet Connectivity for superbowl.com” (http:// superbowl.com), the official Web site of Super Bowl XXX, (January 28, 1996, Tempe, Arizona).

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AOL Launches Stand-alone Internet Service

As reported last week, America Online launched their stand-alone Global Network Navigator (GNN) Internet based service on Monday, 10/30.
America Online was very aggressive with the pricing of the GNN service. According to America Online, the service will be available in over 600 cities, in the U.S. making it, according to the press release, “the first truly national full-featured Internet service for consumers.” Unlike the AOL service, where the typical trial offer waives the $9.95 monthly fee and allows use of up to 10 hours before the charges kick in, the GNN service offers FREE UNLIMITED USAGE for the first month. After that, pricing is $14.95/mo. for 20 hours of service with additional hours at $1.95. Short of flat fee based services, this is one of the most aggressively priced plans available.

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Internet survey results

This week the granddaddy of numbers in the television world, Nielsen Media Research, released summary survey results for a study done for CommerceNet. Executive Highlights of the study are available at http://www.commerce.net/. But, if you don’t have the time, here are some interesting tidbits lifted directly from the Web page: 11% (24 million) of total persons aged 16 and above in the US and Canada have used the Internet in the past three months.
Approximately 8% (18 million) of total persons aged 16 and above in the US and Canada have used the WWW in the past three months.
Internet users average 5 hours and 28 minutes per week on the Internet.
Total Internet usage in the US and Canada is equivalent to the total playback of rented video tapes
Males represent 66% of Internet users and account for 77% of Internet usage.
On average, WWW users are upscale (25% have income over $80K), professional (50% are professional or managerial), and educated (64% have at least college degrees).
Approximately 14% (2.5 million) of WWW users have purchased products or services over the Internet.

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Articles

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HOW CHEAP CAN COMPUTERS GET?

TIME Magazine January 22, 1996 Volume 147, No. 4
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY by JOSHUA COOPER RAMOS
http://pathfinder.com/@@6tSFMYEPVQEAQIWC/time/magazine/domestic/1996 /960122 /computers.html

Toward a Cleaner, Tidier Net

http://pathfinder.com/pathfinder/pulse/news/techrev/features/96jan /tidy.html

Finding One’s Own in Cyberspace

http://pathfinder.com/pathfinder/pulse/news/techrev/features/96jan /finding.html

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Best Sites of the Week

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The Internal Revenue Service

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/cover.html
IRS lightens up with tax site it is trying an image makeover with its new web site. The taxpage is campy and fun, with easy to understand language. It offers tax forms, publications for downloading and answers to hundreds of questions about business or personal taxes.

PC Magazine’s Top 100 Web Sites

http://www.zdnet.com/~pcmag/special/web100/
PC Magazine’s regularly updated guide to the best of the Web.

Darrell’s Talking Web Site

http://www.csug.rochester.edu/users/ugrads/anderson/sayit.html
The net is a diverse place. Fill out the form below and with a click of a button your message will be spoken from my machine. Whether or not anyone is listening is another question…

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HTML Help

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Sports Network’s Java Applets

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/java.html

Demoschool

http://www.mds.mdh.se/~dat94avi/demoschool.html-
A tutorial on x86 assembler programming, especially as relates to graphical demos.

Cyberdog

http://cyberdog.apple.com/
Internet browser from Apple Computer!

Internet Spec List

http://www.graphcomp.com/info/specs/-
contains links and documents for various protocols, specifications, and standards used on the Internet.

MapMurl Little Language

http://found.cs.nyu.edu/beads/mapmurl/
Language for producing imagemap for points on projected
coordinate systems. currently defined to work with the Census Bureau’s TIGER Map Server.

Web Media Publisher

http://www.wbmedia.com/software.html
Full featured 32 bit HTML editor with complete JAVA and
Shockwave support.

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Marketing Articles and Sites

NET IS A Handy Market Tool, But Don’T Ignore Dangers

By Yardena Arar And Dawn Yoshitake c.1996 Los Angeles Daily News
http://nytsyn.com/live/Features1/020_012096_194851_11985.html

Publish Your Own Web Pages, But Have Mercy on Us Browsers

by Walt Mossberg - WSJ
http://ptech.wsj.com/html3/newest.html

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Navigator 2.0 is finally ready to roll

http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/index.html
The seemingly endless beta cycle for Netscape Communications Corp.’s Navigator 2.0 will come to a close Monday with the final, commercial release of the market-leading Web browser.

Industry shipments rose..

..59.7 million units from 47.9 million in 1994. Growth in the U.S. Market lagged the global market, rising 21 percent to 22.5 million units from 18.6 million in 1994. Compaq retained its No. 1 position as the company’s PC shipments rose 25 percent from 1994 to 5.99 million units, or 10 percent of the worldwide market. IBM shipped 4.78 million units, 21 percent more than in 1994. Its market share fell to 8 percent year from 8.2 percent in 1994. Apple’s shipments rose 18 percent growth to 4.66 million units, or 7.8 percent of the market. In 1994, Apple shipped 3.96 million units, or 8.3 percent of the total market.

Small Pennsylvania Town Discovers

That Cable Modems Alter On-Line Life
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/dunn/0130cable.html
Like the cable box on top of a television, cable modems are always connected. Being permanently on line, with no need to dial up a service provider, means that at any given moment the Internet is as immediately accessible as your computer’s hard drive or CD-ROM. “To me, on line and off line just don’t exist anymore,”

How exactly do I find an e-mail address?

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/freed/0126freed.html #finger

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Articles

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The Digital Wallet In Your Future - Bill Gates

http://nytsyn.com/live/Gates/030_013096_105336_22974.html

Is The Internet Killing Apple?

http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest_columns/031_013196_184405_29428.html

Ready For Network’ P.C.s Set To Take Off

http://nytsyn.com/live/News3/032_020196_153139_28515.html

Netscape Gold adds WYSIWYG editing - by Tinoo Singh

http://www.cnet.com/Content/Reviews/Hands/012996/gold.html

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Intel cuts Pentium chip prices

http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,572,00.html
Intel announced that it is lowering the prices of its Pentium and Pentium Pro chips. The price cut will lower the price of a $3,000 PC to $1,200, according to officials. (February 1, 1996, 12 p.m. PT)

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Best Sites of the Week

Snapple

http://www.snapple.com/
Information on Snapple products, the people who write the letters featuredin their popular commercials, and interesting uses for Snapple products (such as basting chicken!?!).

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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

http://www.KY.net/valentine/

VALENTINE’S FOREVER

http://scarlet.invision.net/cupid/

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HTML Help

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GIF89a-based Animation for Netscape 2.0

http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifanim.htm

Instant animation:-selling the sizzle

http://www.totallyhip.com/tools/2b_tools.html

Top Designers Compare Philosophies

http://pubs.iworld.com/ww-online/96Feb/undercon/design_philosophies.html

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Marketing Articles and Sites

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Is There Anybody Out There?, by Peter Krasilovsky

http://www.marketingtools.com/mt_current/mt415.htm

Looking Good

http://pubs.iworld.com/ww-online/96Feb/enterprise/intranet_design.html
Dazzling design is just as important for the intranet.

Digital Media Masters

http://www.adage.com/IMM/Media/1.html
Advertising Age’s Cybermarketing Leaders

On The Internet, Content Is King - By Bill Gates

http://nytsyn.com/live/Gates/008_010896_115257_13464.html

Sports sponsorships are finding Web tie-ins - Ad Age

http://www.adage.com/bin/viewdataitem.cgi?opinions&opinions145.html

Marketers link up to tune of $54.7 mil

http://www.adage.com/bin/viewdataitem.cgi?opinions&opinions140.html
Jupiter study finds $11.8 mil in commercial, $42.9 mil Web support for ‘95

The Internet Gold Rush: Where’S The Gold?

http://nytsyn.com/live/Gates/341_120795_161620_27009.html

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Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0 Beta 1

Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0 is currently only available for Windows 95 or NT.
ftp://ftp2.netscape.com/Gold/g32e20b1.exe!3.5.5.4″
Also ftp 3-9

Skepticism surrounds Apple, Sun report

Acquiring Apple would give Sun a viable consumer-level desktop offering, but getting the two companies in sync could take more work than Sun is prepared for, if the deal comes to fruition.

Compaq 1995 Sales Reach Record $14 Billion

HOUSTON, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1996 JAN 25 (NB) — Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ) has reported record 1995 sales of $14.8 billion, a 36 percent increase over the previous year.

AST Still Bleeding Red

PC WEEK, 1996 JAN 25 — By Charles Cooper. AST Research Inc. lost $128.6 million during its second fiscal quarter as the company suffered a sharp decline in revenues.

Bet on Cable, Not ISDN

Cable modem will wipe out ISDN, ensuring the baby Bells will be “outclassed as quickly as cable operators can lay the line,” said Emily Green, an analyst at Forrester Research, Cambridge, Mass.

Work-At-Homes Offer Untapped Market

Only about 30 percent of “work-at-homes” surveyed by AT&T;Home Business
Resources subscribe to one of the online services, and only 4 percent surf the Internet. About 25 million people operate home-based businesses according to the study that aimed to identify the lifestyle patterns of people who work at home and assess the physical amenities supporting the U.S. market.

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Articles

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Big Four struggle for online survival

http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,521,00.html

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Best Sites of the Week

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Creative Workshop

http://homepage.interaccess.com/~markarts/

NASA Shuttle Web

http://shuttle.nasa.gov/
Official information from NASA regarding the Space Shuttle program. View photos, video clips, and hear audio files from past and present Space Shuttle Missions.

FantasyWorlds

http://www.realvirtual.com/fantasyworlds.html
Travel to the 15th Realm by making use of one’simagination, creativity, and wit. Create your own online characterschoosing from multiple physical and behavioral variables.

Highway 17

http://www.got.net/~egallant/the_road.html
Page Of Shame (Jerque du Jour) - Dedicated to those drivers
who hate getting behind slow pokes on the nation’s roads.

Family Planet

http://family.starwave.com
News and advice on parenting, including q &;a with child health &;development experts, movie reviews, guides to childrens products, fun stuff for kids, and local activities calendars.

MicroMovie MiniMultiplex

http://www.teleport.com/~cooler/MMMM/MMMM.html
Animated pages! a festival of Nanimation

Travel Channel Online

http://www.travelchannel.com/
Get the inside scoop for serious travelers

NBA.com

http://www.nba.com/
Online basketball jam session with lots of depth.

The BIZ

http://www.bizmag.com/
Entertainment ‘zine sizzling with inside info.

Game Gallery Online

http://www.gamegallery.com/
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AT&T’s;Online Service to Join Internet

NEW YORK (Reuter) - AT&T;Corp. said Thursday that its embryonic online service AT&T;Interchange Online Network would become part of the Internet’s World Wide Web within a year instead of being a proprietary system.

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Acorn to Design Low-Cost Internet Machines

LONDON (Reuter) - Acorn Computer Group, a small British high performance computer specialist, said Wednesday it had been chosen by U.S. software giant Oracle to help create a design for cheap Internet computers.
The agreement is part of Oracle’s aim to develop a computer that can make full use of the Internet global computer network but still be substantially cheaper than the multimedia PCs currently needed to fully exploit it.
Acorn and Oracle refused to comment on the marketing details of the planned computer, but industry sources estimated that the two could offer the machine for as little as $500.

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Internet Interactive Political Cartoon Goes Twice-Weekly

Architext Software, Inc., has announced it has doubled the frequency of the Internet’s first interactive political and social cartoon series, available on its Excite Web home page at http://www.excite.com. New commentaries, drawn by veteran cartoonist Bill Mitchell, will appear twice each week beginning this week.

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AOL Launches Stand-alone Internet ServiceAmerica Online was very aggressive with the pricing of the GNN service. According to America Online, the service will be available in over 600 cities, in the U.S. making it, according to the press release, “the first truly national full-featured Internet service for consumers.”
Unlike the AOL service, where the typical trial offer waives the $9.95 monthly fee and allows use of up to 10 hours before the charges kick in, the GNN service offers FREE UNLIMITED USAGE for the first month. After that, pricing is $14.95/mo. for 20 hours of service with additional hours at $1.95. Short of flat-fee based services, this is one of the most aggressively priced plans available.

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IBM Announces Internet Strategy

IBM made several announcements with regard to its Internet Strategy, but the centerpiece of the press announcements is a service called Infomarket. Before going further, I should say that while I don’t work directly on the infomarket project, the GM of my group (my boss’ boss) does have responsibility for infomarket. That being said: I THINK infomarket is AN INCREDIBLY AWESOME CONCEPT!
The central concept behind infomarket is simple — it’s copyright protection for publishers. There are other facets to infomarket, notably the vision of a search tool for a vast set of databases and the ability to serve as a clearing house to sell
content for publishers.

HTML Help Sites

The WEB-Doctor!

http://www.homeless.com/homepages/m9343@abc.se.html
Learn how to make your own HOMEPAGE! (This page is originally
made for my math-and-science-teacher: WASSBERG “Sharp Mountain”)! Well.. lets get to the neat stuff

Daniel’s Icon Archive

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/~mccoy/Icons/index.html
Icons for Building Web Pages

Using Lucid Emacs to Create HTML Documents

http://www-camis.stanford.edu/how_to/lemacs_instr/lemacs.html
This document describes how to get started with Lucid Emacs in the Knowledge Systems Lab at Stanford University. It also provides a few screen and menu snapshots to give you an idea why using lemacs is the choice of many HTML coders.

Doctor HTML

http://imagiware.com/RxHTML.cgi
A Web page examination tool which performs spelling checks, image analysis, hyperlink verification and syntax tests. The Doctor is In!

Weblint v1.012

http://www.unipress.com/weblint/
Weblint is a perl script created by Neil Bowers that checks HTML code. With WWWeblint, the UniPress interface to Weblint, you can paste/type in HTML code and have it checked. Or you can simply supply a URL of a page
anywhere on the World-Wide Web to be checked.

Hypertext Internet Handbook

http://world.std.com/~ldjackso/hthb5.htm
80+ commonly-used Internet terms, glossary of computer oriented abbreviations and acronyms, an Internet and Unix Dictionary.) Web site design and implementation.

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Marketing Sites

Predictions ‘96

http://www.idcresearch.com/96pred.htm
A Pivotal Year As the Industry Shifts Gears

IDC Weekly Market Fact

http://www.idcresearch.com/danugget.htm
With the emergence of the multimedia PC fueling demand for high-quality audio, the audio board market has grown
dramatically over the last year.

“What Sells on the Internet?”

http://arganet.tenagra.com:80/tenagra/sells.html
Types of goods most likely to sell well on the Internet.

Consumer Trends for Business Leaders

http://www.marketingtools.com/ad_current/default.htm
(American Demographics)

Building Site Traffic

http://www.mindspring.com/~dmonline/DEC95/CoverStory/CoverStory.html
” Who’s Marketing Online, December 1995

Hermes

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sgupta/hermes/
A research project on the commercial uses of the World Wide Web, with links to various completed and on-going demographic surveys

How to Publicize a new Web Site Over the Internet

http://www.samizdat.com/public.html
When you start a Web site, one of your first steps should be to let the right people know that you exist.

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This weeks top stories:

Pacific Bell this week has announced plans to create an expanded gateway to the Internet that will reportedly increase the capacity of the FASTRAK Internet Network Access Point (NAP) by 40 times at speeds that range from 45 to 155 million.

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Mecklermedia’s fall Internet World ‘95 posts record attendance; Fall ‘96 estimated at 200% larger–With over 32,000 attendees visiting 230 exhibitors at a packed Boston World Trade Center, Fall Internet World ‘95 completed its three-day run as the world’s largest conference and exhibition devoted to the Internet and World-Wide Web.According to Alan M. Meckler, chairman and chief executive officer of Mecklermedia Corporation, the Fall Internet World ‘95 attendance was nearly triple the number of people at last year’s fall show in Washington D.C.

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NBC and Microsoft Corp. are likely to announce details Thursday of a joint venture to launch an all-news cable channel, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.The sources did not indicate the size of each company’s investment, but published reports earlier this week estimated the cost at about $100 million.HTML Help Sites

This is a list of the Top sites for Creating Web Pages.

Beginning HTML

1. The official HTML specification
2. Web 66: Cookbook - Mac
3. The HTML Quick Reference Guide
4. HTML Validation Service
5. A Beginner’s Guide to URLs
6. HTML Writer Home Page
7. Reference for HTML and the Web
8. How to write HTML
9. HTML Documentation Table of Contents
10. A Primer on writing HTMLs
    

Advanced HTML

1. WWW &;HTML Developer’s JumpStation
2. Netscape HTML Extensions
3. HyperText Markup Language Specification Version 3.0
4. UW WWW Developer’s Page
5. HTML Code Table
6. Webcom’s HTML Guide
7. Searching the HTML 2.0 Specification
8. Composing Good HTML
9. HyperText Markup Language Specification 3.0
10. HTML Writers Guild

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Marketing Sites

Internet Marketing

Top Marketing Links

• NBR - Marketing
• Welcome to Direct Marketing World
• Global Online Marketing
• Guerrilla Marketing Online Strategies
• Who’s Marketing Online
• The Online Ad Agency: Articles
• Guerrilla Marketing Online Strategies
• Marketing and Media Planning Resource Center
• Netrepreneur News: Marketing
• Successful Marketing Strategists -the Book
• wolfBayne Presentations
• Small Business &;Effective Web Marketing
• Internet Marketing
• CyberWave Media Home Page
• Online Marketing Update
• The Online Marketing Letter
• The Open Text Index

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