Internet News
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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