From: Gleanings
To: The Multitude
Subject: Gleanings: Scrambling!
OPENING THANG
Sorry for the silence folks, been busy as a bee lately, and its going to get worse: I leave for acia 2000 tomorrow, and leave from there to go to Holland for a week. if I can get wired I’ll send y’all a hi…
Biggerhand seems to be contemplating his role in the world… it’s hard to be an art director!
http://www.biggerhand.com/journal/102000.html
http://www.biggerhand.com/journal/102300.html
Oh, And did I point to these? it’s nearly xmas, after all…
Creative Good’s new, free, Holiday 2000 E-Commerce Report:
http://www.creativegood.com/holiday2000
The 1999 e-commerce report:
http://www.creativegood.com/holiday99
ECOMMERCE MATTERS
E-Commerce Times: Etailers to lose billions over holiday season
Almost half of all consumers trying to purchase online this Christmas
will leave websites without placing an order, according to a new
report.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/001017-1.shtml
NEWS
I call this not-news
Newsbytes: Websites not influencing voters
Campaign websites for the upcoming US presidential election are not
attracting undecided voters, according to a recent Jupiter Media Metrix
survey.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/156834.html
Tomalak seems to be on an AOL kick this morning, but they’re all pretty interesting….
Industry Standard: AOL’s Rough Riders.
“In the beginning, you’re like, ‘Hey, we’ve looked into this space and you’re
the best. If you hook up with us, you can really kick ass,'” says ex-AOL
dealmaker Phillip Zakas, who delivered the pitch many times. “I could be
saying that to three different companies at once, but it would always work.”
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,19461,00.html
News.Com: AOL offers glimpse of music strategy.
Web portals struggling to harmonize their online music plans are closely
watching moves by America Online and Time Warner to create a music
subscription service, although the strategy may be more difficult for free
sites to pull off, analysts say.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3274320.html
Wired News: Online Music’s Strange Bedfellows.
But if their behavior is any indication, Nullsoft’s half-dozen star
programmers seem determined to keep their hacker spirit intact, scripting a
growing series of freely distributed software. And for now, in public at
least, AOL seems nonplussed by Nullsoft’s antics.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39616,00.html
Some goodies from NUA as well…
ZDNet: Websites still too big
While web pages have decreased in size over the past few years, the
average website is still much larger than it should be.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2640862,00.html
Yankee Group: Internet now a tool of the masses
With the online consumer population changing fast, the average Web user
is more likely to be a suburban housewife than a technology aficionado.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/press/D3582D369EFDE9F98525697A0044E01E?OpenDocument
US Department of Commerce: US digital divide narrows
More Americans are using computers and the Internet than ever before,
according to a new report by the US Department of Commerce.
Half of US households now have a computer, while 41.5 percent have
Internet access, up 15 percent from last year. The report puts the US
online population at 116.5 million.
http://osecnt13.osec.doc.gov/public.nsf/docs/fttn-tdi-executive-summary
APROPOS OF NOTHING
FAQ: PlayStation 2
A nerd’s-eye-view of the best thing ever
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0010/faq_ps2/
Smile. Relax. Doodle.
Notes from the presidential debate
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0010/notes/