October
21, 1997
Are stock analysts too powerful? the Motley Fool The new stars of finance. BusinessWeek ZD Anchordesk on Microsoft vs. DOJ. The World's most admired companies. Fortune Cool Site of the Year awards page.
"How do I learn from my customers?" - Fast Company. More on customer service in Fast Company's Customer Service Issue.
What's next, requests for Cable subscriber lists? Lawyer Subpoenas Data from Newspaper's Website - CyberTimes It sucks to be Gil: Upside questions Gil Amelio's reputation as a turnaround artist. Can Ad agencies give technology a soul? Salon on Branding for Dummies
The interface
is an art form? The Atlantic
The Fray is one of those sites that I should like but could never find an article that I wanted to read, until I found this story about Derek's not-so dream job at HotWired. I guess I'm a year late in discovering the Fray. Now if I could just figure out how to read Word. More Apple bombshells at MacOS Rumors, and an explanation at AppleRecon
Pamela Anderson Lee, of unauthorized x-rated video fame, on Internet Privacy: Yahoo! Internet Life. Twelve rules of the New Economy:
Wired 5.09.
Friday July 4, 1997
NASA's Dose of Reality from Virtual Reality (Wired News) Let's
Make An Ad Deal (NewMedia)
I started a mailing list for the Filter page.
Don't really know what to use it for yet. In the meantime, subscribe
and then send in links or comments to the deanszine-list@coollist.com.
Ideally this will be a media and technology mailing list for Macintosh
users. Thanks to coollist
for starting a free mailing list service.
Saturday June 28, 1997
Despite Wired's death watch, Slate celebrated its one year anniversary on June 24th by releasing a Best (?) of Slate Collection. Has anyone else noticed that Microsoft's ASP pages load really, really slow. With the defeat of the CDA, the call is on for sites to rate themselves. The Netly News examines why the RSACi rating system is unworkable for most news sites.
Industry
Briefing: Internet Software (the Red Herring)
July 22 is the release date for OS 8 (News.com) Is Michael Jordan the only one making money on the web? (News.com) Can Apple
Woo the Fortune 500? (techWeb)
Lexis-Nexis to let public see files (News.com) Explorer
4.0 to rival Castanet (News.com)
Wired News gets a redesign. I found this Mac-only Netscape tag in HTML
Vocabulary:
Oracle, IBM, Sun take NC on road (News.com) Traffic buckles Microsoft site or Hackers jam Microsoft's site (News.com) 06/23/97 SAY
GOOD-BYE TO THE COMPUTER GEEK (BusinessWEEK)
Apple makes push deals (News.com) 'Web Anglais? Non, S'il Vous Plait' (Wired News)
Imagine the you organized a party just to hear the conversation of all the people that you have always wantd to meet; not just the movie stars, but the social activists, biologists, business leaders, and poets. That's Richard Saul Wurman's TED conference. 12 vendors commit to NetPC initiative (News.com)
Double Standard for Print and Web? (Editor & Publisher) Making the Zine (Washington Post) What happens when the media become our reality? It's a question cyberjournalists ought to ask themselves (theAtlantic) Anatomy
of a story (CNNplus)
Go
Tech, Young Man (Upside)
Content for sale: new media's weakest link (Wired News) Gobbling
up the Net (Salon)
Thursday May 29, 1997
Stating the Obvious on the "War of Words" in technology industry press releases. Greg's Hair tells his competitors, "Don't Buy a Mac." The economics of Webzines (Re-Wired) The economics of internet backbones (Upside)
Disinfectant and Newswatcher developer John Norstad's reaction to Rhapsody at Apple's WWDC 97, hint: he likes it. Found on Macintouch. When push comes to News (AJ Review) - A journalist's perspective on push news technology.
Newton Subsidiary Comments (Webintosh) Second Decade: Apple's May: WWDC down and licensing to go (MacWEEK) News: NeXT vets eye new OS (MacWEEK)
Apple Masters - famous Mac Users (Apple PR)
Microsoft plugs Windows 95 hole (News.com) Windows still vulnerable to a Mac Attack. `The Woz,' Back at Apple, Is Not Mincing Words (Computer News Daily) Could this be why TicketMaster went to war with Microsoft? The Home Shopping Network buys TicketMaster Media Central Digest rates ABCnews.com and its competitors. Jungle warfare (The Red Herring) Now that the IPO rush is over can Amazon.com compete with the big bookstore chains?
RFI's Response to Alsop's "Big Daddy" Twaddle (Apple Recon) Netscape's Marc Andreesson on Netscape vs. Microsoft (Techweb) NETSCAPE WALLOPS MICROSOFT WITH FIRST PUNCH IN "PUSH" WARS (News.com) Intel announces new 133-MHz MMX Pentium for notebook computers (News.com). See O'grady's Powerpage for Apple's newest powerbooks.
Another behind the scenes account of the Apple/Next Merger (The Red Herring) Oracle to take control of Navio (News.com). Navio was Netscape's competitor to WebTV. It looks like Ellison now has his Network PC company. Netscape expects slow growth: SEC filing (News.com) News: Steve Jobs chats up WWDC crowd (MacWEEK) If You Can't Beat 'Em, Do Windows (Techweb) Stone Design's Rhapsody HTML editor (Press Release)
WWDC: Developers laud Rhapsody direction (MacWEEK) WWDC: Tevanian, Yellow Box star at WWDC (MacWEEK) Apple moves toward the mainstream (5/11/1997) (SJ Mercury) Apple's cross-platform Net gamble (News.com) Apple sells developers on openness (News.com) Apple Operations VP Predicts Q4 Turnaround (Macworld)
Another useful media site is Julian Sher's Links for Investigative Journalism. Wired introduced NewBot, a news headline search tool. Unfortunately it's an ActiveX component and only works with Windoze. Web ads face technical, business hurdles (NetscapeWorld) Sunday May 11, 1997"Hey, it's May and it's still freakin' cold where I live. I wish it would warm up. I have no money and I publish this web site on my Quadra in the middle of the street. I have a long extension cord and I siphon power from parking stalls. So tell your friends to visit this magazine so I can have some validation about my life." - Gregory J. PaulhusHe is the Lizard King. Read about the cool side of Western Canadian culture. Or find out everthing there is to know about Lizards and/or Meadow Lake. Asocial Studies fans should check out greg's hair magazine. A cool Made With Mac magazine.
Netscape puts BeOS on the Fast Track (News.com) First Look: PowerBook 2400 (MacUser) A
profile of graphics wizard Kai Krause (The Atlantic Unbound)
Thursday, April 10
Human beings are still the most intelligent agents around (Salon) In the informational jungle, picking your guide is as important as keeping your head (Salon) Book Review updated 4/9/97 9:30pm
Hancock hypes QuickTime (news.com) Gates: PC a natural for living room (news.com) updated 4/8/97 10:00pm
JVM Showdown (Webintosh) - reviews of Macintosh Java Virtual Machines. How Will PowerMacs Fare In Retail? (TechWeb) MacInTouch: Developers wish Apple success, but faith slipping (MacWEEK) MS-WebTV Report (Apple Recon) Asks the question: Why are all the opponents of a $500 information appliance suddenly applauding Microsoft's purchase of WebTV? updated 4/8/97 11:15am
MS-WebTV: Windows everywhere (news.com) Big pay, low performance: The CEOswho got most for least in 1996 (msNBC) Apple's Java Rhapsody (Techweb) updated 4/3/97/ 2:00pm
Saudi prince adds Apple stake to portfolio (ZDnet) Apple's Prince Wants To Talk (NYTimes Syndicate) Sunday, March 30
Apple Gains as Oracle head ponders takeover bid (TechWeb) Wall Street: What is Larry Thinking? (TechWeb) Is Life in the Fast Lane Starting to Slow for Ellison's Oracle? (SF Gate) Analysts Expect $250M Q2 Loss for Apple (MacWorld) Is Memphis Windows 98? (News.com) Friday, March 28
Ellison mulls new bid for Apple (MacWEEK) Ellison group seeks feedback (MacWEEK) How to revive Apple forum page (SJ Mercury) Yahoo! - Apple stock rises as Oracle chairman mulls bid again (Reuters) Apple won't jump on Windows delay (PC WEEK) Thursday, March 27
Wednesday, March 26
Apple ahead (Sydney Morning Herald) News: OpenDoc partners put technology on the back burner (MacWEEK) MacInTouch: Used NeXTstation comes in handyfor Rhapsody tour (MacWEEK) IBM Eyes MacOS Laptop Market (techweb) Weak challenge to Win-ternet empire (3/23/1997) (SJ Mercury) ATM network company owns 'Internet' (3/19/1997) (SJ Mercury) Friday, March 21.
Id's John Carmack
on game development for current OS's - submitted by Josh
Flowers.
Thursday, March 20.
The
Struggle to Stay Wizzy (DaveNet)
Wednesday, March 19
Target:
Microsoft (Upside) - Upside examines Microsoft's vulnerabilities
Tuesday, March 18.
How
to Solve the Web's Search ProblemsÉ Forever (ZD Anchordesk)
Monday 17, March.
I added a discussion thread page, it's a
specialized guestbook so you don't have to register with HotWired anymore.
Saturday 15, March. 1997 A select list of News.Com and
MacWEEK layoff stories
Friday 14, March. 1997 Apple to Layoff Approx. 2500
Thursday 13, March. 1997 I did a whole bunch of behind the scenes clean up work on the site.
If you've bookmarked any links note this change: all the old news pages
are gone and replaced by this central archive
page.
Wednesday 12, March. 1997 uploaded 3.11.97 11:00pm Amelio
Sets Apple D-Day (TechWeb)
Tuesday 11, March. 1997
The link archive has been cleaned up
and reopened. I also added a page for readers links.
If you would like to have your page listed send
me the URL.
Monday 10, March. 1997 uploaded 3.9.97 11:15pm 03/17/97
APPLE: WHAT IS STEVE JOBS UP TO? (BusinessWeek)
3/5/97 Apple News
3/3/97 Mac News
2/27/97 9:15pm Cheerful guerrilla
- Guy Kawasaki (Red Herring)
2/26/97 10:45am People: Does Amelio
know what he's gotten himself into? (upside)
2/25/97 Mac News
2/24/97 10:50pm Newsmakers:
Ellen Hancock interview (news.com)
2/23/97 11:55pm Market
Analysis: Studies clash over strength of Mac sales in education (MacWEEK)
2/22/97 1:00pm Crack a Mac's server has been uncracked for CrackCounter
days. Crack comments.
2/18/97 10:00pm Blame Media,
not Apple, for Rhapsodic confusion (MacWEEK)
2/19/97 12:54am Yahoo!
- Apple executive VP Landi resigns
2/17/97 10:45pm Big
Mac magazines managing to survive (The Business Journal of San Jose)
2/16/97 9:45pm MacWEEK
Insider: RenderMan Rhapsody (MacWeek)
2/13/97 11:41pm Apple
gives a glimpse of its future products at Demo (InfoWorld)
2/12/97 11:00pm Canary in a Coalmine
(DaveNet)
2/11/97 10:50pm If
Intel's So Great, Why Have Analysts Suddenly Soured on It? (San Francisco
Chronicle)
2/10/97 11:30pm Heidi
Roizen Leaves Apple (DaveNet)
2/9/97 11:40pm Amelio:
Trying to do what's right (San Francisco Examiner)
Jan. 29, 1997
Netscape at crossroads - News.com Sour Year for Apple -- Sales Tumble 30 Percent in U.S. - SF Gate Amelio turnaround not turning - SF Gate Apple pitches for big blue clone - USA Today Jan. 27, 1997 Macs
in the media - Macsense
Jan. 24. 1997 Welcome to Apple Developer
World - Apple
Jan. 23, 1997 You heard it here first:
Apple's a buy - MSNBC
1/22/97 A
new Frontier Newspage tool - DaveNet
1/18/97 Apple
Eyes Java for Key OS Role - Macworld
1/16/97 Apple
loses 96 cents a share - TechWeb
1/14/97 Another
DaveNet Developers Survey
1/7/97 Chicago
Tribune forum - read the results of Guy Kawasaki's holy war.
1/6/97 Another
rant from the Chicago Tribune - apprently the author doesn't like Guy
Kawasaki.
1/5/97 This Fish's opinion - IMUG 1/4/97 Don
Crabb on the myths of the NeXT merger - Chicago Sun_Times. via The
MacResource Page
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