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Today's scriptingNews Outline
Author: Dave Winer Posted: 7/27/1999; 5:33:29 AM Topic: Today's scriptingNews Outline Msg #: 8788 Prev/Next: 8787 / 8789
New Channel: Technocrat.Net.InfoWorld: 600Mhz Pentiums Due Next Week. "Consumers may not know what a chip set is but performance is something they understand."
News.com: Priceline.Com Takes Car Bids. "The service, which debuts tomorrow in the Tampa, Florida, market, allows customers to bid for a new car on Priceline.com's Web site. The anonymous request is forwarded to all of AutoNation's franchises in the area, and the first dealership to accept the offer makes the sale."
Hey I just started a new weblog at pitas.com. Thanks to Jorn Barger at Robot Wisdom for this link. The weblog thing is really catching on!
News.Com: Software firms cash in on portal trend.
InfoWorld: RedHat's e-Commerce Server. $149.99.
WebMonkey: Sending Search-Engine Traffic to Your Site. "It's become obvious to me — and to the search engineers I talked to while writing this article — that most sites could get their pages much better placement on search engines without using deception."
Wired: Universal -- Don't Link to Us. "A Web site that aggregates links to movie trailers online has come under fire from a major movie studio that says the links infringe on its copyrights."
Steve Bogart: Stupid Movie Studio.
Movie-List: "The net's most updated movie trailer site."
PC World: Portals Ditch the Browser. "Wireless networks that connect people directly to hulking back-end servers could ultimately bypass the Internet and rob portals of both traffic and eyeballs, Bockman says."
Scott Rosenberg: Should Journalists and IPOs Mix? "On one side, [newspaper companies] are being threatened by a new medium that has already begun to seize their classified ad revenues and their role of providing raw information like stock quotes, sports scores and weather; on the other side, their talent pool is being drained by a new industry that invites greater risk from its workers and promises greater potential rewards."
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