Messaging Promotes Portals
8/1/99, Polly Sprenger, NewMedia. Portal has become the magic word of the Web, and the topic-specific variety is now the darling of Wall Street. But the challenge portal companies face - attracting Web users and keeping them from straying too far - would seem to be no simple feat.
newmedia.com/newmedia/99/08/outsource/Messaging.html

Revisiting Make or Buy
8/27/99, Dana Blankenhorn, ClickZ. Back in 1996, most community sites were unaware they needed things like free web pages, email, chat, and forums to be successful.
www.searchz.com/Articles/0827994.shtml

Grow Your Business By Creating Community
7/15/99, Paul Siegel, ClickZ. How can you form a strategy to grow your business when the business environment is being transformed under your eyes?
www.searchz.com/Articles/0715992.shtml

Community Redevelopment
7/12/99, Mark Gimein, The Industry Standard. Chat rooms remain a staple of AOL and the Web. But Third Voice and Hypernix think there are better ways to communicate online.
www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,5428,00.html

Goofy Business Plan or the Next eBay?
6/28/99, Whit Andrews, Internet World. Club Photo is one of those bizarre Internet phenomena that one minute looks kind of funky, and the next minute looks pretty slick. It's like eBay that way, which of course looked fairly goofy at first, but then suddenly looked like it was worth several billion dollars and might just rip a gaping hole in the fabric of business as we know it.
www.internetworld.com/print/1999/06/28/ecomm/19990628-goofy.html

Community Chest
5/28/99, Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila, ClickZ. As an engine for sweeping social and economic change, the Internet has brought us cybersex, cyberstalkers, e-commerce, and a renewable crop of paper billionaires.
www.searchz.com/Articles/0528993.shtml

Where's Your Community
5/19/99, Jim Daniels, Internet Day. "Build a community and you're building a business." That's the new and proven business model in cyberspace.
www.internetday.com/archives/051999.html

Trusty Communities
1/1/99, Paul May, Verista: Ecommerce's Monthly Talking Point. Mass market ecommerce has highlighted afresh the most stubborn barrier to free human interaction: the issue of trust.
www.verista.co.uk/jan99_point.html