The Essence of Internet Success
12/20/99, Dean Mapa, Internet Day. Someone once said that too many people quit a step from achieving success. This is true for all ventures, whether it's a brick-and-mortar business or Web marketing, a sports competition or daily exercise. A failure, a momentary lapse of concentration, a disappointment, another failure, just about anything can distract us and compel us to give up.
www.internetday.com/archives/122099.html

Tales Of Web Survival
11/18/99, RICHARD KARPINSKI, InternetWeek. There is life after a Web site meltdown; that is if you aggressively address the damage not only to your IT infrastructure, but to your customer relationships as well.
www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991118S0014

Ooooh, That URL Is Ugly!
10/13/99, Katie Dean, Wired. Get used to it. Web sites look more polished and sophisticated with every surf of the Web. Obviously, flashy design is not always reflected in the cumbersome, gobbledy-gook URLs where the sites reside.
www.wired.com/news/print/1,1294,31721,00.html

Online success stories divulge their secrets
10/8/99, Paul Festa, CNET News.com. Aspiring Internet entrepreneurs got an earful today as a panel of start-up executives shared some tips of their trade.
news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-811593.html

Nothin' But Net: Altitude Adjustment
10/5/99, Aaron Goldberg, Upside Today. The Internet age has been a significant part of probably the largest single stretch of wealth creation in world history. And baby, we've been riding a major gravy train. Too bad the days of wine, roses, easy money and market caps of profitless companies exceeding the gross domestic product of Denmark are behind us.
www.upside.com/texis/mvm/print-it?id=37efb7740&t=/texis/mvm/opinion/story

`Web Logs' Evolve From Personal Home Pages
10/6/99, FRANCES KATZ, Cox News. Web logs are the second generation of the personal home pages posted by ordinary people who surf the Web. Unlike the first wave of home pages, Web logs are filled with personal commentary and observations, updated on a regular basis.
199.97.97.16/contWriter/cnd7/1999/10/05/cndin/7655-1081-pat_nytimes.html

So how old is the Net, and did Sputnik invent it?
10/5/99, Graham Lea, The Register. Some people have decided that the Internet is 30 years old and are celebrating its trigesimus. Well, save the candles, because there are plenty of other anniversaries that are in many ways quite as important.
www.theregister.co.uk/991005-000002.html

Publishers Mine the Internet
10/12/99, Arthur M. Louis, Chronicle Staff Writer. If a book's title says "online," it's not necessarily on target.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/12/BU98483.DTL&type=printable

The world wide women's Web
10/10/99, REBECCA EISENBERG, SF Gate. It gives me great pleasure to mention here three upcoming events in the world of women online. The first involves a historic event in the world of venture capital. On Jan. 27, Springboard 2000, the first-ever venture capital forum to showcase women entrepreneurs, will take place.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/examiner/archive/1999/10/10/BUSINESS13247.dtl&type=printable

Why Microsoft doesn't rule the Net
10/1/99, Mark Gimein, Salon. Three years ago, a senior executive involved in Microsoft's Internet operations was offered a job by America Online. He said no, and smiled to himself. "We all were so clueless," he says now, "I remember thinking to myself, [at Microsoft] I'm in the catbird seat, it's only a question of how to use it."
www.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/10/01/microsoft/print.html