Survey: Net keeps growing 9/20/99, Jennifer Mack, ZDNN. Internet market research group NetRatings said Monday more than 66 million people went online during August, a 6.5 percent increase over July's online population. The 66 million figure represents an 11.5 percent increase in the number of unique Web visitors, compared to August 1998. The total number of people with Internet access now exceeds 108 million. www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2337735-2,00.html
Americans Say E-mail First, Then Research 9/30/99, Mo Krochmal, TechWeb. More Americans are looking to the Internet as a communications tool first, then as a tool for research, according to a survey released Thursday by PricewaterhouseCoopers. www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990930S0011
The Internet Age 9/30/99, Business Week. The power to navigate the world at the click of a mouse is a force that is transforming our lives like none before. www.businessweek.com/1999/99_40/iageframe/iage.htm
Tracking Users Across The Web 9/21/99, Cliff Allen, ClickZ. New opportunities for web partnerships enable us to provide more options and better service to customers, but these same opportunities also bring new challenges in tracking web behavior. gt.clickz.com/cgi-bin/gt/cz/cz.print.me.html?user=ffffffffffff&article=744
Question of the Internet Age: To Regulate or Not to Regulate? 9/29/99, TIME's Board of Economists –- Silicon Valley edition –- convenes to ponder the perks and perils of the latest new era. www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/look/0,2633,31065,00.html
The Best Sites in Life are Free 7/1/99, Shawn Collins, Refer-It.com. Companies such as Carprices.com, Amazon.com, and the One & Only Network have made a big splash in the affiliate marketing arena with their shared revenue programs. But apparently revenue isn't the only thing that matters. www.refer-it.com/main.cfm?screen=info/press009
Symantec Markets Web Content 3/12/99, Steven Vonder Haar, Inter@ctive Week. Symantec has discovered that effective direct marketing online means more than posting product descriptions and list prices on the Web. www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2220281,00.html
A Real Estate Salesman Puts the Web to Work 8/24/98, Whit Andrews, Internet World. Advertising deity David Ogilvy once wrote that advertising snobs could learn a lot from direct-marketing TV ads, the kind of shows that sold Pocket Fishermen in his day. Well, Web snobs could learn a lot from Lou Fricke. www.internetworld.com/print/1998/08/24/ecomm/19980824-bands.html
Power Play 7/1/98, Art Jahnke, CIO WebBusiness. When Douglas Morgan, vice president of information technologies at Kansas City Power & Light (KCPL), wants to see the future of companies like his, he looks west. And what he sees is a blood bath. www.cio.com/archive/webbusiness/070198_ans.html
Are Telephone Companies Marketing Online? 5/4/98, Curt Harler, Inter@ctive Week. Depending on whose research one chooses to believe, 20 percent to 30 percent of Americans are on the Internet and use it for their daily chores. Some people argue, however, that nearly 100 percent of Americans have access to 800 numbers, so they wonder whether Web-based promotion is worthwhile. www.zdnet.com/intweek/print/980504/313659.html
