Internet business trends

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• "Google it" -- word of mouth makes household words
• Divergence and fragmentation of Internet activities and markets
• Keep it simple -- sometimes an ordinary list is more valuable than a database
• Hunting wild tunes and videos with Kazaa
• Group grope -- trying to get business benefit from Yahoo Groups
• It's alive! Alive! -- XBox goes online
• Clues to online success in today's down business environment
• Coping with email pollution -- viruses, scams and spam
• Building a store at Yahoo
• The microphone may be mightier than the keyboard: business uses of speech recognition
• Business model in motion -- Yaga offers an alternative to advertising for content-rich Web sites
• A great way to get feedback -- but will anyone use it? Quick Topic Document Review
• Cyberwinds -- which way are the winds of change blowing?
• Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
• Yaga, Yaga do! -- P2P meets micropayments
• Baseball -- the killer app for audio over the Internet
• Text chat choices
• Message from Mongolia
• Beyond McLuhan -- many parallel media, and discussion, not message
• PalTalk -- a free voice chat alternative for distance education and business
• Business opportunities for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks
• Rethinking "books" and "ebooks" -- stating the obvious (which often seems to be ignored.)
• Free talk flourishes
• What free stuff is left and and why? recommended sites
• Beyond banner ads: how to turn a newspaper audience into revenue
• Half is more than enough -- another online retail business model
• Banner ads are dead, long live online advertising
• How businesses can capitalize on Java Puzzle Cards
• Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers
• Your private disk drive on the Web -- MangoMind from MangoSoft
• The leap to multimedia -- it all depends on disk space
• The future of the Internet and the future of business
• Survival of the startups - how to recruit the right people and build loyalty and create a motivating - who has time for this?
• The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry
• Learn to ask the right questions
• Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story (about Raging Search)
• Turning Web traffic into revenue -- affiliate and related programs
• Another look at the future -- divergence is the next challenge
• When progress is a step backward -- in praise of plain-text email
• Make your presentations in Internet, instead of PowerPoint
• Building businesses on top of businesses -- the AuctionRover example
• Thoughts about 3D on the Web
• Internet lessons from London
• Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch
• Sales channels and the Web
• What ever happened to virtual companies?
• Wireless Internet from a business perspective
• Business opportunities opened by high-speed access
• DSL vs. cable for high-speed Internet access
• Scanning for gold -- Experiences in the global electronic environment
• Book -- The Social Web how to build a successful personal or business Web site
• Book -- The Way of the Web lessons from the Internet -- how to adapt to the new business environment

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