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A Common Cause?

Those of us in the Internet industries are accustomed to finding common cause in times of controversy. On issues of liberty or taxation your interests and those of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) are usually the same interest.

Speeding The Net With Explorer 5.0

Your server logs are sprouting some new entries. In the last week Microsoft released the beta version of its Internet Explorer 5.0 browser, while Netscape (an AOL shop) is expected to respond soon with Version 5.0 of its Communicator.

Answer This Note

People ask me all the time, what's the one thing I can do now to grow my Internet business? My answer is simple and direct. Answer your e-mail! Answer it now and answer it well. Everyone who e-mails you is looking for an excuse to buy from you, or looking for a reason to trust you. If you give the...

Will AOL Kill Netscape?

America Online does not have a good record when buying Web software companies. (Remember Navisoft?) So now that its acquisition of Netscape Communications Inc. is complete, there may be reason for those of us in e-commerce to be nervous.

10,000 – Not Just A Number

After seeming to drop in, then lipping-out like a 3-foot putt on a Saturday's golf at Nassau, the Dow Jones Industrial Average powered through the 10,000 level March 19 like it wasn't even there. What does the new record mean for electronic commerce?

Your Internet Candidate

Your success has politicians salivating. Politicians sniff out contributors the way French hunting dogs sniff out truffles. Juicy controversies demanding action are the bait for their hook. You, sir or madam, are the fish, the big game in the Great Game, and for the year 2000 the game is already a...

Let’s Talk About Taxes

No one likes paying taxes. But no one likes bumpy roads or getting mugged either. The fact is that (for good or ill) much of America's state and local government spending is funded by sales taxes. But most Internet transactions are free of sales tax. Web stores are treated the same way direct mail...

The Myth Of Number One

In putting $750 million into Go2Net this week, Paul Allen has stuck a fork in one of the hoariest Internet myths, namely that in this market you're either number one or nowhere.

Get Ready For Internet Sales Taxes

A spokesman for Rep. Billy Tauzin told the E-Commerce Times that the Louisiana Republican was serious last week when he warned Web merchants that states and localities will win the right to impose sales taxes on their transactions.

Yahoo! Enhances E-Commerce Platform

Search leader Yahoo! enhanced its own e-commerce efforts by delivering transaction capabilities to its small merchants and signing CyberShop as a new anchor tenant in its growing mall.

Smaller Booksellers Unite Against Online Giants

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) announced today that it will build an e-commerce portal for small independent bookstores, that will be located at Booksense.com.

In-Store Video Promos Go Online

Video Pipeline Inc., of Haddonfield, New Jersey, a long-time provider of in-store video promotions, is now offering the service to Internet based storefronts.

The Battle For MP3

If you're involved in music, or any technology that must be streamed, the present battle over the MP3 format deserves a close look.

Big Internet, Little Internet

The Coca-Cola Co. announced recently it had bought, and will re-develop, a vast stretch of land opposite my kids' small private school in downtown Atlanta. On the next block an Embassy Suites Hotel is going up, and across from there, Turner Broadcasting is renovating its giant CNN Center. In this en...

Microsoft As Victim

Microsoft wants the government's help in breaking a vicious monopoly, and the case could set a powerful precedent for electronic commerce.

Time To Move On?

On March 8, Intel announced it has reached a settlement on anti-trust charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission. Before the terms were even public, reports surfaced that Microsoft is discussing a settlement of its problems with the U.S. Department of Justice.

What Diller Knows (And Doesn’t Know)

Barry Diller was the headline maker at last week's Jupiter Consumer Online conference in New York. The headline was he won't sweeten his deal to acquire Lycos, whose shareholders will take a 30% interest in a new outfit that includes Diller's Home Shopping Channel. Beneath the headline was a lectu...

Music Men Of The Web

"When the man dances, certainly boys what else. The piper pays him." So concludes the musical introduction to Prof. Harold Hill, "The Music Man" of the 1958 Meredith Wilson musical, a role made famous by the late great Robert Preston.

Dell’s Got Game

What's the key to becoming a successful Internet reseller? First, learn to go direct.

The 5-Second Rule For Internet Advertising

My 11 year-old daughter played in a YMCA basketball tournament last weekend, and was shocked to learn that when she held the ball for more than five seconds, without passing it, the referee would give it to the other team. It turns out that's a good rule for Internet advertising as well.

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