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A Future Views Focused Research
Project to provide knowledge agents in support of the AdFlight Zoomtrax
Event, February 15, 2001
Comments, questions or suggestions? Contact Jeff
Johnston
Suggestions
of where to go for more knowledge agents ...
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| FastCompany.com
- Good source of "new economy" stuff |
| RedHerring.com -
Good source of "new economy" stuff |
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Wired News - Good
source of "new economy" stuff
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| Wired Magazine -
Good source of "new economy" stuff |
| Business 2.0 - Good
source of "new economy" stuff |
| CyberAtlas
- The Web marketer's guide to online facts. |
| Iterations
Virtual Knowledge Wall® Displays - Check the current K-Wall
page, as well as the pages from last year for a wide variety of interesting
material. |
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$10 paper mobile phone to launch this
year, by Linda Harrison, The Register, January 19, 2001
Category: Opportunities
A US inventor plans to have a $10 paper mobile phone on the market
later this year. The disposable device is the brainchild of Randice-Lisa
Altschul, who has 22 patents on the technology. Called the Phone-Card-Phone,
it is the thickness of three credit cards and made from recycled
paper products. It comes with 60 minutes of calling time and a hands-free
attachment.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/16232.html
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Africa Rising, by John Perry Barlow, WIRED, January
1998
Category: Opportunities
Everything you know about Africa is wrong.
Most Africans stayed out of the loop of the 20th century and were
not homogenized into the generica that is now much of the Northern
Hemisphere, or what they call the North. And thus their continent
- so intensely different from the rest of the world, so vastly different
within itself - represents a huge and still unconnected battery
of stored potential. All it would take for Africa to leapfrog into
the wonderland of an information economy would be to attach the
electrodes - get it wired, in other words - and then watch its huge
voltage zap the gap. Or so went my theory.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.01/barlow.html
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Aimster Aims for More Than Swapping Files, by Michael Hill,
San Jose Mercury News, January 1, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
It might sound like Napster redux. Even the name plays on its famous
forebear: Aimster. But Aimster is no Napster.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com
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Amid Net Wreckage, Two Firms Show How to Climb, by Steven
Syre And Charles Stein, The Boston Globe c.2001
Category: Internet
Pleasant surprises come few and far between in the investment carnage
of the electronic commerce world. But there they were, surrounded
by companies of all kinds busy confirming disappointment from the
immediate past and talking down expectations for the foreseeable
future.
http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/cnd7/2001/01/31/cndin/1661-0321-pat_nytimes.html
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Are movies about to meet their Napster?, by Justin Hibbard,
Red Herring, January 16, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
They called it Project Mayo. The hush-hush operation started last
spring when four entrepreneurs set out to develop a commercial version
of DivX;-). It's software used for passing illegal copies of movies
around the Internet. Fans call it the MP3 of video. Hollywood studios
consider it a tool for piracy. But if Project Mayo's founders are
right, those same studios will soon be knocking at their door with
checks in hand.
http://www.redherring.com/vc/2001/0122/vc-mag-90-divx012201.html
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The Army Is Watching Your Kid, by Jeffrey Benner, WIRED
News, Jan. 29, 2001
Category: Privacy
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the
Department of Defense to explain why it is monitoring the Web surfing
habits of children using the Internet at school.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41476,00.html
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Betting on Bandwidth, by David Sheff, WIRED, February
2001
Category: Opportunities
Edward Tian has a pide dream for China. It's called democracy.
http://www.wired.com/wired
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Big business and government stretch the boundaries of privacy
yet again, by Dan Gillmor, San Joses Mercury News, February
7, 2001
Category: Privacy
In the name of convenience and safety, big business and big government
keep pushing the boundaries of privacy and surveillance. Consider
the latest from online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and the Super Bowl.
Trusting businesses to protect privacy is always a risk, because
personal data is a valuable commodity. That's why I'm hesitant to
take at face value a new Amazon service that looks quite useful
-- and which, at least for now, is sensitive to privacy concerns,
more so than many other e-commerce sites I can name.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg020701.htm
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The Big Picture, The Economist, January 4, 2001
Category: Opportunities
The rivers of electronic information gushing around the worldÕs
companies ought to reveal a lot about how people communicate within
these organisations. But until now the very volume of data involved
has defeated attempts to analyse it. A group of Finnish academic
physicists has, however, developed some nifty software to help with
the task. And, judging by the startled reactions of some of the
managers who have seen the results, it could be of much more than
purely academic interest.
http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=463720
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Boom Box, by Michael Lewis, New York Times Magazine,
August 13, 2000
Category: Media
The new technology from Tivo and replay provides the ultimate in
television convenience. It will also spy on you, destroy prime time
and shatter the power of the mass market.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000813mag-boombox.html
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CEO wants to drive start-up to big time, by David Barboza,
San Jose Mercury News, February 12, 2001
Lloyd D. Ward, the former chief executive of Maytag Corp., is sitting
in a cramped office in San Francisco, talking about how he is going
to make a household name out of a company most people have never
heard of. After 15 stormy months at the top of Maytag, Ward resigned
last November and then stunned corporate America by accepting a
job as chairman and chief executive of an Internet start-up called
iMotors, an online seller of used cars.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/imotors12.htm
(this will be a short lived link)
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Circles of Trust, by Wendy Grossman, Scientific
American, August 2000, pg. 34.
Category: Privacy
How Vouching for Users Beats Encryption Alone in Maintaining
Privacy
http://www.sciam.com/2000/0800issue/0800cyber.html
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The Cluetrain Manifesto
Category: Marketing/Opportunities
People of the Earth ... A powerful global conversation has
begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing
new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct
result, markets are getting smarter - and getting smarter faster
than most companies.
http://www.cluetrain.com/
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The coming backlash in privacy, The Economist, December
7, 2000
Category: Privacy
New privacy services will soon allow consumers to buy goods anonymously
onlineÑforcing web-based retailers to change the way they do business
http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442790
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Computing Goes Everywhere, by Robert Buderi, Technology
Review, January/February 2001
The dream of "ubiquitous computing" has been around for a while.
Now it's serious enough that a company like IBM is willing to throw
$500 million at it.
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/buderi.asp
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Convergence of Media, Entertainment, Computing, and Communications,
by James Herman, InTouch
Category: Media
Convergence is one of those widely used buzzwords that has taken
on many different meanings over the years. In working with companies
across a broad spectrum of industries, we see three primary dimensions
to the concept of convergence: the proliferation of digital technology
infrastructure, an expansion in the forms and uses of content, and
growing overlap among previously separate markets, industries, and
competitors.
http://intouch.3com.com/infocus/convergence/northeast.html
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Convergence, media and marketing: an eye for an I, by Paul
Woolmington, Young & Rubicam, International Advertising Association
Category: Media
IF YOU LET CONVERGENCE into the front of your mind, its presence
is suddenly everywhere. In the magazines you read. The television
programs you watch. The people you talk to. Everyone seems to be
talking about it. As it overtakes the senses, the message crystallizes:
convergence really will change the way we live our life.
http://www.atalink.co.uk/iaa2000/html/p020.htm
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Court Orders Modified Napster Injunction, By REUTERS, New
York Times, February 12, 2000
Category: Napster/P2P
In what the recording industry called a major victory, a U.S appeals
court on Monday said that users of Napster were infringing on copyrights
and that an injunction against the song-swapping service was "not
only warranted but required."
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/business/tech-napster.html
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Death of Banner Ads Exaggerated, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED
News, January 26, 2001
Subject: Marketing
Sick of those pesky little banner ads? Just wait and see what's
around the corner. Despite setbacks, the online advertising industry
is poised to grow and get even more irritating, er, effective, than
ever, Internet pundits say.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41404,00.html
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Digital Divide, So close and yet so far, by Chris Taylor,
Time Magazine, December 4, 2000
Category: Opportunities
It's in everyone's interest to pull the stragglers aboard the high-tech
express, but only education will keep them there.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,90496,00.html
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Digital ink meets electronic paper, The Economist,
December 7, 2000
Category: Opportunities
Printed with digital ink, electronic paper promises an era of reprogrammable
newspapers, books, billboards, garments and even wallpaper.
http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442911
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Don't People Want to Control Their TV's? - Roy Furchgott,
New York Times, August 4, 2000
Category: Media
TiVo and ReplayTV may change viewing habits, but consumers aren't
clamoring for them yet.
http://channel.nytimes.com/2000/08/24/technology/24tivo.html
(Registration on New York Times Website required.)
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Dots Dashed, Unit of One, Lucy McCauley and Christine
Canabou, Fast Company, February 2001, page 85
Category: Internet
Dotcoms come and dotcoms go, but the lessons we learn from them
last a lifetime. The new economy has turned a corner; that's old
news. It's far more interesting and useful to spot the new economy's
new location. Where you think we are now depends a lot on what you
think you learned from the last round. Here's a report from the
GPSs of 16 explorers -- gurus, VCs, leaders, and bleeders -- of
the Internet's opening act.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/one.html
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E-music: Piracy fight turns into long, bumpy road, by John
Borland, ZDNet, January 24, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
Two years have passed since the group of computer, consumer electronics
and record companies agreed to work together toward broad anti-piracy
technology standards. A first round of standards released a year
ago has seen almost no adoption by participating companies, and
a second, more ambitious song protection plan has been long delayed.
http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2678069-2,00.html
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Ebola. Smallpox. Christina Aguilera, by IanÊMount, e-Company
Now, October 2000
Category: Marketing
What do the above have in common? They all spread virally.
http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/print/1,1643,7511,00.html
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Exploring the Science of Change, by Alex Carter, News from
Harvard Medical, Dental and Public Health Schools, May 5, 2000
Category: Marketing
An article on Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point: How Little
Things Can Make a Big Difference
http://www.med.harvard.edu/publications/Focus/2000/May5_2000/forum.html
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Follow Your E-Mail Everywhere, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED
News, February 8, 2001
Category: Privacy
Imagine being able to trace where your e-mail goes, and where it's
forwarded. Say you had a way to verify that the CEO of the Fortune
500 company you've been hounding for a job indeed got the resume
you e-mailed him. Or that you could tell if your girlfriend lied
when she denied getting your message that begged her not to go to
that conference in Jamaica with her assistant who turned out to
be rather hunky?
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,41686,00.html
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Free Riding on Gnutella, by Eytan Adar and Bernardo A. Huberman,
First Monday, October 2000
Category: Napster/P2P
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/adar/index.html
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The Freenet Project - "Re-Wiring the Internet"
Category: Napster/P2P
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
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Friends Don't E-Mail Friends HTML, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED
News, February 6, 2001
Category: Privacy
Carl Voth describes himself as a regular guy -- a 37-year-old family
man who lives in scenic British Columbia with his wife and three
young daughters. But he's also the dude who discovered a fatal flaw
in Microsoft and Netscape programs that allows forwarded e-mails
to be traced and read.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41639,00.html
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The FUTURE
Category: Opportunities
The Phone-Card-Phone is just the beginning. By expanding on our
Super Thin Technology we have developed a variety of groundbreaking
products for the delight and convenience of consumers of all ages.
http://www.dtcproducts.com/future.html
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The Future is Now, WIRED, October 2000
Category: Napster/P2P
Ever since computers started communicating across the ether, geek
pundits, nerd poets, and online philosophers have talked about The
Future The Net Will Bring, foreseeing that the lightning-speed distributive
power of the medium will wreak creative havoc on the world. A few
of these predictions have already come true, a few haven't. For
the most part we've been waiting, impatient and hopeful.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/p2p_intro.html
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Gnutella
Category: Napster/P2P
http://www.gnutella.wego.com/
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Here Comes Paper 2.0, by Ron Dagani, C&E News,
January 15, 2001
Category: Opportunities
Corporate researchers are developing flexible, paperlike electronic
displays that one day may change the way we read books and periodicals.
http://cen.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/79/i03/html/7903sci1.html
(subscription required)
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How We Went Digital Without a Strategy, by Ricardo Semler,
Harvard Business Review, September-October 2000
Category: General
(Click here
for the pdf document)
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In praise of disruption, The Economist, December
7, 2000
Category: General
Technologies such as Bluetooth broadcasting, optical switching,
codeÐmorphing and proteomics are threatening the old industrial
order. Rejoice.
http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442777
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Industry focuses on privacy, by Heather Fleming Phillips,
San Jose Mercury News, February 7, 2001
Category: Privacy
Learning a lesson from a series of high-profile privacy debacles
on the Internet, wireless phone companies are taking steps to win
customers' confidence that their personal information will remain
private, even as the industry develops new technology for tracking
a mobile phone user's every movement.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/wireless07.htm
(this will be a short lived link)
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Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid, by Ian Foster,
Nature Web Matters
Category: Opportunities
A good resource on the distributed computation paradigm of Popular
Power.
"Internet computing and Grid technologies promise to change
the way we tackle complex problems. They will enable large-scale
aggregation and sharing of computational, data and other resources
across institutional boundaries. And harnessing these new technologies
effectively will transform scientific disciplines ranging from high-energy
physics to the life sciences."
http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/grid/grid.html
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Internet Everywhere, by John Adam, Technology Review,
September/October 2000
Category: Opportunities
"Handheld devices are taking computers from personal to intimate.
A new generation of wireless network is coming that could keep everyone
connected all the time."
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep00/adam.asp
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Issues Aside, How Napster Works and What It Really
Matters, by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August
5, 2000.
Category: Napster/P2P
"To understand why Napster and its clones may
be the most significant development in software since the graphical
Web browser, you have to forget about music, copyright and piracy."
"Napster is a giant step toward turning the Web
into what it was always supposed to be -- a multi-directional medium
that gives consumers of information an easy, powerful way to be
producers too."
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg080600.htm
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Latin America: The Mobile World, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED
News, Jan. 25, 2001
Category: Opportunities
While cell phones are basically prestigious toys in the United
States, they're a necessity in many parts of Latin America.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41309,00.html
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A Love Song for Napster, by Jaron Lanier, Discover,
February 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
Imagine what could happen to democracy if the courts kill off this
popular software.
http://www.discover.com/feb_01/gthere.html?article=featnapster.html
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Marc Andreessen: Act II, by George Anders, Fast Company,
February 2001
Category: Internet
What's still true -- and what was never true -- about the Internet.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/andreessen.html
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The Media Lab at a Crossroads, by David H.
Freedman, Technology Review, September-October 2000
Category: Opportunities
"Fierce competition, radical expansion, a dubious
funding model and maybe even a new director spell the end of an
era. Can a trailblazing enterprise survive and thrive?"
Straight out of the Stages
of an Enterprise Model, MIT's Media Lab pushes the Entrepreneurial
Button.
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep00/freedman.asp
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More on the $10 paper mobile phone,
by Linda Harrison, The Register, January 24, 2001
Last week we reported that $10 mobile phones made of paper were
scheduled to launch themselves onto the US market in the third quarter
of 2001.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16348.html
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Music's Model Not Made for TV, by Brad King, WIRED News,
Jan. 25, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
Buckle up movie mavens, consumers are itching to take you for a
ride. Discussions at this week's annual meeting of the National
Association of Television Programming Executives focused not so
much on digital rights management and security, but on developing
tracking applications that would identify pirates after their works
were stolen.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41385,00.html
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Music Sites Laud Napster's Nadir, by Brad King, WIRED
News, Jan. 30, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
A new fee-based Napster is music to the ears of struggling entertainment
sites.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41491,00.html
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Napster Faces Shutdown, by Brad King, WIRED News,
February 12, 2001
Napster faces extinction for the second time in six months.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41752,00.html
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Napster's Offspring, by Brad Stone, Newsweek, October
16, 2000
Peer-to-peer upstarts try to fulfill a pioneer's promise.
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The Napsterization of B2B, by Andrew McAfee, Harvard
Business Review, November-December 2000
When companies can complete complex transactions among themselves
through peer-to-peer networks, the need for centralized exchanges
decreases dramatically.
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New Snail-Mail Service 'Ads' Up, by Farhad Manjoo, WIRED
News, February 8, 2001
Ah, the love letter -- still a beautiful institution. Even now,
in this era of instant communication, nothing says "I Love You"
like a romantic missive that comes in the mail, as powerful as a
kiss. But with the U.S. Postal Service hiking its first-class mail
rate faster than you can cash in your stock options -- the new 34-cent
rate will likely be upped again next year -- and with Valentine's
day around the corner, you might find your love letters straining
your budget a little. But despair not, says Wilson Zehr, the co-founder
and CEO of a company called Zairmail; using his website, you can
send hundreds of snail-mail letters without any hassles -- no envelopes,
etc. -- and all for free, he says. The catch? You agree to let the
company insert some advertisements in the envelope.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41647,00.html
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News Flash, by Paul Kunkel, WIRED, August 2000
Category: Media
Scrap the presses - print and the Web are racing toward the biggest
media merger in history.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/epapers.html
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The Next Economy Of Ideas, by John Perry Barlow, WIRED,
October 2000
Category: Napster/P2P
Will copyright survive the Napster bomb? Nope, but creativity will.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/download.html
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Online privacy matters, by Luc Hatlestad, Redherring.com,
January 18, 2001
Category: Privacy
http://www.redherring.com/industries/2001/0118/ind-mag-90-privacy011801.html
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The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference, Westin St. Francis
Hotel, San Francisco, CA February 14-16, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
The cluster of technologies we're now calling peer-to-peer is a
melting pot of ideas that's about to boil over. The O'Reilly P2P
Conference, the first and most important conference on P2P, will
provide a unique opportunity for developers, entrepreneurs, investors,
and those making technology-buying decisions to find out what's
really going on.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/
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Open Letter: We need an online privacy bill of rights, Red
Herring Magazine, January 16, 2001
Red Herring editors appeal to president-elect Bush to create an
electronic version of our bill of rights, for everybody's sake.
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue90/mag-90-president.html
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Internet going to 'next level', by Joshua L. Kwan, San
Jose Mercury News, February 12, 2001
Napster could be just the beginning. The technology that undergirds
the music file-swapping phenomenon is the first generation of what's
being heralded as a revolution on the Internet: peer-to-peer, or
P-to-P, networking. And it has much more than Britney Spears in
its sights.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/peer12.htm
(this will be a short lived link)
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P2P Pages, Wired's Guide to Global File-Sharing, WIRED,
October 2000
Category: Napster/P2P
This list of 240-plus downloads, services, and information resources
- most of them free - is designed for experienced P2Pers and novices
alike.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/p2p_pages.html
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Phone friend, by Duncan Graham-Rowe, New Scientist,
January 31, 2001
Category: Opportunities
Software agents can use your pattern of mobile phone use to foil
thieves. The way you use your mobile phone could help to foil potential
thieves. So say software engineers who have developed a fraud detection
system that uses artificial intelligence to monitor your phone usage,
making sure you're the rightful owner.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/newsletter.jsp?id=ns9999370
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Pink Slip in Your Genes, by Diane Martindale, Scientific
American, January 2001
Category: Privacy
"Evidence builds that employers hire and fire based on genetic
tests; meanwhile protective legislation languishes."
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0101issue/0101scicit2.html
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Populist Power Tools, by Seth Shulman, Technology Review,
January/February 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
The take-home message from Napster: Songs won't remain shrink-wrapped.
We'd better get used to it!
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Positive Deviant, by David Dorsey, Fast Company, December
2000
Category: General
Jerry Sternin's job was to help save starving children in Vietnam.
Faced with an impossible time frame, he adopted a radical approach
to making change. His idea: Real change begins from the inside.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/41/sternin.html
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The Power of Memes, by Susan Blackmore, Scientific American,
October, 2000, pg. 64
Category: Marketing
"Behaviors and ideas copied from person to person by imitation
- memes - may have forced human genes to make us what we are today."
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Publishing Without a Net, by Robin Clewley, WIRED News,
Sep. 16, 2000
Category: Media
Interested in reading the latest article online from Talk magazine?
How about Vanity Fair? What about that one article that came out
a few months back in The New Yorker? Don't even think about looking
for these articles using the Web. They don't exist. You'll have
to head to your local library and thumb through the old card catalogue.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38643,00.html
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Putting Napster's Technology to Other Uses,
by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2000
Category: Napster/P2P
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg080900.htm
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Radio Active, by Alex Markels, WIRED, June 2000
Category: Media
Up against the megastations in a battle for the airwaves, do-it-yourself
DJs are deploying two potent weapons - 100-watt transmitters and
the global reach of the Web.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.06/radio.html
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Radio Star Rising, Charles Graeber, WIRED, February
2001
Category: Media
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The Revolution Will Not Be Napsterized, by Rafe Needleman,
Redherring.com, January 26, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
http://www.redherring.com/cod/2001/0129.html
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The Revolution Won't be Televised. It'll be synchronized!,
by David Coursey,ÊZDNet, January 30, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
There's a saying that "the revolution will be televised." Maybe
it has been already, but my revolution -- and it's happening right
now -- will be synchronized. Synchronization is one of the big hurdles
that we must overcome before our information can follow us wherever
we go.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2679949,00.html
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Robot Nails Online Gossips, by Duncan Graham-Rowe
Category: Opportunities
Rumor mongers beware: software robots are patrolling the Internet
with the sole purpose of tracing idle or malicious gossip to its
source.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/newsletter.jsp?id=ns227617
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Satellite radio, by Barry Fox, New Scientist, January
24, 2000
Category: Media
Billions are being spent to try to deliver ad-free radio stations
from satellites to moving vehicles.
http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999354
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Scient's Near-Death Experience, by Keith H. Hammonds, Fast
Company, February 2001, 43, page 99
Category: Internet
The leaders of Scient Corp. built a thriving, fast-growing consulting
firm that owed its very life to the Internet economy. Then the dotcoms
imploded -- and many of Scient's customers folded. Here's how the
firm is preparing for the next economy.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/scient.html
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The State of the Internet, by Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka,
Something Aweful, January 15, 20001
Category: Internet
Many people simply assume that the Internet and online advertising
is simply a failed venture that cannot ever work. However, nobody
is asking the more important questions: why has Internet advertising
failed? Can any successful advertising model be implemented that
will support online entertainment? What is the future of this market?
I'd like to take a brief look at these questions and offer my input
regarding the current online advertising crisis which is burning
through networks like a wildfire.
http://somethingawful.efront.com/features/stateoftheinternet/
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Strategy as Simple Rules, by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and
Donald N. Sull, Harvard Business Review, January-February
2001
Category: General
(Click here for the
pdf document)
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Ten Passed Technologies, by Nick Montfort, Technology
Review, January/February 2001
Category: General
Not every disappearing technology deserves that fate. Sometimes
the "losers" have an elegance and simplicity the "winners" lack.
Here are ten examples.
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/montfort.asp
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Text of Napster Ruling, February 12, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
http://www.lycos.com/news/flash/napstertext.html
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Themes and ideas: Communities of practice, Etienne Wenger
Category: General
What if the key to the complex knowledge challenges faced by most
organizations today lies in age-old, utterly familiar, and largely
informal social structures known today as communities of practice?
How would we "manage" knowledge? What shape would a knowledge strategy
take?
http://www.ewenger.com/ewthemes.html
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Things That Matter: Khmer Kids Link to the Future, by Michael
Hawley, Technology Review, January/February 2001
Category: General
As the digital industries grow out of their adolescence, people
are beginning to question where these technologies are really taking
us. So when an old lab's research themes fade and new ones emerge,
folks pay attention. And at the Media Lab, the freshest aims involve
domains such as art and human expression, creative societies in
developing nations, expeditionary and ecological field efforts,
and Media Labs in other countries as an ongoing way to explore creative
technology in indigenous contextsÑbold and humane efforts that take
computing and communication and any other sort of imaginative technology
utterly for granted, like paper or duct tape.
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/hawley.asp
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The Transparent Society, by David Brin, WIRED, December
1996
Category: Privacy
The cameras are coming. They're getting smaller and nothing will
stop them. The only question is: who watches whom?
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent.html
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Viral Publishing, by Tom Ehrenfeld, The Standard,
May 8, 2000
Category: Marketing
Ideas are like viruses, and they can spread at Internet speed.
Malcolm Gladwell is learning just how fast with his bestselling
book, The Tipping Point.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14701,00.html
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Vivendi's High Wireless Act, by Frank Rose ,WIRED,
December 2000
Category: Media
CEO Jean-Marie Messier's deals with Vodafone and Seagram were
a star turn on the European stage. As information becomes truly
portable, a global media company paired with continent-wide distribution
may prove an unbeatable combination.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/vivendi.html
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Wait! Don't Forward That E-Mail, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED
News, February 5, 2001
Category: Privacy
A simple JavaScript could make millions of e-mail accounts vulnerable
to what basically amounts to illegal wiretapping, a privacy group
reported Monday.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,1282,41608,00.html
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We Have Lift-Off, The Economist, February 1, 2001
Category: Internet
Despite the dot.com crash, despite the job cuts announced this
week by Amazon.com, the leading online retailers are big successful
businesses. But the path they are following is not the one they
first thought of.
http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=493932
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The Wealth of Notions, Top 50 Global Brand Values, Infoporn,
WIRED, October 2000
Category: Marketing
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What New Economy?, Q&A with Lou Gerstner of IBM , Technology
Review, January/February 2001
Category: General
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/print_version/gerstner.html
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Where Have All the Computers Gone?, By John Seely Brown,
Technology Review, January/February 2001
Category: Opportunities
The following document arrived at the offices of Technology Review
in a time capsule dated 2020. It purports to be a history of computers
written by computer scientist-turned-historian John Seely Brown.
In the late 20th century, Dr. Brown served as director of Xerox
Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center.
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/brown.asp
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Where in the World?, Alexandra Stikeman, Technology Review,
January/February 2001, pg. 34
Category: Opportunities
A new scheme unites the Internet and geography
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Where Napster is Taking the Publishing World, by Clay Shirky,
Harvard Business Review, February 2001
A review of John Alderman's Sonic Boom: MP3, Napster, and the
New Pioneers of Music
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Whither Latino E-Commerce?, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED
News, Jan. 30, 2001
Category: Opportunities
When the self-proclaimed worldwide Internet commerce authority
cancels a conference on Latin America, you know there's trouble.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41498,00.html
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Why You Can't Sell What You Buy, by Brad King, WIRED
News, January 16, 2001
Category: Napster/P2P
In the digital age, copy protection might not be copy protection.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41184,00.html
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Winning in a Converging World, by Chris Mole, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Category: Marketing
The speed at which product markets are converging is one of the
critical trends in marketing. Market Convergence is forcing reinvention
of how companies define themselves and how they compete. A set of
six 'convergence capabilities' are emerging as critical to succeeding
in a converging world.
http://www.pwcglobal.com/extweb/indissue.nsf/DocID/85C1435BA01326AD852567A10055B3EE
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The Wireless Web, Mark Alpert and George Musser, Scientific
American, October 2000
Category: Opportunities
- The Internet in Your Hands
- The Promise and Perils of WAP
- The Future is Here. Or is It?
- The Third-Generation Gap
http://www.sciam.com/2000/1000issue/1000alpert.html
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With AOLTV, It's Lonely at the Set Top, by Edmund Sanders
Category: Media
In AOLTV, no one can hear you scream.
http://www.latimes.com/business/columns/techcol/20010125/t000007113.html
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You Got the Power, by Howard Rheingold, WIRED, August
2000
Next comes the payoff. A wave of startups is poised to harvest
the network's most wasted resource: your idle CPU cycles.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/comcomp.html
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Your Work is Mine!, by Michael Dertouzos, Technology
Review, November/December 2000
Category: Napster/P2P
Let's not hide behind excuses. Napster is an act of aggrression
that boasts, "I am entitled to your work for free."
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| The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Musings on Linux and Open Source
by an Accidental Revolutionary, by Eric S. Raymond, O'Reilly,
1999. Click here
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| The Cluetrain Manifesto, The End of Business as Usual, Rick
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| The Control Revolution, How the Internet is Putting Individuals
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| The End of Privacy, The Attack on Personal Rights - At Home,
At Work, On-Line, and In Court, by Charles J. Sykes, St. Martins,
1999. Click here
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| From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure, Access
to Information in the Networked World, by Christine L. Borgman, MIT
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| How Hits Happen, by Winslow Farrell, Harper Business, 1997.
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| The Innovator's Dilemma, When New Technologies Cause Great Firms
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| New Rules For the New Economy, by Kevin Kelly, Viking, 1998.
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| Out of Control, The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems,
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| Secrets and Lies, Digital Security in a Networked World,
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| The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,
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The Transparent Society, Will Technology Force Us to Choose
Between Privacy and Freedom?, by David Brin, Perseus, 1998. Click
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| Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce, L. Jean Camp, MIT Press,
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| The Visionary's Handbook, Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the
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