MTV plans big stakes on its new website, with music downloading being the highlight as Napster dies.In bad economic times, people turn on the "genetically inferior."Once the party's over, the apartments open up: SF post-boom. Companies love to advertise and promote with the
Digital art may be groundbreaking, but it can still be bland: The Whitney Twins.Complete Control: AOL makes pacts with Movietickets.com and Ticketmaster.When links become illegal: The Better Business Bureau refuses friends on the Net.With Bush ready to drill, Alaskan Federal websites get edited, no matter the
Writers take their stories to the supreme court, for millions of dollars.Reuters, with Microsoft's .NET blessing, is introducing an open-standards IM for finance industry, hoping to have traders someday buy by IM.When Madonna's new video (directed by Stocker Guy Richie) got banned from
Salon begins to charge for "premium" content: more stories and no ads.New Pepsi ad, with Britney Spears, will have a sneaky preview on Yahoo.All New Yorkers have cell phones, and hate themselves for it; now they're scared they'll start using them on
MIT Futurist blames net-economy on badly-designed computers.Fed may cut interest rates today; should we consult the Greenspan briefcase index?AOL/TW & Sun tell the Fed that MS's Hailstorm is a "choke-hold".AOL spam fliter rejected 100,000+ emails from Earthlink.Palm
Microsoft will unleash a hailstorm to turn dot-net into dot-net-profits.Verizon will use Lucent to build always-on wireless Web.Previous tech growth won't be duplicated because it simply didn't exist."I know there's demand for this because I get
Salon and Inside look for buyers as Web zines lose their attitudes.Shill bidders get busted for false auctioning; 1,100 counts.Loudcloud raises $150M at $6 a share.Bezos gets probed for stock trades.Ang Lee tends to cry at good movies; now you can watch one with him.
Yahoo loses its CEO and warns of worse sales in Q1 than predicted.The Dot-com economy was based on venture greed and ego (among other things).What does music look like? Algorithms applied to sound.Great photography at Pixelgraphy.OSX goes to Gold Master and prepares for the March
Where portals have failed, blogs have succeeded: the secret behind the phenomenon.Judge orders Napster to curb copyrighted trading in two days (burn! burn! burn!).AOL launches a Netscape-navigational toolbar on its sites (time.com, etc.)The first web-cam ever, of a coffee pot, is going offline.The
Bertellsman's black helicopters prepare: Canadian maverick moves Napster-clone off-shore to data haven.Andreessen will launch another IPO, with no chance of Netscape's glory.Amazon-owned site, Bibliofind, gets hacked with 98,000 customer records on the loose.Hotmail chooses for you to receive spam.
