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.
Fade to Black: Metallica wins with the new Napster filter as songs disappear off the lists.Vivendi may sell its stake in AOL France.Amazon and Wal-Mart plan "strategic alliance."The 8th Wonder, Atari: One million Atari games are stored in a limestone mine, 300 feet underground.
Pirates in the waters: Yahoo adopts anti-takeover strategy. S.E.C. finds 23 to blame for dot-com stock price pumping.Oracle's earnings won't meet forecasts.Using Aimster to swap files prevents the RIAA from snooping.With Napster close to shutting down, blank-CD sales
Pachinko6 gained a certain notoriety among web design circles for publishing daily e-mail ‘viruses.’ It was hard to find him, but he finally responded. Rosecrans Baldwin dished with him.
Dub-Dub earmarks $100M for online government.Watch how Bill Gates reacted to the earthquake.Direct Marketing can have horrible results when the gifts go bad. [wsj]Amazon gives away free MP3s in order to inspired CD-sales.Gunshot tracking system installed in LA's worst neighborhoods.Living with
Elliott Smith’s 1995 self-titled album is the album of the week for one reason: the song ‘St. Ides Heaven.’ Yeah, the rest of the album is fantastic, classic Elliott Smith (beautiful vocals, fingerpicking, near-perfect song structures), don’t get me wrong. But it’s ‘St. Ides Heaven’
Sweatshop sneaker prank increases sales and awareness for Nike. [wsj]AOL saves Andreessen again: AOL/TW taps Loudcloud for infrastructure.Smarter companies use technology and people to their best ends, instead of haphazard layoffs.Random House sues start-up over e-book rights.Napster offers indie labels $50M to swap
Dear god: a Napster rip-off that looks for unprotected hard-drives on the Web.EToys files for bankruptcy.AOL accounts for 1/3 of all time Americans spend online.Targeting is hard to do: The Catch-22 of internet advertising.Bertelsmann's back-up plan: Snoopstar, the Napster
Napster's new business plan is the path to the future, and the RIAA knows it.The Future of Flash, part II: Publishers get all worked up over Cnet's new banner ads; expect new standards.Nokia predicts multi-media messaging as the future of wireless.RIAA twists
The ’80s were a lot of things, and one of the things it was was (perhaps) unrealistically horrifying, what with all the movies about post-nuclear-war wastelands (hey, there was even a Tom Petty video that depicted a post-nuclear-war wasteland [see the 1982 photo here]). Well, Austin’
