Vote for your favorite Internet entrepreneur and you could win
Cdn$500. Internet Business Journal needs the following, one entry
per person: 1) A nomination for Internet Entrepreneur of 1994,
with explanation. 2) Your favorite Internet store during 1994,
and why. 3) The most creative 1994 example of Internet
advertising, and why. 4) The worst 1994 Internet advertising,
and why. Email to Michael Strangelove ,
Strangelove Internet Enterprises, Inc., by 2/20/95. "We are
curious to see how often lawyers will be picked and for which
categories." [net-hap, 1/2/95.]
Gleason Sackman is interviewed in the 1/95 issue of Internet
World, pp. 80-81. He's the "unsung hero" behind the Net-
Happenings news stream, sponsored by InterNIC Information
Services. [Kathleen M. Rutkowski , net-hap,
1/4/95.] (Just ask me if you want to know how to sign up
for any of these things, or what the abbreviations mean.)
Carl Malamud, 35, got a picture story in the SJM Business
section. Although he's written five books, his fame is the
Internet Multicasting Service -- founded with $40K in credit-card
debt -- and its audio broadcasts over the Internet Mbone.
Malamud has apparently achieved "overnight" success via a free
20-minute Rolling Stones concert in November. "Now a lot of
people are trying to figure out how to get their hands on it
and turn it commercial." Mbone can be used for video or for
electronic "whiteboard" transmission. "It's still an experimental
service. We're explicitly preventing its growth. If we stopped
jumping on it, it would take off." Malamud likes non-profit
status (and intentions) because he can easily cut deals with both
government and industry. Also, corporations have donated cash
and equipment, and dozens of top researchers are contributing
three days each. Malamud pays himself $72K/year, from the
$650K-$900K/year that he's raising. "He's got ideas about
how to take this thing called Internet, which was not a profitable
business, and make it into something we could sell." He was also
the force behind free public access to SEC data, and he's trying
to do the same for Patent Office files. And he set up a free
Internet fax service, and access to speeches in Congress.
One plan is to link audio files of speeches to text in the
Congressional Record. For more info, try
or . [David Bank, SJM, 1/8/95, 1E.]
Robert Seidman's "In, Around and Online" newsletter,
AKA online-l, has grown to 2K subscribers and perhaps 10K readers
in just 3.5 months. It covers growth of the Internet, WWW,
and other online services. Send a "subscribe online-l your name"
message to . [, online-l,
1/1/95. net-hap.]
It's flattering to be chosen "Cool Site of the Day,"
but it can also put a tremendous burden on a small system.
The multimedia
art site logged 45K accesses in 36 hours. (Each page requested
or link followed is an access.) Such loads can cause your boss
to question a resource that was set up to serve a few friends
or a local group. It's best to ask before you draw large numbers
of people to a URL. [Dorian Dowse ,
c.i.www.providers, 1/5/95.]
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