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...where the market goes from here is no longer up to Greenspan. Investors could get back to focusing on earnings reports and profit forecasts, although mental knots over news like that produced a very dispirited July for NASDAQ. Or the next object of suspense could be the Time Warner-AOL merger decision, due in the fall from the FCC, which could set the regulatory climate for at least the next year (Time Warner, of course, is parent of this site). Or even the election, as Monday's damage-control dance continues with Gore sounding the battle cry and Lieberman whispering...
...solution was simple: treat the Internet as a democracy. Google interprets connections between websites as votes. The most linked-to sites win the Google usefulness ballot and rise to the top of search results. More weight is given to "voters" with millions of links themselves, such as Amazon or AOL. If the big hitters are pointing to your Tiger site, Google says it's cool. Popularity equals quality...
READY, AIM...FILE! America Online saw its ubiquitous AOL Instant Messenger software (AIM for short) hijacked last week by a new and fiendishly clever program called Aimster. Aimster takes AIM's popular buddy-list feature and adds a file-swapping function a la the controversial Napster. To date, AOL has made no move against Aimster, but it's clear that the would-be future parent of Warner Music (and of TIME) will have some tough choices ahead. Aimster is available at www.aimster.com at least...
...Monument. It's only fitting that the office of Oliver Carr, the city's premier bricks-and-mortar developer for the past 40 years, now belongs to James V. Kimsey, co-founder of America Online and the guy who brought the new economy to Washington's doorstep by keeping AOL in his hometown. He entered the high-tech world in the early '80s when he became chief executive of Control Video Corp., an interactive-games company. Then Kimsey hired a kid from Pizza Hut named Steve Case. In 1985 he and Case started Quantum Computer Services, the company that became...
...many new features of Timeforkids.com the cybersibling of TIME FOR KIDS magazine that was relaunched last week. In addition to this kid-friendly introduction to the American political process, the site provides late-breaking news stories, research tools and homework help. Come visit at www.timeforkids.com or use AOL Keyword...