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...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...
TechNet and CapNet insist that they complement each other. AOL, for instance, belongs to both camps because of its merger with Netscape. Still, the two Nets are likely to clash occasionally. CapNetters such as MCI WorldCom, Network Solutions, Teligent and Proxicom are heavily involved in the Internet and telecommunications, while TechNet is a little more software oriented. CapNet is more focused on local issues, like relieving traffic snarls near Dulles International Airport. "We push for policies that would help the region accommodate growth," says Vic Fazio, a former Democratic California Congressman and lobbyist who co-chairs CapNet...
...Democrats and serves as a clearinghouse for information and policy proscriptions about the new economy. But Chuck Manatt's pleading and Mark Bisnow's bus tour persuaded the upstart firms in Virginia and Maryland to band together to give TechNet a run for its PAC money. Led by AOL, Washington-area tech companies formed CapNet last summer to serve as TechNet's echo on the East Coast. It operates much like TechNet except lawmakers don't have to fly across the continent to pick up their campaign-finance checks. The CapNet political-action committee has raised...
...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...