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...this tour, you could also see a company in the making. Case teaching Levin about instant messaging: the firm delivers 100 million e-mail messages a day--but more than a billion instant messages. Case argues that that's evidence of a whole new medium. Levin listens and suggests that it might be harnessed to support Time Warner products. An AOL techie points out that they can tell when popular programs come on TV by watching the network traffic fall as users log off. "You could use this to tell when it was time to kill a show," the techie...
...minority writers to whom the networks have, post-N.A.A.C.P., been offering development deals will probably be watching City's fortunes and CBS's patience. Pointing to good ratings for recent TV movies featuring African Americans, CBS Television president Les Moonves says, "We don't need an instant 20 share to be able to let [City] survive" in its uncompetitive 8 p.m. time slot. But they will need both white and minority viewers to thrive and create the kind of cross-cultural exchange City aims at. In the second episode, a white resident panics when an African-American girl shows...
...months later. Instead, he turned to InsightExpress, the country's first fully automated online market-research service. Within a few hours Olstrom learned from it that some new customers were finding the directions for uPublish! hard to follow. "We were able to make changes immediately," Olstrom says. Presto! Instant consumer satisfaction...
Thus, for 30 min. each week a massive audience witnessed, live, a parade of people trying to use their heads to strike it rich. Question quickly spawned a number of instant folk heros and heroines: the New York City cop who had brushed up his Shakespeare ($16,000); the shoemaker opera buff ($32,000); the young psychologist named Joyce Brothers whose specialty was prizefighting...
...COUCH POTATOES WebTV still hasn't caught fire, but that didn't stop America Online from pursuing its own dream of PC-TV convergence. At CES, the world's largest Internet service provider quietly unveiled AOLTV, an interactive TV service via set-top box that will introduce Instant Messages, buddy lists and AOL-style Web browsing to the boob tube by year's end. Hughes Network Systems showed a new form of its DirecTV digital satellite receiver complete with the AOLTV service, and Philips demoed a cable version. Prices were not announced, but current AOL members will probably...