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With war raging in Iraq, a new virus emerging in Asia and terrorism spreading around the world, there's a new premium on up-to-date information. AOL members can visit the bulletin boards at Keyword: Travel Community. Web wanderers can check out these sites...
...many retailers, playing the portal game means paying for high-profile promotions in all the right categories and top placement in search returns. In the case of Proflowers, Web users who enter, say, the flowers category at shopping.yahoo.com or run a keyword search for delphinium at shopping.msn.com might see a colorful ad--maybe a pop-up, maybe just text and a photo--for a specific offer ("One Dozen Roses! $29.99"). All told, Proflowers pays in the low to mid-seven figures for a year's worth of portal ads. Depending on the contract, it might share a piece...
...constant access to their favorite papers and magazines from around the world, NewsStand.com just keeps getting better. Using proprietary software, the site creates digital replicas of more than 40 publications in several languages, from Barron's to India's Tarun Bharat, and enhances them with features like zooming and keyword searches. The site sold some 500,000 issues last quarter and adds new publications almost weekly. NewsStand beams Harvard Business Review to readers in more than 100 countries, and a fifth of the New York Times's 3,800 electronic subscribers are from outside the U.S. Users can buy annual...
...Microsoft Journal program, which allows you to write and organize notes in a spiffy "digital-ink" format that replicates real writing. You can change colors, use a highlighter, doodle, even erase a word by scratching it out. Notes can be archived and searched by keyword, although since hit-and-miss handwriting recognition is in play, searching may be less than reliable...
Once you have your pics (and, one assumes, some witty prose in mind), go online. Many places host Web pages. Three easy-to-use sites are Yahoo GeoCities www.geocities.com) AOL Hometown (for members, Keyword: Hometown) and Homestead Personal www.homestead.com) Each offers a quick, template-based option designed to have your home page up in about an hour...