Word: multimedia
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Word is a "webzine," one of dozens of bright new publications that have blossomed in the past year on the World Wide Web, the hot new multimedia hangout on the Internet. With edgy graphics and clever first-person writing, webzines are attracting a small but fiercely loyal readership. They are also starting to attract something even more important: good old-fashioned advertising. Saab, IBM, MasterCard and clear-beer Zima are among the sponsors whose winking logos bedizen every screenful of Word. And the stimulus of these ad dollars has encouraged even more publishers to come online...
...musical moguls since 1984, when Barry Diller moved from Paramount to 20th Century Fox, Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg from Paramount to Disney, and Frank Wells from Warner Bros. to Disney. Those shifts cued the creation of Fox as a fourth TV network and Disney's growth into a multimedia behemoth . Now, in less than a year, Katzenberg leaves Disney and starts DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen; Ovitz's partner Ron Meyer takes the vacant post at MCA; and Ovitz, the top dealmaker, joins Eisner, the most powerful showman. Says director and CAA client Martin Scorsese: "It will...
Netscape, based in Mountain View, California, makes an essential piece of Internet software known as a browser, which can be thought of as the 3-D glasses your computer wears to pick up images, sounds and text on the World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet. Netscape controls a cozy 70% of the market for browsing software...
...nothing to see yet. For now, Microsoft is happy to direct people out to the Internet, via its somewhat clunky browser, the Internet Explorer. Sometime next year Microsoft will release Blackbird, a so-called developer's tool that could attract content providers by giving them the wherewithal to create multimedia pages that rival anything available on the Internet today. An even bigger plus: Microsoft will handle billing on behalf of its content partners, the merchants who will set up shop there. That could help create a new market for information, based on people purchasing info by the bit, for tiny...
DIED. AL HANSEN, 67, 1960s visual artist who pioneered the avant-garde fusion of multimedia, music, homemade movies and staged events known as "happenings"; of a heart attack; in Cologne, Germany...