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...Internet. In 1978, a man named Gary Turk sent an e-mail solicitation to 400 people, advertising his line of new computers. (Turk later said his methods proved so unpopular that it would be more than a decade before anyone would try again.) In late 1994, Usenet - a newsgroup precursor to the Internet - was inundated by an advertisement for the immigration-law services of Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel. Despite the ensuing outcry, the lawyers defended their practice, called their detractors anti-free speech "zealots" and wrote a book about the practice titled How to Make a Fortune...
...search for recent articles, Business search for facts and figures, or a Web search for relevant links. PubSub is also useful; it lets you "subscribe" to a particular search, after which the engine will continue to retrieve new information related to your search as it appears on blogs, in newsgroup discussions or in SEC filings, automatically refreshing your search results so they are ready (one click away from the home page) when you want them...
...YAHOO! Yahoo! Next: Yahoo!'s virtual laboratory at next.yahoo.com offers experimental tools like Mindset, which lets you sort search results according to what you're doing, such as shopping or researching. Yahoo! 360?: This is like Friendster, Blogger and a newsgroup rolled into one. Create an online club with friends or family members and keep a journal with photos and lists of your favorite books, songs and movies. Yahoo! My Web 2.0: My Web lets you tag interesting sites, news stories and blogs, store them in a searchable database and share your finds with friends. You can also see what...
This is like Friendster, Blogger and a newsgroup rolled into one. Create an online club with friends or family members and keep a journal with photos and lists of your favorite books, songs and movies...
...Ogilvy & Mather who has drawn up a set of guidelines for marketing to the Net. (Rule No. 1: Intrusive E-mail is unwelcome.) He insists there's a place for advertising on the network. It's O.K. to post an ad for a used computer, for example, in a newsgroup called comp.system.mac.wanted, or to sell flowers in a corner of the Net marked florist.com. Global Network Navigator, one of the first Internet publishers to include advertising in its offerings, now has 45 online clients, including Lonely Planet Publications, an international publisher of travel guides. "The response has been tremendous," says...