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Internet Showcase Special Part 2 (2/22/2000)

Highlights of the Internet Showcase conference produced by Upside magazine. Shot on location in Palm Springs, California. Featured guests include ABC's Sam Donaldson, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Peter Lewis of the New York Times, Michael Miller of PC magazine, Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies, and AT&T CTO David Nagel. Originally broadcast in 2000.


This movie is part of the collection: Computer Chronicles

Keywords: Episode year: 2000; Conferences: Showcase Special; Voice Reconigtion; Internet News; e-commerce

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Internet News:

ABC News.com
Sam Donaldson, network television journalist for more than thirty years, says he is a firm believer in the Internet as the future medium for all news. He now hosts a regular fifteen minute web cast show called Sam Donaldson at ABC News.com.

New York Times
Another well know news heavyweight moving aggressiblley into Internet news is the New York Times.

Internet Business:

@Backup
@Backup is a simple way to back up your files on a web site. Just click on the files you want to back up, and they automatically get sent to your virtual back up drive in cyberspace.

X-Drive
Another online storage service offering up to 100 megabytes of storage space for free. What’s cool about X-drive is that it appears like just another drive on your Windows desktop. You have your ‘C drive’, ‘D drive’ and now your ‘X Drive. You can choose to download at another time and it's incredibly fast – a three megabyte song move over to the X-drive can happen in twenty seconds.

i-drive
i-drive makes it easy to save web sites. Just grab the information you want, and transfer it to your i-drive. It collects all the HTML and metadata and it works much faster than a bookmark when it comes to retrieving that data.

Zoomerang
Zoomerang lets you add surveys to your web site so you can get organized feedback from your customers, your business associates or your friends.

Voice Recognition:

Firetalk
Firetalk takes net telephony to the next phase. All you need is the plug-in, and you can talk to any one. You can even carry on a conference call with several people at once. Firetalk also automatically alerts you to other Firetalk users who are logged on to that same site so that you can also chat with other people who happen to be looking at the same site as you.

Pagoo
Pagoo is another new web based voice service, designed for people who have only one phone line for voice and net access. With Pagoo, even if you’re online when someone calls you, they can leave a voice message that will automatically play on your computer while you are doing other work.

E-Commerce:

E-Boodle
E-Boodle is a neat shopping assistant. It’s a web crawler, which does the usual shopping comparisons for you on different web sites or auction sites. It goes one step further, providing an e-shopping management tool. It puts all your online shopping transactions in one file so you can easily check up on what you’ve bought, the status of an order, confirmation number, and purchase bonuses earned.

Accompany
Accompany is taking a new approach to group buying on the Web. Accompany is an aggregator of buying power. It makes deals with other e-commerce sites and then offers fleet pricing to individual buyers who form buying groups on the Web with up to 50% off.

Handshake.com
Handshake.com is a site where you can find local service providers offering everything from house cleaning to baby sitting.

BestOffer.com
BestOffer.com is putting used car sales on the Web. If you want to sell a car, BestOffer actually sends out a mechanic to check out your car, create a detailed condition report, and then post that report on their web site. The site also provides a search engine so you can look for particular kinds of used cars along with escrow and financing services.

ibooks.com
ibooks delivers your reading material electronically. When you are shopping for books, you can search for key terms and then actually look inside the book to make sure it has what you want Then when you’re ready to buy it, ibooks downloads the book to your personal online bookshelf.

Net Perceptions
Net Perceptions is a very interesting web service that makes it easy to figure out what it is you want to buy. You fill in a simple questionnaire online, and then Net Perceptions will find what they call “shopping soul mates” who have similar tastes.

Share Your World.com
Is an online talent agency for consumers who want to sell digital media to broadcasters and advertisers. Just post your video clips or your photos on the site, and buyers can scan the inventory and hopefully make you an offer.

WebCaskets.com
The folks at WebCaskets.com realized there were huge gross margins on products like caskets, so they decided to sell them online. Their prices are about half of what you’d pay at the local funeral parlor, and they’re still making a healthy profit.