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10th November 1999

uReach.com

Free voicemail, email, fax, address book, file storage … and 800 number from the phone or Web! Dang!

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10th November 1999

Kaiju Big Battel!

These guys dress up in costumes and fight and videotape it and all things considered, it just looks crazy.

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10th November 1999

draw with me

Illustrator Mark Martin invites others to draw with him. You download an image and finish it yourself and he posts it on his site. The current activity ended 31 Oct 1999 but he plans to have more. Even Scott McCloud contributed last time.

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10th November 1999

Web searching tutorial

A Power Reporting tutorial on search strategy and syntax. This breaks it down pretty well using AltaVista as an example.

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10th November 1999

The Official U.S. Time site

More interesting than it sounds. Nice time links page.

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10th November 1999

The Eggman’s Guidelines for a Successful Website

“I have watched many companies lose the edge because their Internet presence has suffered ‘Death by Committee.’ There must be a clear chain of command, with the ultimate go/no-go authority resting with a single individual, or at the most, two persons. These two persons are The Systems Administrator and The Webmaster.” …This looks like a good checklist of things to keep in mind when beginning a Web presence. The Eggman has some other nice stuff on his site, including this copyright law info for Webmasters. Check it out.

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