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19th March 2001

Ad Industry Embraces New Guidelines for Online Ads

“According to a survey conducted by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in association with the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), advertising industry decision-makers are overwhelmingly supportive of the new voluntary guidelines issued by the IAB for interactive marketing units. An almost unanimous majority of those surveyed (93%) view the new units as more effective than previous guidelines. The enthusiastic support of the new guidelines by top-level agency representatives is underscored by the number of respondents (26%) who have already utilized the new larger units.” Here are the new specs: Interactive Marketing Units.

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19th March 2001

AppleTechs.com

Something new from the Barrett brothers: “Have you ever run into a problem you know you’ve solved in the past, but you couldn’t remember how you’d solved it? Do you have Macintosh technical knowledge you’d like to share with others with jobs like ours? Are you frustrated that there isn’t an online resource with proven, reliable, non-speculative information to help you solve the problems you encounter every day? AppleTechs.com aims to be a repository of solutions — an exchange of resources and knowledge by our peers, categorized, indexed, and searchable.”

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19th March 2001

Dynamic DNS Network Services

“We provide free dynamic/static DNS aliasing services and web redirection services to the net community. The Dynamic DNS service allows you to alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname, allowing your computer to be more easily accessed from various locations on the Internet. We provide this service for free to the Internet community as a whole. The Static DNS is similar to our Dynamic DNS service, in that it allows a hostname to point to your IP. Unlike a Dynamic DNS host, a static host does not have the 30 day idle timeout, and updates take longer to propagate though the DNS system.”

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19th March 2001

Speednames

“With Speednames, customers can digitally search, register and manage their domain names in more than 110 different top-level domains. The service runs in more than 10 European languages with double-byte Asian languages to be launched in the coming months. Apart from helping companies protect their domain names, individuals can also manage their online identity with Speednames multiple services.”

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19th March 2001

The Myth of 800×600

“Developing fixed-size Web pages is a fundamentally flawed practice. Not only does it result in Web pages that remain at a constant size regardless of the user’s browser size, but it fails to take advantage of the medium’s flexibility. Nonetheless, Web site creators continue to develop fixed pages.”

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