What's New on ahref.com (9/13/2000) <http://www.ahref.com/> [to subscribe or unsubscribe, see the bottom of this message] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW CONVENTIONS After a long hiatus, our conference calendar has been updated for the fall season of seminars and conventions. Check it out at: <http://www.ahref.com/careers/calendar/?in.nl> (It's chock-full of convention-al goodness.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW ARTICLES ELSEWHERE Recent news articles and tutorials from other web publications. at The Industry Standard: Fame and the VC Game Sabeer Bhatia, the 31-year-old entrepreneur who sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million, uses his fame as a tool to get venture capitalists interested in his new startip, Arzoo. (9/12/2000) <http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,18310,00.html> at Media.org: Television Eye A look at the parallels between Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television and anti-corporate crusader, and the artists and web workers of today, who are building a world-wide network that is coming under more and more corporate control. (9/11/2000) <http://voice.media.org/essays/tveye.html> at ZDNet: Trading Net Privacy At E-Checkout Recent events indicate that though consumers are concerned about their privacy online, they are quite willing to give their information to be able to buy the products they want. (9/11/2000) <http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2626162,00.html> at The Industry Standard: Internet Workforce Compensation Study 2000 An in-depth look at "compensation, culture and job satisfaction in the Internet workplace." Based on a survey of 2,621 Industry Standard subscribers. (9/11/2000) <http://www.thestandard.com/news/reports/compensation> at The New York Times: Assessing Linking Liability Legal experts weigh in on Judge Lewis A. Kaplan's ruling that the publisher of 2600 remove links to sites publishing DeCSS computer code, while not all other websites need to remove the same links. (9/8/2000) <http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/08/technology/08CYBERLAW.html> at WDVL: Designing Web Sites to be Disability Friendly Advice on using document structure, images, tables, forms, CSS, and XML in a disability-friendly manner. (9/8/2000) <http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Design/Friendly/> at The Chronicle of Higher Education: Welsh Theology Professor Explores Islam on the Internet With a new book and website, lecturer Gary Bunt examines "cyber-Islamic" environments, in which both traditional and non-traditional Muslims communicate and advance their views. (9/6/2000) <http://chronicle.com/free/2000/09/2000090601t.htm> at The Boston Globe: Splashy Flash: So Far, We're Not Impressed With Flash and Shockwave, web designers have brought back slow-loading and useless splash pages to too many sites. (9/6/2000) <http://www.digitalmass.com/columns/internet/0906.html> at MSNBC: Antitrust Enforcers9 Actions on Mergers Chill Wall Street "Antitrust cops" in both the U.S. and Europe are giving investors and corporations pause when they consider mergers and acquisitions, and in some cases stopping deals before they're proposed. (9/6/2000) <http://www.msnbc.com/news/455979.asp?cp1=1> at Web Developers' Journal: Search Engine Promotion - Your Options Explained How to evaluate your site's position at search engines, what to look (and look out for) in site submission services, and where to submit your site. (9/6/2000) <http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/site_promotion/search_engine_ options.html> at ZDNet: Judge Slams MP3.com in Copyright Case "U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ordered San Diego-based MP3.com to pay Universal $25,000 for each compact disc that was unlawfully copied." The total cost is estimated at between $125 million and $250 million. (9/6/2000) <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2624838,00.html> at builder.com: How Web Servers Help Attackers How interactive outbound connections, allowed by weak network security, can compromise your web server. (9/6/2000) <http://www.builder.com/Servers/SecurityIssues/090600/> at WebMonkey: Death of the Websafe Color Palette? A reexamination of the 216-color websafe palette shows that only 22 colors are really safe across a wide range of browsers and color depths; includes advice on coping with the problem. (9/6/2000) <http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html> You can find links to external articles and tutorials at <http://www.ahref.com/index/newarticles.html?in.nl>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW SITES Some more new sites in the Web Index: CodeArena.com Meta-site for 3 client-side scripting websites: Dynamic Drive (dynamicdrive.com), Freewarejava.com, and Website Abstraction (wsabstract.com). <http://www.codearena.com/> FindSounds.com A search engine for sound effects. <http://www.findsounds.com/> FreeBSD Basics Articles on Unix system administration and networking, focusing on FreeBSD; written by Dru Lavigne. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/FreeBSD_Basics> MCPCentral.com - The One-Stop Resource for Microsoft Technologies Technology articles and resources, from a Microsoft-centric perspective: ASP, XML, Visual Basic, SQL, Visual C++, C#, and Win2K. <http://www.mcpcentral.com/> Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration "The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) standard (registry) ... creates a platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses, and integrating business services using the Internet." <http://www.uddi.org/> Webtools - The Tool Shop for Business Web Developers Articles on a variety of web topics - browsers, HTML, XML, CSS, graphics, multimedia, Java, ecommerce, etc. <http://www.webtools.com/> Zend / Articles Technical articles about PHP, sometimes dealing with PHP internal code, generally written by core PHP developers. <http://www.zend.com/zend/art/> You can always see more of the new sites in the Web Index at: <http://www.ahref.com/index/newsites.html?in.nl> ************************************************************* To subscribe or unsubscribe from this newsletter, send email to majordomo@ahref.com with the message SUBSCRIBE AHREF-NEWS or UNSUBSCRIBE AHREF-NEWS or use the web form at <http://www.ahref.com/info/joinlist.html?in.nl>. 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