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book.htm
The search of the synergy site and the structure of knowledge
THE INTERNET and how it develops
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Netscape, Oracle, IBM, SunMicrosystems and Everyone else ( Corel, Novell ) see "Internet technologies are creating an opportunity for new "information utilities," but no one yet knows what they will look like, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of networking firm Novell (NOVL) said in a speech this morning at Summer Internet World.
We are not at the end, but at the beginning of this journey," Schmidt said referring to the evolution of the Web. "We have a name, the Web, but we may not have a destination" CNET NEWS
Interactive Network Dispatcher to be Used in Largest School Internet Project in History
Dispatcher JUMP is the interesting feature see the news for the schools application
Computers for Education (CFE)
has selected IBM to provide every
K+12 school, teacher and student in the United States with a free Internet
Web site. Dubbed the American School Directory project, this project will
provide information and communication for teachers, students, parents, local
communities and families planning a move.
The Far Eastern NetWorks, the Fourth Wave - a new topic
The Rapidly Changing Face Of Computing
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file button. To save hypertext use view, source, edit; select all, and
copy in order to paste text to clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other
editor. You can add what you will, questions and comments, remove what
you think unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other contributions,
announcements, can be sent directly to me.
Any ideas ?
The data on the growth of the Internet is wild. Most
applications are "blue sky" paradigms.
Remember IBM missed the PC and the copy machine because they only
looked at current uses or as a substitution for current use. Copy machines
were looked at as replacements for carbon copies and their marketing people
didn't understand that new technologies generate their own uses and applications.
Not only will existing production and distribution systems change ( to
reduce the middle people ) but new products and services will appear.
Major Points: ( agree or disagree )
The important short-term uses ( 1 to 3 years ) are in the integration
of office products to remote sites and information services. Major applications
in professions such as law, medicine, small and big business will be largely
current applications of information transfer. ( Paper work, files and libraries,
with some powerful file mangers and search engines
use "wiredbrain" ) We are working on
the number of business computers, LAN's, and the growth rates of office
systems.
These numbers should be fairly solid.
Then, world wide, the investment
potential of integrated office packages ( the Virtual Office ) including
home offices.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
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The search of the synergy site and the structure of knowledge
THE INTERNET and how it develops
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Tomorrows story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
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Netscape, Oracle, IBM, SunMicrosystems and Everyone else ( Corel, Novell ) see "Internet technologies are creating an opportunity for new "information utilities," but no one yet knows what they will look like, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of networking firm Novell (NOVL) said in a speech this morning at Summer Internet World.
We are not at the end, but at the beginning of this journey," Schmidt said referring to the evolution of the Web. "We have a name, the Web, but we may not have a destination" CNET NEWS
Interactive Network Dispatcher to be Used in Largest School Internet Project in History
Dispatcher JUMP is the interesting feature see the news for the schools application
Computers for Education (CFE)
has selected IBM to provide every
K+12 school, teacher and student in the United States with a free Internet
Web site. Dubbed the American School Directory project, this project will
provide information and communication for teachers, students, parents, local
communities and families planning a move.
The Far Eastern NetWorks, the Fourth Wave - a new topic
The Rapidly Changing Face Of Computing
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The data on the growth of the Internet is wild. Most
applications are "blue sky" paradigms.
Remember IBM missed the PC and the copy machine because they only
looked at current uses or as a substitution for current use. Copy machines
were looked at as replacements for carbon copies and their marketing people
didn't understand that new technologies generate their own uses and applications.
Not only will existing production and distribution systems change ( to
reduce the middle people ) but new products and services will appear.
Major Points: ( agree or disagree )
The important short-term uses ( 1 to 3 years ) are in the integration
of office products to remote sites and information services. Major applications
in professions such as law, medicine, small and big business will be largely
current applications of information transfer. ( Paper work, files and libraries,
with some powerful file mangers and search engines
use "wiredbrain" ) We are working on
the number of business computers, LAN's, and the growth rates of office
systems.
These numbers should be fairly solid.
Then, world wide, the investment
potential of integrated office packages ( the Virtual Office ) including
home offices.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
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The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
Your Futures Links
THE NOISE on packets.htm for now
Netscape, Oracle, IBM, SunMicrosystems and Everyone else ( Corel, Novell ) see "Internet technologies are creating an opportunity for new "information utilities," but no one yet knows what they will look like, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of networking firm Novell (NOVL) said in a speech this morning at Summer Internet World.
We are not at the end, but at the beginning of this journey," Schmidt said referring to the evolution of the Web. "We have a name, the Web, but we may not have a destination" CNET NEWS
Interactive Network Dispatcher to be Used in Largest School Internet Project in History
Dispatcher JUMP is the interesting feature see the news for the schools application
Computers for Education (CFE)
has selected IBM to provide every
K+12 school, teacher and student in the United States with a free Internet
Web site. Dubbed the American School Directory project, this project will
provide information and communication for teachers, students, parents, local
communities and families planning a move.
The Far Eastern NetWorks, the Fourth Wave - a new topic
The Rapidly Changing Face Of Computing
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DIRECTORY
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Any ideas ?
The data on the growth of the Internet is wild. Most
applications are "blue sky" paradigms.
Remember IBM missed the PC and the copy machine because they only
looked at current uses or as a substitution for current use. Copy machines
were looked at as replacements for carbon copies and their marketing people
didn't understand that new technologies generate their own uses and applications.
Not only will existing production and distribution systems change ( to
reduce the middle people ) but new products and services will appear.
Major Points: ( agree or disagree )
The important short-term uses ( 1 to 3 years ) are in the integration
of office products to remote sites and information services. Major applications
in professions such as law, medicine, small and big business will be largely
current applications of information transfer. ( Paper work, files and libraries,
with some powerful file mangers and search engines
use "wiredbrain" ) We are working on
the number of business computers, LAN's, and the growth rates of office
systems.
These numbers should be fairly solid.
Then, world wide, the investment
potential of integrated office packages ( the Virtual Office ) including
home offices.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
THE NOISE on packets.htm for now
Netscape, Oracle, IBM, SunMicrosystems and Everyone else ( Corel, Novell ) see "Internet technologies are creating an opportunity for new "information utilities," but no one yet knows what they will look like, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of networking firm Novell (NOVL) said in a speech this morning at Summer Internet World.
We are not at the end, but at the beginning of this journey," Schmidt said referring to the evolution of the Web. "We have a name, the Web, but we may not have a destination" CNET NEWS
Interactive Network Dispatcher to be Used in Largest School Internet Project in History
Dispatcher JUMP is the interesting feature see the news for the schools application
Computers for Education (CFE)
has selected IBM to provide every
K+12 school, teacher and student in the United States with a free Internet
Web site. Dubbed the American School Directory project, this project will
provide information and communication for teachers, students, parents, local
communities and families planning a move.
The Far Eastern NetWorks, the Fourth Wave - a new topic
The Rapidly Changing Face Of Computing
GO TO SYNERGY
DIRECTORY
News Excite
Telecommunications
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JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text to file by using the
file button. To save hypertext use view, source, edit; select all, and
copy in order to paste text to clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other
editor. You can add what you will, questions and comments, remove what
you think unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other contributions,
announcements, can be sent directly to me.
Any ideas ?
The data on the growth of the Internet is wild. Most
applications are "blue sky" paradigms.
Remember IBM missed the PC and the copy machine because they only
looked at current uses or as a substitution for current use. Copy machines
were looked at as replacements for carbon copies and their marketing people
didn't understand that new technologies generate their own uses and applications.
Not only will existing production and distribution systems change ( to
reduce the middle people ) but new products and services will appear.
Major Points: ( agree or disagree )
The important short-term uses ( 1 to 3 years ) are in the integration
of office products to remote sites and information services. Major applications
in professions such as law, medicine, small and big business will be largely
current applications of information transfer. ( Paper work, files and libraries,
with some powerful file mangers and search engines
use "wiredbrain" ) We are working on
the number of business computers, LAN's, and the growth rates of office
systems.
These numbers should be fairly solid.
Then, world wide, the investment
potential of integrated office packages ( the Virtual Office ) including
home offices.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
Computers for Education (CFE)
has selected IBM to provide every
K+12 school, teacher and student in the United States with a free Internet
Web site. Dubbed the American School Directory project, this project will
provide information and communication for teachers, students, parents, local
communities and families planning a move.
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Any ideas ?
The data on the growth of the Internet is wild. Most
applications are "blue sky" paradigms.
Remember IBM missed the PC and the copy machine because they only
looked at current uses or as a substitution for current use. Copy machines
were looked at as replacements for carbon copies and their marketing people
didn't understand that new technologies generate their own uses and applications.
Not only will existing production and distribution systems change ( to
reduce the middle people ) but new products and services will appear.
Major Points: ( agree or disagree )
The important short-term uses ( 1 to 3 years ) are in the integration
of office products to remote sites and information services. Major applications
in professions such as law, medicine, small and big business will be largely
current applications of information transfer. ( Paper work, files and libraries,
with some powerful file mangers and search engines
use "wiredbrain" ) We are working on
the number of business computers, LAN's, and the growth rates of office
systems.
These numbers should be fairly solid.
Then, world wide, the investment
potential of integrated office packages ( the Virtual Office ) including
home offices.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
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The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
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The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
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months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
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on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
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MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
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looked at current uses or as a substitution for current use. Copy machines
were looked at as replacements for carbon copies and their marketing people
didn't understand that new technologies generate their own uses and applications.
Not only will existing production and distribution systems change ( to
reduce the middle people ) but new products and services will appear.
Major Points: ( agree or disagree )
The important short-term uses ( 1 to 3 years ) are in the integration
of office products to remote sites and information services. Major applications
in professions such as law, medicine, small and big business will be largely
current applications of information transfer. ( Paper work, files and libraries,
with some powerful file mangers and search engines
use "wiredbrain" ) We are working on
the number of business computers, LAN's, and the growth rates of office
systems.
These numbers should be fairly solid.
Then, world wide, the investment
potential of integrated office packages ( the Virtual Office ) including
home offices.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
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The data on the growth of the Internet is wild. Most
applications are "blue sky" paradigms.
Remember IBM missed the PC and the copy machine because they only
looked at current uses or as a substitution for current use. Copy machines
were looked at as replacements for carbon copies and their marketing people
didn't understand that new technologies generate their own uses and applications.
Not only will existing production and distribution systems change ( to
reduce the middle people ) but new products and services will appear.
Major Points: ( agree or disagree )
The important short-term uses ( 1 to 3 years ) are in the integration
of office products to remote sites and information services. Major applications
in professions such as law, medicine, small and big business will be largely
current applications of information transfer. ( Paper work, files and libraries,
with some powerful file mangers and search engines
use "wiredbrain" ) We are working on
the number of business computers, LAN's, and the growth rates of office
systems.
These numbers should be fairly solid.
Then, world wide, the investment
potential of integrated office packages ( the Virtual Office ) including
home offices.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
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The coming second
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opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
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consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
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In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
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programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
The important short-term uses ( 1 to 3 years ) are in the integration
of office products to remote sites and information services. Major applications
in professions such as law, medicine, small and big business will be largely
current applications of information transfer. ( Paper work, files and libraries,
with some powerful file mangers and search engines
use "wiredbrain" ) We are working on
the number of business computers, LAN's, and the growth rates of office
systems. These numbers should be fairly solid.
Then, world wide, the investment
potential of integrated office packages ( the Virtual Office ) including
home offices.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
There is an interesting feed-back loop here:
The Virtual
office will change the office - big edifices of expensive downtown building
are less needed and people will be more spread out, making them Internet
dependent.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
The second area short and long term are individual users, on-line
services, and products.
The use of I-phone, news, e-mail, web pages etc.
are interesting and changing very quickly.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things
and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies,
but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games,
computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising
is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
The middle term ( 3 to 5 years ) uses are in direct sales, of things and services; banking, insurance, accounting, brokers, travel agencies, but also WalMart, skies, specialty products, office supplies, toys, games, computer software and hardware et al. Catalog technology and advertising is improving very quickly as are coded transfers and security.
The Long term ( 5 to 10 years ) include cable, optic fiber, and laggard
institutions like education and other parts of government, but this could
be much faster than now understood.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
The wireless systems, Internet terminals,
satellite connections (
The Clarke - Motorola global system ) may change
the PC market in fundamental ways.
chart from http://www.training.com/
315/c
h2/ch2_005.htm
Some common statistics - we don't know how good ? Most are Male -70%
Between the Ages of 25 and 55 Most are Computer Literate Computer or Education
Related Occupation - 58% Highly Educated - 70% have a College Degree Average
Salary $68,000 Homeowners - 45% 90% Have Credit Cards
Mathew Grey's
projections of the growth of the web.
The E-market
home page
The Market Research Center
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National Information Superhighway (NIH).
This plan is for a very high-capacity system with links to fiber optic
backbones. It will carry digital data, audio, and video to clients all
on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate highway system brought
vital strength to our economy, one may reason that the NIH will do the
same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts of the world, perhaps
a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many changes occur.
There are some current
technologies developing that shorten the leap to the all-fiber optic future.
Among the choices are Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable,
and microwave transmission.
The telephone companies will most likely provide
ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service over their current copper connections
to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous voice, video or data communication
over one line. With such an increase in bandwidth, a package that offers
television on demand, Internet access, and full telephone service could
be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability to those outside of major metropolitan
areas are the main concerns.Cable television companies are promising Internet
connection to their customers over the coaxial connection. This is a slower
connection than ATM but much faster than current dial-up service over normal
phone lines.
The main concern here is the possible need for incoming and
outgoing cable, as well as certain security problems associated with its
implementation.
Another possible way to connect to the NIH involves wireless microwave
transmission. This new option may hold some possibilities, but it also
poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission
involves line of sight transmission with the tower and tends to be susceptible
to noisy transmission, which further degrades the potential bandwidth of
the connection.
As technology advances, more possibilities may emerge or others may
become better alternatives to the current choices.
The problem concerning
bandwidth is under major consideration and teams of researchers are in
the field tackling the issues. When the bandwidth bottleneck is finally
broken, incredible changes in the way we communicate and entertain will
occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet - Register NOW ! I am sick
and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work and that they
can't work on files over the internet and blah blah blah. So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it.
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. I can tell
you companies are using it and that use is private. I use it every day.
If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit the file in what
ever program I want and save it right back to the location it belongs over
the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can work with any
file on the server at work or any computer connected to it from home just
by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, Access, Word, Excel,
Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it over the internet.
The
point being is it is happening right now and its not going to take Netscape
releasing any crap at all cause it is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! Netscape is still asking for money. That's because
MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat!
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol. NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE
SUITE or what ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone
on the net is smart enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction
with TCP/IP. Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop
UNIX, drop MAc.
You want to do it? Its easy.... forget who you want to interface
with and start interfacing with yourself and bring eveyone else to you.
Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure that server
with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI; Now tell everyone to add
the NetBEUI protocol to their network components and put in as their wins
server your NT's IP number and now you can share Hard drives, print to
each others printers. Dial each others computers and chat direct... work
on files together, EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH
more... as well as accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. using
your MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this.
-- Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
The Microsoft Tech Education meeting this week; http://198.105.232.6:80/isapi/showcase/become_a_member.idc?
is a place to join http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/teched/ or http://98.105.232.6:80/
http://198.105.232.6/isapi/showcase/show/menu.idc?s=2&a=660554213 59881
The first wave of Internet services has passed.
The coming second
wave that exploits new media types and functionality presents tremendous
opportunities and challenges for enterprises seeking to share information
within their organization and outside of it. This session is designed to
provide Technology Planners with an in-depth understanding of issues to
consider when implementing new, or upgrading existing, Internet services.
Topics addressed will include: building a robust Internet infrastructure,
interactive Web sites, integrating the Internet with internal systems,
developing Internet-aware applications, and deployment and maintenance
considerations.
This session provides detailed information for deploying SNA Server
and client applications in customer networks or an internetworked LAN/WAN
such as the Internet. Topics include use of centralized, branch-based or
distributed gateway deployment models of SNA Servers, dealing with security
and firewall issues, how to plan for both server and network capacity,
how to optimize for maximum response time and throughput, and what are
the performance and memory usage considerations for SNA Server both in
standalone and "BackOffice" server modes.
In this seminar we demonstrate how to create powerful and compelling
applications using such technologies as the World Wide Web and HTML, database
publishing, CGI scripts with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic Windows Sockets
programs. A key theme is that Microsoft Office developers using tools such
as Microsoft Access and Visual Basic can be full players in the Internet
applications game -- no C or Perl programming is necessary! Complete source-code
samples will be provided, with a focus on re-usable code you can use to
jump-start your own internal development efforts.
This session focuses on how a developer can customize the Internet
Server with client-server back-ends. We will explore how the developer
can connect information from SQL Server 6+ into the Internet Server's Web
pages. Several real world examples will be drilled down into, that demonstrate
the power of Internet database access will be explored.
In this session, we will address how BackOffice can be added to an
Internet site to enhance the functionality and create a more compelling
site for visitors. With the integration of servers like the Internet Information
Server, SQL Server, Exchange and Windows NT Server, an Internet site can
become more powerful and useful as an information source for users.
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.comeaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend.. on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
RE: Lesson One:
The Internet on the Internet:
This is an individualized class. Each student will be coached depending
on their needs and interests. When we can, we will form groups that can
help each other.
The content includes any and all sources that are helpful.
I don't even pretend to know-it-all, and it all is in the constant state
of change. We try to stay current.
The class involves earning 100 points
= A, 80+100 = B, and over 50 = C, with no clear time limits ( 6 weeks to
6 months).
There will be 12 units each worth up to 8 points. ( point is
about 1 hour of successful work ). Up to 30 points can be earned in projects
and bonus activities.
I am very interested in suggestions - past level III we have to make
it up as we go along - either risky or an adventure depending on your attitude.
LEVEL I Students: Not really connected to the web.
They have E- mail
but limited Internet access. Lesson one involves getting connected at the
lowest cost and highest quality in their area. Right now I recommend SPRY
( With or without CompuServe), or AT & T. (I will be testing AT &
T this week). Once connected they need a browser, FTP, Chat, and a few
other tools. (
The Windows 95 issue still is hanging...)
LEVEL II Students: Have Internet connections, ( this is lesson 2
for Level I students ) and are ready to set up a site and a home page.
This unit involves HTML editor and making your own home page which is placed
on our site. ( also anything missing from Level I above ).
The FTP enables
students to directly access their site and up-load their work.
LEVEL III Students: Have experienced web activities, have a first
class connection, and are interested in interactive systems. We start with
E-mail groups, ( replaces listservers ), then open web pages, as first.htm
is an example. Students download the page, edit and add comments then up
load the new material. ( This is lesson 3 for the Level I students, and
Lesson 2 for Level II students)
LEVEL IV Research and utilization of the Internet. We will develop
several research projects involving the area of interest of the students
- How to fully utilize Internet resources - listservers, newgroups, search
engines, conferences, I-phone, CuSeeMe, depending on the subject field,
education, business, science, applications et al.
LEVEL V: Universal contacts - we will have a WINS peer-to-peer system
in beta format ( sometime soon ).. We will set up a virtual network among
the students and beta testers.
LEVEL VI: Web editors, servers, .. Now for a server of your own..
We will have our own location ( Domain in May, Maybe ) and do more in advanced
Webmaster's skills. I need outside help for this, or I will learn along
with the rest of you - learning and doing.
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MS and the
INTERNET
Talk about cloudy vision.
A vision needs to be clear in order for others to understand. Not the
technological details but the living reality in peoples lives.
What is the VISION
for the INTERNET and how did Microsoft miss it - do they now get it
?
How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.com breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
See documents register.txt on
/ and at the end of this file
RE: Follow the Money Trail (
The Gold Rush two )
By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users
of the Internet, world wide.
They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes;
the technological, and social elite.
They will run their office systems,
( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal
and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies
( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services
(American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity
), medical information, legal research, ( West Publishing ), consumer products,
( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs
), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village
Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.
The Virtual OFFICE
will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization
like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials,
students will all interact in cyberspace.
Maybe 10% of all sales or 2-3 trillion dollars of business ( in current
dollars ) will be web based including most computer systems and software,
themselves.
The access to this market is by way of office suite software
that does the standard functions on the PC and Servers connected into high
quality networks. ( ATT, MCI, Sprint etc)
The average office machine and 30% of home systems will have a news
service, e-mail, library search, reference services, and catalog sales
systems.
The common Office suites, which can now handle columns, graphics,
type faces, charts, and data, will work with sound, ( real radio ) color,
and all the jazz of web pages.
They will LINK - ( hyperlinks and file managers
) this is the heart of the communications revolution.
Our community college just spent millions on new computers, LAN's
( Local Area Networks ) and Microsoft's Windows 95 and Office as an installed
base, and it is already obsolete.
The colleges teaches Word Perfect which
has 80% of the current users, but 80% of new systems use MS Office. Office
suites ( Word processing, data base, presentations, spread sheets ) WERE
the heart of the PC revolution.
These programs handle a wide variety of
text formats BUT not hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP, hypertext, HTM.
( H1, H2, H3 so far). Can anyone make MS office 7.0 work on the Internet
except MS itself ?
The college should be teaching for the future: Internet
suites but doesn't understand much about the Internet itself. It all is
happening too fast for HIGHER EDUCATION to keep up.
Therefore the need
for Global Village Schools.
If MS office worked right there would be a SMOOTH interface to the
Internet.
The reason for Windows 95, ( NT based ) was to make MS office
7.0 work with Internet networks. IT DOESN'T. This e- mail should appear
as hypertext and could include graphics ( as attachments ) and real links
to web pages. If your are reading this in the Netscape Gold 2.0 mailer:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/newbie.htm is a live link. You can Click on it
with your mouse and the web page will appear.
The advantages of working
with HTM as the standard, for all office application, are very clear. If
MS can't make it work NETSCAPE and Sun Microsystems "Hot Java" will replace
MS office with Netscape office. It maybe easier for Netscape to add office
products than MS to make it's office connect.
The issue of the on-line
services is not important. You build the programs and THEY will come.
HTM has links to anywhere, and is a file management system. Some
of the managers used in the Internet suites ( recommended for testing on
the newbie.htm page with auto pilots ) have some of this capacity.
The
full integration of data, text, references, e- mail, could make Netscape
THE new office product and replace MS and WP. (along with full integration
of FTP (file transfer), chat, conference, I-phone, CuSeeMe, sound, radio,
and other enhancements).
The REAL COMMUNICATIONS revolution is the smooth exchange from Office
Suites to the Internet. Windows 95 is shipping 5 million units a month
on new machines, and 1/2 million as upgrades. 60 million units a year on
a base of ?? 300 million or 20% new and replacement units ( where do all
the old machines go ?) Only 10% of these 300 million (World wide) units
have Internet connections - or 30 million. (Many stations have multiple
users, like the 1 million students on line). By the end of next year (1997)
maybe 400 million units with 20% Internet connections = 80 million Internet
users and by - 1998 500 million units with 30% connected makes 150 million
people on the web. In 1999-2000 the market reaches maturity at 600 - a
billion units with 35 to 50 % connections ( using cable, wireless, high
bandwidth systems) or from 200 million to 1/2 billion users world wide
--
In any new technology the social and economic impact and uses can
not be predicted in advance. IBM in the 1970 saw only a small market for
PC, and thought the copy machine only replaced carbon copies.
The full
scale of uses have not been invented yet.
The system creates it's own SYNERGY
and open market unlike anything that has happened before.
MY VISION on the Synergy Net is DIRECT CONNECTIONS. From the days of
tribal society, when everyone knew everyone in a complex web of social
interactions and relationships ( I think as a species we are programmed
to become human in troops of less than 80 members in our biological natural
social world ), since the industrial revolution, we have built more and
more un-natural INSTITUTIONS with complex bureaucratic structures that
make people into "roles" and "positions" and "functions".
The big organizations vs. the Village. NOW THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, the possibility
of communities and activities, peer-to-peer, person-to-person, any where
to anywhere. Sure, current activities, business communications, records,
entertainment, publishing, advertising, news, education will all have the
possibility to do things differently. That is one issue.
The really interesting
issue is what is really new ?
I think the idea of the Synergy Network is really new. Something different
that could not be done before. A truly voluntary, open, social communications
system. People will begin to contribute and become involved.
They will
become members of a true social group.
YES - the FTP works see documents replybt.txt
and create a file in index page called /psychology then upload your documents
there. Its not hard.
RE: Creating Innovation on the Internet
- Register NOW !
What do you think. How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?
MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation
on the Internet. Registrar now by E-mail to pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comate breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the
synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six
months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill
base in Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software
= cost of class.
The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID
innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio
on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will
depend..on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..
Gates talks about the Internet as a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place. Fundamentally, when you have a gold rush atmosphere, people
suspend disbelief. If somebody says hey, I can do something on the Internet,
no matter what it is people are fairly open minded they want to invest,
start a new company, do an IPO.
I think the bottom line is that any company (or individual) who has
a PCs and companies that have connected them together into LAN's will benefit
immensely from intergration into the Internet.
They get a lot more leverage,
out of that huge investment by buying a little bit of extra software and
coming up with the internal standards for how to present these pages, data,
charts, publications, training, resource inventories, mail, conferences,
et al within a common world wide system.
The promise of the PCs and the information "society" will be at your
fingertips.
The information age is now coming true by the blending of the
productivity technology of office systems, data bases, and services within
the Internet technology.
The Internet is the first stage for companies.
There they don't need
to worry about bandwidth they don't need to really do anything but pull
in new software. But the long-term potential is not only to share information
inside the companies but to reach outside and that's this electronic merchandising
and electronic commerce. Microsoft is working on a number of initiatives
there, media server in fact we announced a large partnership with WalMart
as a lead -- we asked Pierre De Vries to come out and show us an example
what do we think shopping looked like a year from now.
Building Internet Applications from the Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 "http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html
Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996 "/htdosc/bill-g.htm", copied
to this site http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
MR. GATES: Well good morning. It's super to be here and see the incredible
enthusiasm that's builtup around the Internet and using that together with
Windows. Today we have not only the group here in San Francisco, but an
even larger group that's watching in theaters over 50 theaters around the
country and I want to welcome them to the professional developers conference.
These conferences have really been major milestones in the history
of the software business. Going all the way back to the original battle
of character mode interface versus graphical interface.
But, today's topic I think is even more exciting than any of those
because today what we're talking about is something that -- that's not
just about the software industry, it's about the whole way the world communicates.
Communication for business, communication for learning to socialize and
entertain each other.
The Internet phenomena is truly incredible. What happens when you
will get to critical mass and you get the kind of positive feed back that
we've seen only a few other times in this business is hard to exaggerate
what the impact of that is. ... Part of that is that the Internet is in
a sense its own distribution system. News about the Internet, new Internet
software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications is. It's
all these wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're going to use as the foundation for this new world.
Now, I've talked about the Internet as almost a gold rush.
These
high levels of investment are very, very positive for getting this business
going. In fact, as I've gone around the world over the last month I've
gone to some unusual places I was in Poland, Argentina, all over and I
wondered when I went to those countries, what the level of interest in
this phenomena would be. Is it just confined to the United States and it's
certainly not. If anything, those countries are in their governments or
even more anxious about this because they worry about being left behind...
I have met with many heads of state who are just fascinated with the idea
of what should they do to foster the Internet phenomenon in their country
and the make sure that their human resources are able to reach out to world
markets to use this amazing capability.
So, it's happening and really nothing's going to hold it back. One
of the great issues that's coming up is that because the Internet is so
fantastic, it should be broadly available. So, kids in schools, people
coming into libraries, urban or rural, richer or poorer, getting that acceptability
will become a priority for society the same way making books available
did which led to the library system and focus to literacy. That may take
some time, particularly as you go around the world. That's another thing
I think all of us if faster and be involved in this.
A final problem is bandwidth. Some of the scenarios require a lot
more bandwidth than the narrow band dial up.
The question is how do we
move to the next level? With the dial up modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) we will be able to get simultaneous
voice and I think that's a huge step forward. In fact, I'm going to show
some scenarios that involves the use of voice that I think are very, very
mainstream. So, there's one more thing to do there in that narrow band
world. But the big question is how quickly can we get people up to midband,
up to a level of performance of 5 to 11 times faster where /images are incredibly
fast, audio is working and you can start to use video data types.
The phone
companies and cable companies and ideally, they both do a good job so we
can see vigorous price and investment competition for them to get in and
provide those connections.
The Holy Grail, of course is .. lots of density and affluence in
Stockholm, what they've done with optic fiber in Hong Kong or Singapore,
there will be urban access to broad band within the next couple of years.
What we want to do is have everything that comes up on the screen
use the browser, the browser will be at the center of the system. What
used to be the user, the central part of Windows that does dialogs, that
will be our HTML engine. So, extended HTML will be everywhere. Forms packages,
dialogs our help system won't be a separate .exe now.
The editor that we
have built into Windows will help you compose the HTML form that's the
successor. By doing that, the browser is always in the working set.
We want to have the unification of interface take place not only
for directories and pages which you've already seen, but also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse links,
there's no reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers that you should see any difference there at all. That
synthesis is very important for providing ease of use.
If you imagine today a medium size business wants to set up a server
they have to think about so many things what's a relational database, what's
a massaging package, what's a Web server what's an administrative tool.
All of those they have to buy separately, learn separately, install separately
and understanding what their various roles are and how to work with those.
It's way too complicated.
We have to have a server that's turn key, you buy it for your business
and massaging customer database management, telephone integration, being
able to public catalogs, all of that including electronic commerce support
is simply built in and you don't go out and learn what's in side of all
those things paragraph paragraph is software industry and Microsoft in
particular has a lot of my gracious work to do with these pieces in order
to make it turnkey for every business in the world to go out and buy a
box and put out their products and be in business on the Web.
The breadth
of opportunities here on the Internet is pretty incredible.
Now, let's take that concept of a meeting lobby and consider how
could that be used? Say you want to sit down and do a training session.
Say you want to sit down and just socialize. Say you want to get together
to discuss a product. Today people use chat-type interfaces but they're
not very visual you have to type in all the commands.
There's no reason
it should have to be that way. One of the companies that's been tackling
this challenge of creating great meeting spaces is on life. I'd like to
ask Henry Nash to show us some of the progress that they've made in not
only creating a visual way of getting together but bringing audio into
the experience in a fantastic way. This is not just for entertainment it
can be used for a lot of great business scenarios as well.
MR. NASH: I know you're going to have more people come and join the
party in cyberspace we'll take the volume down and watch you play. We'll
talk about what this means for the service side of the Internet and so
fourth. Basically what you're seeing here is an HTTP server and an NT box
running the voice server. This is the way using NT we can turn information
sites out on the Internet into community sites.
The online traveler let's
you travel the Internet visit these communities and Interact with the people
once you meet them and exchange e-mail and so fourth. It's turning the Internet
into communicating rather than just information.
What kind of markets are you looking at here? I suppose a company
can get together and do various sessions here.
MR. NASH: Especially for 14.4 and 24 K modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. People on the road
can dial in, entertainment we see here, going online and meeting people.
There are other calls arriving, so, there are a whole range of applications.
I think it's not just about an individual technology it's fundamentally
changing the way people community on the Internet.
Another big thing everybody is talking about now is the Internet.
Certainly, over the next couple of years it's opportunity for all
of us. Companies have made huge investments in PCs and networks to let
people run productivity and applications.
The investment they made there
is 90 percent of what they need to do great information sharing. Some companies
are there -- they have server names you know certain file names-- even
in a technology company that's a little too hard for people to go out and
find. So it's been very interesting as we've started to take Internet technology
and use that internally at Microsoft to take the information that we've
always had up on our servers but possibly in a way that's easier to get
to our user has gone up by a factor of 5.
So, here I have an e-mail and what this is just a high-level summary
of what's gone on. You'll see I have an embedded Excel sheet here.
I can get at a high level any way a really quick snapshot of what's
going on. Now, if that's not enough for me, I have a link to our finance
home page. I can get right to the supporting content.
Let's go ahead and go to the finance home page and that's going to
bring up the browser. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is
that this is really the first time we've been able to consolidate and centralize
all of this information in one place. This is really in its infant stages
right now. When you think about some of the things you've seen earlier
this week, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think this will be
a starting point for all of our finance content not just financial statements
but what I call our dynamic contents. Our query tools, even an SAP client,
you'll come to one place to get there as a finance person.
I've gone from a high-level financial statement to something more
detailed. With some of the advances in the browser what this allows me
to do is I can go back to where I started by using the navigation tools.
I Click on this, it's going to ask me if I want to save the changes, I
don't want to. Now I'm back in the browser. Now, the really important thing
about that for me is that as a user, my whole experience is the browser
it's not these different applications popping up and me having to track
those and where is which document.
My experience is really just navigating and comprehending the different
content.
Certainly there's room for lots of new applications and there's room
for new versions of existing applications. For us, that means going back
and looking at everything like office and saying how can it be better in
this environment. I'd also say that beyond the product business, there
will be far more demand for people who understand the Internet and setting
up software applications on it than will be available world wide for at
least the next decade. We're sitting at the center point and companies
who have that service aspect will be doing extremely well just like the
product companies.
Now the content business will always be 100 times more fragmented
than say software we see a good opportunity, getting out there and being
a pioneer and using this technology will help us to do better on the other
pieces and some cases actually show the way.
I think it's critical to keep in mind that everything is improving
here. You can't think of the PC itself as static.
The PC we knew 5 years
ago, I don't think any of us would be very satisfied with.
The pace of innovation in this is faster today than in the past.
Whether it's the size of storage, it's going to be hard to buy a PC with
less than a gig byte a year from now. Even a $900 PC. Processors, Intel
and its competitors are doing, products like Pentium Pro. That's a huge
step forward, we're certainly in partnership with Intel building compilers
building extensions for MMX which is their multimedia instructions which
I think is a great initiative by Intel. I believe that a lot of PCs will
have smart card readers.
Part of the security problem will involve smart cards.
MR. Steve Chase of AOL. For example Bill mentioned earlier people
still have 144 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and we're slowly moving to 288. Some of the things
we do with impression and caching help accomplish that.
The most important
reason we think eve had the success we've had is we've had a strategy of
working with lots of partners and building a tapestry of alliances and
working together with a lot of companies in trying to build this medium.
In the last few days we announced a number of alliances particularly technology
alliance in the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun.
There's been a lot of confusion about what we've done because of
so many announcements.
The opportunity is to partner with companies and figure out a way
to reach that mainstream audience. It's not just partnering with big companies
it's also about reaching out to lots of creative minds and entrepreneurs
to figure out their innovation. I am pleased today to announce a new program
an expansion of our green house efforts to include software developers.
A year ago we launched a content green house and over the past we're he
funded dozens of start ups trying to find innovation in this new medium
and a few months ago we included software green house for AOL -- today
we're supporting Internet developers. We want to talk to you to provide
capital and commit our distribution and marketing to take their ideas to
5 million people. It's going to be the mix of funding and distribution
that's going to unlock the power of this new medium. Sticking the out on
the Internet and hopefully people will find it will not -- get plugged
into large audiences such as we have in AOL.
We want to create a new medium to reach millions of new people and
take the concept of these online services to a mainstream audience. We're
look forward to working with technology partners such as Microsoft and
hopefully many of you to make this new medium all it can be. Thank you.
MR. GATES: One key point that Steve made there is the growth opportunity
in front of us. Although every day we're out there surfing most of the
people aren't. It's a opportunity to bring people in and what we're doing
with AOL will foster that in a major way.
A few key points. This should be a very up beat industry.
The Internet
is an amazing opportunity for great software. It will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thank you walk away
from this conference with is it should be we're hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive connotations that implies. Finally, this communications
revolution, adds we're swept up in the day to day activity here, it's easy
to forget what this can mean broadly and it is fun from time to time to
go out to schools and see kids starting to use this or to go to medical
researchers and find out how it's facilitating their work to cure diseases
and see all the amazing ways that this is pulling together. So, there is
no better business than the software business and it's great to have you
all here.
From: Kevin J. Hazen Sent: Sunday, March 24, 1996 11:49 PM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject: so want to be universal huh? Kevin
VISIT: http://www.wiredbrain.net/ first.htm for the next FAD in business,
education and training - psychology and politics
I am sick and tired of all this complaining that MS office does work
and that they can't work on files over the Internet and blah blah blah.
So here it is!
Stop complaining about it and do something about it. >OK how ?
The ability to use MS OFFICE and practically any program to work
with files on the net is already there. You just don't have the right places
to do it with. Unfortunately it's there but you can't use it. >So now you
tell me ?
I can tell you companies are using it and that use is private. I
use it every day. If I want to manipulate files on the server I just edit
the file in what ever program I want and save it right back to the location
it belongs over the net; no FTP, no working with my drive, nothing. I can
work with any file on the server at work or any computer connected to it
from home just by connecting to the net. I could work with anything, IPX
Access, Word, Excel, Word Perfect,... You name it.. I can work with it
over the Internet.
The point being is it is happening right now and it's
not going to take Netscape releasing any (sic) new stuff at all cause it
is happening right now!
The reason: MICROSOFT!
Regardless of your comments, their not going anywhere and Netscape
is by far not going to put them out of business. MS is handing out their
web browser for free! (can my system manage it?) Netscape is still asking
for money. That's because MS can afford to and can do this for a long time.
Your missing the boat! (OH ? I remember last year I felt the same
way about ppp-slip connections and mosaic was very difficult and expensive
- a connection was up to $29,000 now it's free with Windows 95)
There exist in Win95 and NT a thing called NetBEUI. Ever heard of
it? I've seen it when I set up Networks in the control panel...have it
set as over ride on IPX/SPX what ever that is ( network LANs systems ?)
Its a nice little protocol Microsoft uses that is very flexible and
handles all windows networking.
The key is stacking this protocol on top
of a TCP/IP protocol.
NOW YOUR NETWORKING and NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR OFFICE SUITE or what
ever else you care to do.
The draw back? Well not everyone on the net is smart ( do you mean
me?) enough to configure Netbuei and use it in conjunction with TCP/IP.
Another thing is its only for MS operating systems so drop UNIX, drop MAc.
>WELL...How about VIRTUAL OFFICE ??? That was the idea from last
summer and the X-files ? Let's do it - the Gold Rush is on... raise $100,000
and have a consumer school, small office set up - sell it over the web
-
You want to do it? Its easy.... ( NOW you tell me) forget who you
want to interface with and start interfacing with yourself and bring everyone
else to you. Set up a site with NT server with a perm IP address, configure
that server with TCP/IP and Wins resolution with NetBEUI;
I need to add the MS server-- right and set up a web site - I've
done that with Web Magic and sort of with Front Page ?
Now tell everyone to add the NetBEUI protocol to their network components
and put in as their wins server your NT's IP number and now you can share
Hard drives, print to each others printers.
I can't get a fixed IP from SPRY - maybe from ATT is I go that way
?
Dial each others computers and chat direct... work on files together,
EVEN RUN SOFTWARE OFF ANOTHER MACHINE! and MUCH MUCH more... as well as
accomplishing what you keep saying is a failure.. ( doing what I am doing,
if you do what you keep doing you keep getting what you get ) using your
MS OFFICE software (or any software) to work with on the net.
This I offer you.... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.... and don't
forget... it's Bill Gate's idea and it does work. I am living proof.
The answer to all your wants needs and etc. Dr. Pflaum is this. GO
FOR IT !!!!! --
Kevin
Interesting site of the week: http://www.pointcast.com/
download2.qdeck.com wtdemo+1.exe, wtdemo-2.exe, and wtdemo-3.exe for
web talk - http://compass.quarterdeck.com/ and lets give it a try also
check out http://volusia.com/index.htm the local guide
A good place for Free Software http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html
Read this on the future of the Internet - http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm
BILL
GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW
Bill Gates in his new book "
The Road Ahead" talks about the reduction
the "middle man/woman". Travel services, bookstores (Media Play), all kinds
of retail trade from Banking to Printing will have competition from the
NET.
We are mostly middle people. Now we can go into being a direct provider.
In education the establishment and bureaucracy are the place holders. What
can happen if the providers (teachers) do direct services (to student)
at 50% of the cost. It should be an alternative. SYNERGY net asks the question:
"Can a old mind learn new technology, and become a direct provider of educational
services?"
The factory (anywhere) can do direct sales without a distributor
or stores, cutting out 50% of the cost of goods. Buy your toys, electronics,
computers, from the electronic mall and save 25% to 50% ? Delivered next
day via express service as Netscape just did for me. Auto's, houses, resorts,
airlines, publishers, movies, other media such as newspapers and magazines,
(with click-able advertisements that deliver the product) goods and services
provided directly from the provider to the consumer.
Gates book can be updated and a new version on line, with the links
that come with the CD. Netscape's power index services now provides update
services to a current list of resources on a real living World Wide WEB.
?
RE: LOCATION, TRAFFIC, PRODUCT:
The Market on the INTERNET
You can build your site anywhere. BUT..a location (not in geographic
terms but in quality of the connection and hardware) like Volant (Turnpike)
or www.quicklink.com offers a 24 hour, seven day a week, high quality connection.
There are fewer busy singles ( the net says not found when busy ) and maybe
less trouble.
The process of FTP to remote connection is not difficult.
I am in Florida, Synergy is in California. TRAFFIC, most people want visitors,
the new ALTAVISTA by Digital changes the whole pattern of traffic on the
net. BEFORE, this month you could registrar your site with Yahoo, Excite,
Postmaster, Submit-it, and wait (up to a month) to see if and how you were
listed. Now ALTAVISTA sweeps 20 billion words from 20 million web pages,
files, sorts and checks the files so it can deliver results in 10 seconds.
The many subjects and objects on SYNERGY means it shows up often.. try
Pflaum (p) synergy, cooperative, interactive, learning, education, reform,
policy, business, government et al and we will appear. This generates traffic.
When people come to visit it has to be interesting and complex.. some death.
Different strokes for different folks, a open air market, a fair, a circus,
busy - colorful, active, fun - strange, inside the MALL.. And they have
to be able to find their way around without trouble. Now while they are
here will the BUY something ? Learn something ? Do something -join in the
activity? UNTIL last month, the web was a network of LINKS.. my links to
your links. Most homepages are links to other pages. Netscape's Smart Marks
and the "suites" are sold on their bookmarks and guides to the net. All
this is unnecessary this month because of ALTAVISTA. You can find the most
current connection is seconds and all most all of them work. My site is
cluttered with internal and external connections, 1000's of them. Now I
need a new cleaner system.
There is no reason to ask "where do I find folk
tales from Finland" go look on ALTAVISTA - and the long list of search
engines on http://www.ionet.net/
~rowe/aaa1.html search engines
use "wiredbrain", Virtual Tourist, Map, Autopilot, etc.
Is a good place to start.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search
(MSN home page http://www.msn.com)
RE: NOW LISTEN: Internet Connections
It is happening fast. Everyone is a little confused. Here is my understanding
of what is going on the Internet at the moment. If you really want Internet
service the way to go is an unlimited account for $20.00 with a local dial
up at 14.4 or 28.8. SPRY does it and so do many of the 2000 local providers.
(http://thelist.com)
There is a vast array of prices many of them way out
of line.
There are $9.00 fees for limited service and a hour charge, sometimes
quite high, $2.00 an hour. (GNN, MCI are still too expensive) ATT will
offer 5 free hours for current long distance users and the $20.00 unlimited.
YOU WANT a direct TCP/IP - PPP, Windows 95, NT 3.5 Internet connection
uses a WINDSOCK in Windows 95 that works on all applications, it is the
standard. ( FTP, Chat, Newsgroups, Mail, Browsers, (up to 4 or more at
a time so you don't have to sit there), CuSeeMe, Phone, Real Radio, )
The
junk that comes with most on line providers doesn't work. You need Windows
95 rather that 3.11 with Trumpet or other Winsocks that give you grief
(except for the limited uses of the on line service). You need to connect
directly with Windows 95 dial up, maybe needs a script or terminal pop-up
after dialing, for user and password.
You do NOT want ANY of the on-line services as a provider. You want
a direct connection. I can connect to Compuserve and MicroSoft Network
from the TCP/IP connection, AOL will not be far behind, rather than dial
up the on-line service, I dial a general provider and connect within the
WEB to any service free or paid.
The idea is you want to have a phone service
that lets you call anywhere. You don't want one that requires you to call
only the home office and try to connect to other services from there.
The
door ways to services will be from the net not the other way around, from
a specific service.
The providers use a variety of "server software" some of which is
out of date. Netscape and NT (UNIX) servers work, many local providers
have problems with busy phones, down time or poor connections to the Internet.
(
They need a high quality line out to the world).
The on-line services
can never match a direct connection. If you have experience with them you
know what I mean.
The phone companies have a clear advantage in quality
of service. When you pick up the phone and dial a number it almost always
works. Try that in Moscow, St Thomas or Mexico or on AOL web browser.
Microsoft, America on line, Compuserve are in a scramble and reorganizing
fast. (I forgot Prodigy because they are out of it, as of now.) MS said
in December it was NOT going to have separate Internet units, now it just
announced a complete reorganization of it's basic service delivery systems
and a deal with America- on-Line. Web browsers are getting very powerful
and integrate mail, Newsgroups, sound, and action -
The on-line services
have no hope of keeping up. SEE the Newbie page, Point PCN service, for
a really active pages.
The interface between MS Office and the web is anything but smooth,
mostly it doesn't work at all.
They are working on it. Windows 95 upgrade
and Word 7 Internet assistant will work this year so you can browse, edit
and use Internet services in a complete package. I don't know if Word Perfect,
Novell can catch up.
The game is so fast that once behind, it's almost
impossible to get on the learning curve. Even MS is having a fit.
The powerful idea is a universal file manager and search engine,
so can be on the C:/ drive, on the LAN, or on a web site, on another computer,
or from a on-line service, ( stock information, libraries, regulations,
government services, directories, yellow pages, contacts of all kinds-
Standards and Poors, corporate reports ) and all used by MS Office, with
graphics, slide shows and auto-visual presentations, phone, chat, really
powerful stuff. MS has it working internally and with a few big users but
not as a consumer product.
Why MSN haven't made a communications deal with ATT, Sprint, MCI
or other telephone company is beyond me.
They have the NT server - Windows
95 interface based on the same operating system. That's the core of the
idea and where the mega-bucks are to be made. But as we said, it's all
going very fast indeed.
You, or anyone anywhere, can provide firms or individuals with accounting,
banking and tax, travel, sales, mailing, advertising, printing, graphics,
form processing, educational and training, program up grades, and all kinds
of services not invented yet with a smooth interface to MS Office.
The
person hits the travel icon and there you are ready to book their trip,
or fix their accounts, or process their paper work - from direct access
to their files, and you maybe in India or Chicago.
chart from http://www.training.com/