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Reply-To: "Steve Bennett" <steve@euronet.nl>
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September 1994
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Volume 1 Number 1
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Managing Editor: Steve Bennett
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steve@euronet.nl
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Publisher: innovation@euronet.nl
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Information Innovation
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Amsterdam and New York
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(C)1994 INFORMATION INNOVATION
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All rights reserved. All trademarks, and other intellectual property rights are
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acknowledged. No part of this email may be forwarded, copied, faxed or otherwise
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reproduced without the prior written permission of Information Innovation.
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Abstracts may be taken provided full details of the source are included.
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Contents of This Issue
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New Sites
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This Months Top Ten Sites and Users
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Breaking News on the Web
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Under the Microscope... Reuters New Media on the Web
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This Months Interview... QuoteCom
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The Detectives Guide to... Financial Information
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How to use... a Web Robot
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Getting Plugged in... Your Guide to WWW Software
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Introduction to The Web Word
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The Web Word is a service for people and organisations with a professional
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interest in the worlds fastest growing information system - the World Wide Web.
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The WWW is expanding and developing so fast (it is doubling in popularity every
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4 months) that no one can keep up with the latest developments. That is where
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The Web Word comes in!
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The Web Word is published 10 times a year with a special bonus issue in January
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of each year. It will keep you informed of:
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- the latest services available on the WWW and
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other interesting Internet services,
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- a Top Ten list of Web sites and Web Users,
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- Important, up to date news about the Web,
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- publish interviews with prominent WWW
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personalities (This months interview is with
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QuoteComs Chris Cooper),
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- look in depth at innovative WWW services
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(This month its Reuters New Media),
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- Keep you up to date on the latest WWW
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software releases
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The Web Word is available to subscribers in 3 forms:
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1. A standard text email (such as this)
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2. A html document ready for Web use (just load it into your
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Mosaic client and go.
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3. A searchable Web server of html documents incorporated into
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our information bases on management and technology.
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You choose what service you want.
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The Web Word will live and die on its usefulness to you, the Web community. As
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such we want and appreciate any feedback you can give us to improve ourselves.
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Help us please. Send mail to webinfo@euronet.nl
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The Web Word is not just an email service. Within the next few weeks Information
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Innovation will be going live with a full Web server containing the Internets
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largest repository of information for the manager, technologist, and finance
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professional. Information bases already constructed for this service include:
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The Management Guide
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A guide for managers in the information age. The Guide consists of 22 parts,
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each concentrating on a particular technology or issue facing managers. Topics
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range from Artificial Intelligence and Telecommunications to Finance and
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Marketing. Each part contains references to additional valuable information,
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including CD ROMs, conferences, magazines, articles and books. Hundreds of
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illustrations are used. This is the Internets first professional encyclopaedia
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of Management and technology.
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The Hypergraphic Matrix
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-----------------------
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Get lost in a hypergraphic matrix of hundreds of graphics discussing the
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interrelationships between technology, change, business functions and specific
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industries.
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Dictionary
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The largest Internet dictionary on management and technology.
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The Delphi Oracle
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-----------------
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A comprehensive guide to the latest management ideas and issues. Over 500
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articles and books have been read, analysed, rated and catalogued from all the
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major management and technology journals.
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The Web Word
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An information service about the Web. It includes a regular newsletter (you are
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reading the email version now) and databases about Web resources, news,
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interviews with Web personalities and, of course, a comprehensive guide to
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sites. This will include all of The Web Word information plus much more.
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Web Bibliography
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----------------
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A guide to the latest Web information printed. Over 150 articles, magazines,
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market research reports and books are catalogued.
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Other forthcoming Web services from Information Innovation will go much further
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by providing extensive information bases on financial terminology, financially
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engineered products, technology suppliers, print media and CD-ROM information
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sources and more. For further information send mail to webinfo@euronet.nl
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**************************************************
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Introduction to the World Wide Web
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Section 1: New Sites
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This section lists interesting and useful Web sites and other sources of
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Internet information.
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This Month:
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Academic
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Business
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Community
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Computing
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Publishing
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Further Web Information
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Academic
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http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/archnet/archnet.html
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A database of information of interest to archaeologists.
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http://rubens.anu.edu.au/searchmenu.html
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Shakespeares plays and sonnets, Homers Iliad and Odyssey, Tacitus History and
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Annals, and more searchable works.
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http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
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Buddhist Studies Virtual Library at the Australian National
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University.
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http://envirolink.org/
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A large environmental information archive.
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/
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An inter-disciplinary team at the University of Southern California has a WWW
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server that allows users to tele-operate a robot arm over the net. Users view
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the environment surrounding the arm via a sequence of live images taken by a CCD
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camera mounted on a commercial robot arm. The robot is positioned over a
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terrain filled with sand; a pneumatic system, also mounted on the robot, allows
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users to direct short bursts of compressed air into the sand at selected points.
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Thus users can "excavate" regions within the sand by positioning the arm,
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delivering a burst of air, and viewing the newly cleared region. To operate the
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robot you'll need an ethernet link and a WWW client that handles forms.
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Business
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BUSINESS PAGES
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http://pass.wayne.edu/business.html
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A collection of information and site links of interest to business. Contains
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some useful information about how to connect into the Internet.
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gopher://refmac.kent.edu:70/1D-1:11404:Business Sources on the Net
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This is a gopher directory of business resources on the Net. It contains
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documents on accounting, computers, economics, finance, investments, location,
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management, operations, personnel, and statistics.
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OFFSHORE COMPANIES
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OFFSHORE is an open, unmoderated discussion list which will focus on exchanging
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information about offshore company and trust structures. Send email to Arnold L.
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Cornez, J.D. at arniec@hopf.dnai.com. This is new to us, if anyone has more
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information we will publish it next week.
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SHOPPING
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http://www.ip.net/shops.html
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Email questions to: webdev@tcp.ip.net
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Not another cyber mall I hear you cry? Well yes, but this one has some
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interesting ideas and is trying to offer a cheaper alternative to the big boys
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like CommerceNet.
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STOCK QUOTES
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http://www.quote.com/
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QuoteCom are offering quotes on Internet. The stock prices are time-delayed by
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15 minutes and you have to pay a modest amount for most of the information.
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Check out our interview in Section 5 with QuoteComs founder, Chris Cooper.
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STRATEGY
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http://www.onramp.net/~atw_dhw/precom.htm
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StrategyWeb provides question and answer hyperbook interactions with experts in
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business strategy.
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Community
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VIEWS NEWSLETTER
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seeviews@telecomp.com
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This is a biweekly electronic newsletter about Community Networking. VIEWS has
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its base in New England (the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River--where
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Vermont and New Hampshire meet, home of Dartmouth College and the proposed Upper
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Valley Community Network) but covers Internet and Community Networking issues in
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general. Their goal is to provide a tool for electronic community. Free copies
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are available by sending e-mail to seeviews@telecomp.com with the words:
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get views nn
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where nn is the day of the issue. For example get views 15 will get you the
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issue for the 15th of the month.
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VIRTUAL CITY
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http://www.awa.com/
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Exactly what it says, a Web city is being constructed, complete with all the
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usual facilities of an American town, a main street, magazines, library,
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financial services and a post office.
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VIRTUAL COMMUNITY
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http://sailfish.peregrine.com/WebWorld/welcome.html
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Another virtual community, called Web World.
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Computer
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http://www.ziff.com/
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Ziff-Davis now has two web servers containing information about PCs. One
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includes a pointer to a new Hot Web site every week or so.
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http://usenix.org/
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The USENIX Association has a server for UNIX and advanced computing systems
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issues.
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Publishing
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SELF PUBLISHING
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http://sparc57.cs.uiuc.edu:8000/
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This is a Web self publishing system which is an organised set of Web addresses
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(URLs) which anyone on the Web can add to. This is an interesting idea which
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reproduces the Web in the same way as the Internet grows - without central
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control by any one body.
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TidBITS
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ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/
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http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/macintosh-tidbits.html
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An interesting collection of information relating to the Macintosh cyberworld.
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TidBITS is stored on a Connection machine and is WAIS searchable. Send email to
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info@tidbits.com for further information.
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Further Web Information
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STATISTICS
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http://www.gatech.edu:80/pitkow/survey/survey-1-1994/
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James Pitkow and of the Georgia State Tech have conducted a survey of web use.
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The results are on the web and include some interesting graphs which are
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ftpable.
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/stats/NSF/merit.html
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Also by James Pitkow, this site serves statistics relating to the NSFNet
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backbone, one of the central networks in the Internet. Statistics are published
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monthly and illustrate the amount of traffic being generated.
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gopher://akasha.tic.com/11/matrix/growth/internet
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This is a gopher run by Texas Internet Consultants with maps of Internet growth.
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NEWS GROUPS
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comp.infosystems.www.misc
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comp.infosystems.www.providers
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comp.infosystems.www.users
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These are the Usenet discussion groups about the WWW. Very popular and useful.
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WIT - W3 Interactive Talk
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http://info.cern.ch/wit
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A Web collection of discussion groups anyone can participate in.
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comp.groupware
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comp.groupware.lotus-notes.misc
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For those interested in co-operative work and distributed information systems.
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WEB PAGES
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http://www.digimark.net/wow/
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The "Web of Wonder" home page has over 5000 links to Web sites.
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Section 2: The Top Ten
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Based on Steve Bennetts forthcoming MIT Working Paper - Recent Developments in
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Business Use of the Internet - Emerging Uses of the World Wide Web by Lead Users
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(catchy title!) the most visited Web sites are:
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1. CommerceNet (51,000 requests made per week)
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http://www.commerce.net/
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2. Canadian Airlines International (33,000 requests
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made per week)
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http:/www.cdnair.ca/
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3. Ericsson Netherlands Server (22,000 files accessed
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per week)
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http://www.ericsson.nl/
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4. Securities Exchange Commissions Edgar Server at NYU
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(8,000 accesses per week, serving 3.25 GB of
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information)
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http://town.hall.org/cgi-bin/srch-edgar
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5. Internet Shopping Network (7,000 requests made per
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week, serving 100,000 pages of information per week)
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http://www.internet.net
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6. Quote.Com (12,000 requests made per week)
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http://www.quote.com/
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7. GNN
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http://nearnet.gnn.com/GNN-ORA.html
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8. AT&T Bell Laboratories (5,600 files accessed per
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week)
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http://www.research.att.com/
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9. Digital Equipment Corporation (5,000 ftps per week)
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http:/www.digital.com
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10. World Real Estate Listing Service (4,000 requests
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made per week)
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http://interchange.idc.uvic.ca/wrels/index.html
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This report is expected to be published shortly. Details in next months The Web
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Word.
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CommerceNet, a leading commercial platform on the Internet made available to The
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Web Word the list of the top 10 companies accessing their services for the
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period April to June 1994:
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(The companies own WWW server is also listed)
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1. Hewlett Packard
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http://www.hp.com
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2. Silicon Graphics
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http://www.sgi.com
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3. Xerox
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http://www.xerox.com/
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4. Amdahl
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http://www.amdahl.com/
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5. AT&T
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http://www.research.att.com/
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6. Sun Microsystems
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http://www.sun.com/
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7. Digital
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http:/www.digital.com
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8. J.P. Morgan
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no public WWW server
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9. Network Computing Devices
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http://www.ncd.com/
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10. InterNet Shopping Network
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http://www.internet.net/
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The top seven users are both members of CommerceNet and independently provide
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extensive Internet WWW services. This same service reports that the top three
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categories of users are:
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1. US educational
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2. US commercial
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3. US external networks such as CompuServe.
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These figures are for the same period, April to June 1994. Over this period
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requests were received from some 11,400 host computers for a total of 663,000
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requests. They are currently averaging approximately 51,000 requests, and
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between 100 and 150 new host computers are registered per week.
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If you know of a Web site which should be on our list then please contact us and
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well update.
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Section 3: Latest News on the Web
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This month:
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Lotus and The Internet
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Clearinghouse For Code
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The Computists Communique
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WAVE
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The Internet Adapter
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New Investment Fund
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Embedded Program Objects In Distributed Hypermedia Systems
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Lotus and The Internet
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Changing their marketing strategy, Lotus has announced that it is to market its
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Notes groupware as a way to deploy and manage databases on the World Wide Web.
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There is a stampede to put information on the Web, but it is not easy to set up
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a Web server... We have the tools to make it easier, says Lotus chief technology
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officer. It makes sense, says a Yankee Group analyst. By fashioning that kind of
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function in Notes, Lotus becomes a kind of gatekeeper on the Internet.
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(Refer to Information Week 8/29/94 p.31 for the full text)
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Clearinghouse For Code
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Software Properties Inc. is a proposed Internet clearinghouse for code, or
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software brokerage. Available code modules will be registered in a
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database/catalog, for browsing by other developers or software managers.
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Contact Ron Ferguson (spinc@metronet.com).
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The Computists Communique
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The Computists Communique is an AI/IS/CS news service of Computists
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International. Weekly issues of about 32KB(8 pages) include job ads, journal
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calls, NSF announcements, grant and research news, on-line resources, and
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business tips. You get a concise, time-saving summary from dozens of sources.
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Two less-condensed digests are also available. One covers job opportunities
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that are too applied to be summarized in the weekly Communique; the other
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forwards research software announcements. These timely press release digests
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are free if you want them, invisible if you dont.
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Contact Dr. Kenneth Laws at laws@ai.sri.com for further details.
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WAVE
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This is a new magazine which deals with technology and culture. It is a lot like
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Wired but has a European viewpoint and is available in the Dutch and French
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languages.
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If you want to discover Wave, please ask us for a sample. The editor-in-chief is
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Michel Bauwens; publisher is riverland
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Publications. Contact imadmac@ub4b.eunet.be or michel.bauwens@adm.rs.ch for a
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sample copy.
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The Internet Adapter
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This is a new US25 dollar program which changes a Internet UNIX shell account
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into a SLIP account. Produced by Cyberspace Development you can get a copy by
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sending an email to tia-info@marketplace.com or by using the Web and going to:
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http://marketplace.com/
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ftp://marketplace.com/tia/
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New Investment Fund
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Adobe Systems Inc. and Hambrecht & Quist Group Inc. have joined together to
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form a fund to invest in software firms. The Silicon valley fund is called Adobe
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Ventures and will invest in emerging companies and has already made its first
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two investments. The first two investments of the fund are Cascade Systems
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International Inc. and Electronic Submission Publishing Systems Inc.
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Adobe has promised to provide $25m in investment funds and act as the exclusive
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limited partner of Adobe Ventures. Adobe also transferred its shares in two
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other companies, Crosswise Corp. and Saros Corp., into the Adobe Ventures
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partnership. Cascade is developing technology for electronic pre-press and
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electronic delivery systems for the newspaper and commercial publishing market.
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Electronic Submission is a systems developer/integrator of comprehensive
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electronic publishing systems for managing, publishing and distributing
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regulatory submissions.
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Embedded Program Objects In Distributed Hypermedia Systems
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Researchers at the U. of California have created software for embedding
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interactive program objects within hypermedia documents. This UC software is the
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first instance where program objects have been embedded in documents over an
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open and distributed hypermedia environment such as the World Wide Web on the
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Internet.
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The researchers' first application, already ported to an X Window environment,
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enhances NCSA Mosaic -TM- -a client program for the WWW- so that the user can
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interactively control the display of a 3D medical image -generated from a
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gigabyte-sized data set- on a window within a Mosaic document. The user can
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rotate the object at will, zoom in or out, do oblique sectioning, highlight
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hidden parts, alter the color mapping and image contrast, all under real-time
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control. These capabilities represent a substantial improvement over current
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image display applications in Mosaic, which are limited to display of static
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images and non-interactive playback modes.
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Many additional applications could include:
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- internet accesible on-line databases, software libraries, and
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software demos which involve large-scale data processing
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- 'smart' documents for personal forms, financial or consumer
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transactions, credit reports, confidential communications,
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etc.
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- real-time high-level information exchanges, such as multiuser
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CAD
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- multi-users 'groupware' programs
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Inquiries to Martha Luehrmann, UC Office of Technology Transfer, 510-748-6611,
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martha@ott.ucop.edu.
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Section 4: Under the Microscope...
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Reuters New Media
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This month The Web Word takes a closer look at one of the giants of electronic
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||
information, Reuters. Based in New York, Reuters NewMedia, Inc., a new business
|
||
unit of Reuters, has developed a reputation for aggressive moves in cyberspace.
|
||
RNI has taken positions in a number of cyber companies, notably Reality
|
||
Technologies, Inc., inGenius Inc., and Ad-Value, Inc. in the past year.
|
||
|
||
It is no exaggeration to say that Reuters, the parent company of RNI, dominates
|
||
many areas of electronic financial information and it will be interesting to see
|
||
if Reuters has just discovered a new data pipe for selling its information or is
|
||
embarking on a more radical change in strategy. Is the Web server a small
|
||
addition to its recent diversification<6F>s into cyberspace or something more
|
||
fundamental?
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||
|
||
It seemed to be an inevitable step when RNI announced last month that it was to
|
||
open a WWW service. The Web Word interviewed Pierre Wolff of RNI (and the man
|
||
responsible for developing the planned service), what we can expect from this
|
||
move into the Web.
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||
|
||
WWW Reuters has just announced its first move into the Web.
|
||
Why has Reuters done this?
|
||
|
||
PW Reuters understands the impact that the Internet could
|
||
have on its future and has made a conscious effort not to
|
||
be left out of the coming information revolution. As well,
|
||
it is important to begin to understand how this medium
|
||
might provide a useful platform for commerce in the
|
||
future, even if only as a prototype initially.
|
||
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||
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||
WWW What services are you planning?
|
||
|
||
PW Currently, two Web servers are being planned for release
|
||
in the short-term with other offerings coming in later
|
||
months based on the response we get from these first
|
||
trials. One will be primarily an information site,
|
||
providing those interested, with what Reuters NewMedia is
|
||
all about, and what services and products we offer. The
|
||
second server will enable users to search through archival
|
||
news information by a number of criteria including free
|
||
text searches. This site will also have some interesting
|
||
and "off-the-wall" stuff that we run into in the news
|
||
business all the time.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What advantages does the Web have for you?
|
||
|
||
PW Various. Many people are getting access to the Web which
|
||
provides a large user base to provide services to. It
|
||
breaks down some of the restrictions that many of the on-
|
||
line service providers had on publishers. The Internet,
|
||
but especially the WWW, offers an open medium for anyone
|
||
to publish as they wish, what they wish. Though this
|
||
could be perceived as a risk for us, given all of the
|
||
"niche" publications that are resulting from this, we feel
|
||
that our content will remain strong enough to compete at
|
||
all levels. Here at NewMedia our mission is to look at new
|
||
media and new markets. Essentially (if you'll pardon the
|
||
pun) "go where no Reuters has gone before". We are
|
||
looking at how to leverage the parent company's
|
||
competencies and assets into new market areas. So far it
|
||
all looks very promising, and the Web offers some new
|
||
opportunities.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What are the disadvantages?
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||
|
||
PW Today, the disadvantages lie primarily in the security
|
||
issues, certainly as perceived by potential users, user
|
||
interface limitations, and speed and cost as functions of
|
||
each other. But these are all temporary states that are
|
||
being addressed by a number of dedicated companies and
|
||
individuals. We have a lot of confidence in what the
|
||
future will bear from all of their efforts. Having seen
|
||
some of the fruits of these efforts I'm very enthusiastic
|
||
as to the opportunities that will be emerging over the
|
||
next six months to one year.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What equipment are you planning to use?
|
||
|
||
PW Digital Equipment Corp. is supplying us with our firewall
|
||
equipment and software and we will use Sun workstations as
|
||
our servers.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW How popular do you expect these services to be?
|
||
|
||
PW We really don't know, which is the biggest dilemma in
|
||
putting up a service on the Net today. Every major company
|
||
doing something in this area is having a tough time with
|
||
this same issue. I think its popularity will be based on
|
||
the quality of the content and the ease at getting at this
|
||
information. So far the average number of users that
|
||
subscribe to Net-based services, particularly those on the
|
||
WWW, is approx. 800 to 1000 users per month.
|
||
Unfortunately, even this figure isn't very consistent
|
||
across the same type of services.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW Are there plans to extend other Reuters software to take
|
||
advantage of the Internet? For example your personal
|
||
investment product Reuters Money Network?
|
||
|
||
PW Reality Technologies' products, Wealth Builder and Reuters
|
||
Money Network, are not scheduled to go on the Net in the
|
||
first phase of deployment. However, we plan on having a
|
||
Web server where information on their products will be
|
||
available as well as some useful investment news
|
||
information that applies to those interested in personal
|
||
finance matters.
|
||
|
||
As you might know, Reuters also has interests in the
|
||
education market which is led by a joint-venture with TCI,
|
||
called inGenius. Opportunities for developing software on
|
||
the WWW for this market might be considered as so many
|
||
schools currently have access to the Net. Other
|
||
opportunities exist in our vast video archives. Reuters
|
||
has many areas that it might be able to capitalize on the
|
||
Net but first we must see what results can be obtained
|
||
from those initial services that we launch.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW Does Reuters use the Internet internally for
|
||
communications within the company?
|
||
|
||
PW Not at this time. However, we are investigating the Net
|
||
by using individual accounts and getting familiar with the
|
||
possibilities that are available. We expect this activity
|
||
to grow and for NewMedia in particular, we expect to have
|
||
direct access to the Net in the short-term.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW How does the Web fit into Reuters other electronic
|
||
businesses?
|
||
|
||
PW Potentially quite nicely, but we must be careful not to
|
||
jump in too aggressively before all of the pieces are
|
||
there. Today, Reuters has one of the larger global public
|
||
data networks and it can guarantee performance and
|
||
security on it. These are tremendous selling points when
|
||
you are selling to the financial services industry, where
|
||
those features make or break their businesses. The
|
||
Internet is not up to that level of quality today, and so
|
||
it is not yet a real issue for those areas. However, the
|
||
accessibility extended by the Net is desirable which might
|
||
drive changes in the future.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW Reuters has a long tradition of innovation in delivering
|
||
information to its clients. What are the next steps for
|
||
the company on the Web?
|
||
|
||
PW Today, Reuters information can be found through services
|
||
such as PSI and Clarinet on the Internet and the various
|
||
on-line service providers such as CompuServe, America On-
|
||
line, Prodigy, and others. Today these are just
|
||
newsfeeds. The future for us here is one where we provide
|
||
value-added information products and not just commodity
|
||
news. After all, if its not targeted information in this
|
||
media rich world, its just a commodity. We are looking at
|
||
technologies that will enable us to provide the value-
|
||
added side of delivering quality and timely information to
|
||
the desktop of both business users and individual
|
||
consumers. The Web will provide for us the springboard to
|
||
more quickly deploy new technologies and see how they
|
||
impact our users. We are currently exploring technologies
|
||
that will help users get the most out of their search
|
||
beyond text matching. These technologies are easily
|
||
deployable over the WWW and can give us the insight for
|
||
our non-Internet based products.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What do you personally think of the Web? The good aspects
|
||
and the bad?
|
||
|
||
PW I'm the wrong guy to ask, because I got a job out of
|
||
knowing my way around it, and being very enthused with the
|
||
opportunities it offers for commerce. However, I have
|
||
been most attracted to it because of the somewhat
|
||
self-deterministic nature of the beast. Though I feel
|
||
it's a good environment to conduct business, I don't want
|
||
to ruin it like all of our other mediums. After all,
|
||
commercialism has pushed things so far that people are
|
||
looking at the Internet as a way to start doing business
|
||
in a different and less intrusive way. I'm not in this
|
||
for "how can I take advantage of this virgin territory",
|
||
but more, "how can I facilitate how we do business over
|
||
this medium on a global basis without getting in each
|
||
others' faces". I also like the fact that now everyone has
|
||
the opportunity to be published without the need for some
|
||
massive printing press or a publisher to back you. It's
|
||
the spirit of capitalism all over again with everyone
|
||
having the opportunity to be heard and to do business on
|
||
fairly equitable level.
|
||
|
||
WWW Thanks for talking with us and letting our readers have an
|
||
insight into Reuters New Media.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
|
||
Section 5: This Months Interview...
|
||
QuoteCom
|
||
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
|
||
|
||
This month The Web Word interviews Chris Cooper, founder and owner of QuoteCom.
|
||
This is a stock quotation Web service which has generated great interest both
|
||
within the Web community and in the financial services industry in general.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What first made you think of offering this sort of
|
||
service?
|
||
|
||
CC I have a background in the both the financial markets
|
||
and in running a software company. Once I got involved
|
||
in the Internet and realized that a commercial quality
|
||
service to provide stock quotes and other financial
|
||
information to that community did not exist, I decided
|
||
to start QuoteCom. In that sense, you can say that I'm
|
||
an opportunist who saw an unserved market and rushed to
|
||
fill the void...I just happened to be well-qualified to
|
||
fill this particular niche.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW How popular is the service you currently offer?
|
||
|
||
CC We're doing quite well. We're adding subscribers at a
|
||
constant rate which shows no signs of slacking. Since
|
||
we've done no traditional advertising, I'm very
|
||
encouraged. In fact, if our growth was any faster, we
|
||
would be unable to handle it at the moment.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW When did QuoteCom <20>open its doors<72> for business?
|
||
|
||
CC July 1, 1994. I started the company in October, 1993
|
||
and it took 9 months of development and testing before
|
||
we were ready.
|
||
|
||
WWW What advantages does QuoteCom have over more traditional
|
||
stock services?
|
||
|
||
CC We try to capitalize on the advantages that the Internet
|
||
provides us. For example, this means that we don't have
|
||
to build a nation-wide dial-up network, and we don't
|
||
have to do technical support on modem problems. We're
|
||
able to develop using existing Internet tools, and when
|
||
we make a change in our service our customers see it
|
||
immediately -- they don't have to wait for us to ship
|
||
them a disk. It's easy and inexpensive to communicate
|
||
with our customers...we send them email once a week,
|
||
which would be prohibitively expensive to do via regular
|
||
mail.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What are the disadvantages?
|
||
|
||
CC Not everybody has Internet access, and it's still not as
|
||
easy as it should be to learn how to use the Net. This
|
||
drives potential customers away before we even get to
|
||
see them.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What has been the biggest challenge in making QuoteCom
|
||
a reality?
|
||
|
||
CC The learning curve is pretty steep and long. I've done
|
||
most of the programming myself, and I didn't know
|
||
anything about UNIX when I started. Since UNIX is still
|
||
the best way to make services like ours available to the
|
||
Internet community, I had to learn a lot.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW Who are your target markets?
|
||
|
||
CC Our appeal is especially strong to retail investors and
|
||
casual traders. Institutional investors and
|
||
professional traders are well-served by alternatives
|
||
that, while expensive, are reliable and comprehensive.
|
||
We prefer to take advantage of the cost savings that the
|
||
Internet provides and pass it on to the customers who
|
||
are the most cost-sensitive.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW How have you been marketing the service?
|
||
|
||
CC A combination of: 1) Posting occasional notices in the
|
||
Usenet investment newsgroups; 2) Traditional public
|
||
relations; 3) Pursuing site licenses with Internet
|
||
providers; 4) Word of mouth.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What equipment are you using?
|
||
|
||
CC A network of Sun workstations and PC's. The PC's handle
|
||
the ticker feed and news feeds. The Suns handle the
|
||
interaction with the Internet. We have a high-speed T1
|
||
connection to the Internet.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW Are there plans to make alliances with other content
|
||
owners?
|
||
|
||
CC Absolutely. QuoteCom plans to become the center of the
|
||
Internet as far as financial information goes. We
|
||
expect to have everything here that is of interest to
|
||
investors...to be as close to a one-stop shopping center
|
||
as possible.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW Do you have new services planned?
|
||
|
||
CC We just added PR Newswire and BusinessWire. We have two
|
||
more business news services planned soon. We'll soon
|
||
add a collection of financial newsletters. A stock
|
||
screening and ranking program is in the works, and more
|
||
third-party content is under negotiation.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What are the next steps for the company on the Web?
|
||
|
||
CC We would like to support secure transactions. Once
|
||
these are in place, we can add features such as on-line
|
||
trading. Of course it's only a dream right now, but we
|
||
would ultimately like to provide an electronic exchange
|
||
for traders that can avoid some of the inefficiencies
|
||
inherent in today's exchanges.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW What do you personally think of the Web? The good
|
||
aspects and the bad?
|
||
|
||
CC From a user's point of view, I love the variety and
|
||
richness of information that is available. I love the
|
||
tremendous ease of visiting places located anywhere in
|
||
the world. I dislike the buggy nature of many of the
|
||
Web browsers. I dislike the lack of sites that make me
|
||
want to visit them again and again.
|
||
|
||
From a provider's point of view, it is tremendously easy
|
||
to develop applications for the Web. We made the
|
||
decision early to support people without Web access. If
|
||
we hadn't done this, our development would have been
|
||
much easier, but our market would have been much smaller
|
||
initially. It is disappointing how much effort it takes
|
||
right now to get users connected and using a Web
|
||
browser.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WWW Thanks for talking with us and letting our readers have
|
||
an insight into your innovative business.
|
||
|
||
|
||
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
|
||
Section 6: The Detectives Guide to...
|
||
Financial Information
|
||
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
|
||
|
||
Contents of this Guide:
|
||
|
||
Introduction
|
||
The Good News
|
||
The Bad News
|
||
On-line Investment Services
|
||
How to Use the Web to do your Job
|
||
Roadmap to Finance
|
||
Main Topics
|
||
Sources by Topic
|
||
The A to Z list of important sites
|
||
Conclusion
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------
|
||
Introduction
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
Interested in how your stocks and bonds are trading today? Looking for advice on
|
||
investments? Want to find out what a companies financial situation is? Cant
|
||
remember the title of that great paper on Stochastic Analysis and Japanese Stock
|
||
Exchanges? Want to talk to other people with similar interests?
|
||
|
||
Put as briefly as possible, this guide gives you:
|
||
|
||
1. Some encouragements and warnings
|
||
2. Tips on how to exploit the Web
|
||
3. Tells you what is available
|
||
4. Shows you where to get what you want
|
||
|
||
Good luck!
|
||
|
||
|
||
-------------
|
||
The Good News
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
The good news is that the Web can supply you with all of the above and this
|
||
month The Web Word shows you where to finds the best finance information using
|
||
the Web. Many people both new to the WWW and more experienced internetters are
|
||
often surprised at the detailed and diverse sorts of information which can be
|
||
reached using the WWW. Much of the information is completely free and sources
|
||
which charge are often cheaper to use than services not on the Internet.
|
||
|
||
The main part of this guide is an alphabetical listing of places which have
|
||
financial information. Like most Internet areas, the Web suffers from a lack of
|
||
organisation. The information you want is often available, but how do you find
|
||
it amongst the hundreds of thousands of other Internet sources?
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------
|
||
The Bad News
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
There are some places which consist of lists of sites, they are often organised
|
||
by topic or subject area. None however are complete. There are now a large
|
||
number of books now published on paper which are designed to guide you, but as
|
||
the Web is changing and expanding so fast these are out of date before they are
|
||
on the shelves of your local book shop. The Web Word is a happy medium between
|
||
the printed word and the Web itself. It filters information for its readers and
|
||
removes a lot of the time wasting and boring searching of the Internet.
|
||
|
||
Efficiently getting what you want out of the Web requires experience which many
|
||
business professionals simply do not have the time to do. This is why The Web
|
||
Word publishes a guide on two levels. The A to Z listing is the raw information
|
||
for those who know exactly what they want.
|
||
|
||
The additional level of information is a roadmap to steer you through the
|
||
information overload of the Internet. If this is what you want then keep
|
||
reading, if not skip the following and go directly to the A to Z guide to
|
||
Finance.
|
||
|
||
|
||
---------------------------
|
||
On-line Investment Services
|
||
---------------------------
|
||
|
||
The Web is the worlds richest and most diverse source of financial information
|
||
but it is also not the friendliest. There are alternatives, all of them costing
|
||
more money but still popular with many people. Remember that these are mostly
|
||
only available within North America:
|
||
|
||
- America Online has Morningstar investment reports and a small portfolio
|
||
service.
|
||
|
||
- CompuServe has many discussion groups on investments and markets, including
|
||
the SEC filings service. Has world-wide coverage.
|
||
|
||
- Dow Jones News/Retrieval is an expensive (for the individual) specialised
|
||
service but they also have a service called Market Monitor which is accessible
|
||
outside of peak times at a cost of about US30 dollars a month.
|
||
|
||
- Quicken and Quicken Companion 2.0 for Windows lets you track stock prices via
|
||
CompuServe but this costs US1 dollar a minute.
|
||
|
||
- Reuters Money Network for Windows is a fixed price service which not only
|
||
gives you stock prices but also a personalized news service extracted from Dow
|
||
Jones News Wire. Prices per month begin at around US10 dollars plus US7 dollars
|
||
for the news service.
|
||
|
||
- StreetSmart from Charles Schwab deals only with your Schwab investments and is
|
||
charged for as you use it. The Dow Jones News Wire and Schwab company research
|
||
reports can also be used, but at a pay per view.
|
||
|
||
- Value Line Service lets you use the Dow Jones Retrieval Service but for about
|
||
US30 dollars a month.
|
||
|
||
|
||
---------------------------------
|
||
How to Use the Web to do your Job
|
||
---------------------------------
|
||
|
||
The Web is an asset which you can use to your benefit. If you know how to avoid
|
||
getting lost in an information overloaded Internet then it can be exploited in
|
||
unexpected ways. The purpose of this section is to give you some useful tips
|
||
about how to do this. First it is best to start with some business home truths
|
||
about the Web:
|
||
|
||
1. It is a huge collection of information stored in a number of electronic
|
||
formats and organised in a myriad of different ways. The Web itself provides
|
||
only primitive ways of searching for data. I say primitive advisedly. This is
|
||
because although incredible new facilities like natural language WAIS searches
|
||
are possible, and hypertext linking is a basic feature of the Web, the
|
||
implementations are haphazard. Using the Web effectively involves the user in:
|
||
|
||
- learning new software (usually your Mosaic client).
|
||
- accepting less than 100% availability of the
|
||
information.
|
||
- preparing to be surprised as new features are added
|
||
almost daily.
|
||
- learning to get the information you expected but not
|
||
having it packaged neatly in the form of a consultants
|
||
report.
|
||
|
||
This is not yet industrial strength software, but the information is real and
|
||
can be valuable to you.
|
||
|
||
2. The Web is not simply a passive repository of information. It has been built
|
||
by a great many people and these people are available to answer specific
|
||
questions, give clarifications, and are often very helpful sources of further
|
||
information.
|
||
|
||
3. The Web is an open asset for you and is only as good as the people using it.
|
||
If you have information which you think is interesting and worth publishing,
|
||
then find a way to put it on the Web. This helps everyone. Just think of the
|
||
information out there already, available free or at moderate cost.
|
||
|
||
-------------------
|
||
Roadmap to Finance:
|
||
-------------------
|
||
|
||
Main Topics:
|
||
------------
|
||
Topic Sub Topic
|
||
----- ---------
|
||
Academic Finance
|
||
Economics
|
||
Banking
|
||
Company
|
||
Country Austria
|
||
Germany
|
||
Sweden
|
||
USA
|
||
All
|
||
Finance
|
||
Government
|
||
Industry Mining
|
||
Rural
|
||
All
|
||
Insurance
|
||
Investment Advice Newsletters
|
||
Subscription Services
|
||
Discussions
|
||
General
|
||
Market Data Historical
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||
Current
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||
Market Advice
|
||
News Services
|
||
Law
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||
Risk Issues
|
||
Technology
|
||
Trade
|
||
|
||
|
||
Sources by Topic:
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
Category of Information Recommended Sources
|
||
----------------------- -------------------
|
||
|
||
Academic Finance FEN
|
||
FINweb
|
||
RiskNet
|
||
Economics Economics
|
||
FINweb
|
||
RiskNet
|
||
World Bank database
|
||
|
||
Banking Financial Services Mall
|
||
Financial Services Tech. Consortium
|
||
Interfinance
|
||
Warehouse Mortgage
|
||
World Bank database
|
||
|
||
Company Company Financial Information
|
||
Corporate Reports Stories
|
||
DowVision
|
||
Short On Value
|
||
New Patent Applications
|
||
SEC filings
|
||
MIT Experimental Stock Database
|
||
|
||
Country Austria Vienna Stock Exchange
|
||
Germany Germany
|
||
Sweden Sweden
|
||
USA Federal Reserve Board
|
||
US Commodities and futures
|
||
US Agricultural Dept statistics
|
||
US Commerce Dept statistics
|
||
All CIA World Factbook
|
||
ITU
|
||
Netnews Filtering Service
|
||
Trade Information
|
||
World Bank database
|
||
|
||
Finance Nasdaq Financial Executive Journal
|
||
Netnews Filtering Service
|
||
Nelson Capital Management
|
||
Paul C.Y. Huang
|
||
USENET Financial groups
|
||
|
||
Government CIA World Factbook
|
||
Federal Reserve Board
|
||
SEC filings
|
||
World Bank database
|
||
|
||
Industry Mining The Mining Channel
|
||
Rural US Agricultural Dept statistics
|
||
All SEC filings
|
||
QuoteCom
|
||
World Bank database
|
||
|
||
Insurance American Risk and Insurance Ass.
|
||
RiskNet
|
||
|
||
Investment
|
||
Advice Newsletters Internet Personal Finance Letter
|
||
Market Beat
|
||
The Mining Channel
|
||
NETworth
|
||
Nelson Capital Management
|
||
Colloquium
|
||
Corporate Reports Stories
|
||
Paul C.Y. Huang
|
||
Market Beat
|
||
Short On Value
|
||
Subscription
|
||
Services Netnews Filtering Service
|
||
DowVision
|
||
QuoteCom
|
||
Discussions Frequently Asked Questions
|
||
USENET Financial groups
|
||
General Personal Finance
|
||
Misc.invest Archive
|
||
|
||
Market Data Historical Dun & Bradstreet
|
||
Economics
|
||
SEC filings
|
||
MIT Experimental Stock Database
|
||
US. Commodities and futures
|
||
Misc.invest Archive
|
||
Current Dow Jones
|
||
Netnews Filtering Service
|
||
Nelson Capital Management
|
||
Colloquium
|
||
DowVision
|
||
Paul C.Y. Huang
|
||
Market Beat
|
||
Short On Value
|
||
Stock Quotes
|
||
Holts Stock Market Reports
|
||
QuoteCom
|
||
MIT Experimental Stock Database
|
||
Security APL Quote Server
|
||
Vienna Stock Exchange
|
||
|
||
Market Advice Market Beat
|
||
Markets and Investments
|
||
NETworth
|
||
Nelson Capital Management
|
||
Colloquium
|
||
Paul C.Y. Huang
|
||
Market Beat
|
||
Short On Value
|
||
Misc.invest Archive
|
||
|
||
News Services EDUPage
|
||
Netnews Filtering Service
|
||
DowVision
|
||
The Economist
|
||
Financial World
|
||
Inc.
|
||
Individual Investor
|
||
Worth
|
||
Holts Stock Market Reports
|
||
QuoteCom
|
||
|
||
Law Trade Information
|
||
World Bank database
|
||
|
||
Risk Issues American Risk and Insurance Ass.
|
||
RiskNet
|
||
|
||
Technology Wired
|
||
EDUPage
|
||
Products
|
||
Digicash
|
||
Software
|
||
|
||
Trade Trade Information
|
||
US Agricultural Dept statistics
|
||
US Commerce Dept statistics
|
||
World Bank database
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------End of part 2 of 3 ----------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------
|
||
The A to Z list of important sites:
|
||
----------------------------------
|
||
|
||
American Risk and Insurance Association
|
||
---------------------------------------
|
||
http://finweb.bus.utexas.edu/aria.html
|
||
ARIAWeb serves information concerning the programs and services offered to
|
||
members and friends of the American Risk and Insurance Association. This is a
|
||
very specialized site but if this is a area you need to know about then this is
|
||
the place to be.
|
||
|
||
CIA World Factbook
|
||
------------------
|
||
http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/NTDB/Wofact.html
|
||
Facts and figures for just about every nation.
|
||
|
||
Colloquium
|
||
----------
|
||
Refer to the Newsletter entry.
|
||
|
||
Company Financial Information
|
||
-----------------------------
|
||
Both Lexis/Nexis and Dialog are accessible over the Internet. Contact those
|
||
companies for further details.
|
||
|
||
Country Information
|
||
-------------------
|
||
Most information on the Internet is US centred but information on other
|
||
countries can be obtained from the CIA World Factbook. the Vienna Stock
|
||
Exchange, the US Agricultural and Commerce Department reports, a number of other
|
||
government servers (to be found via http://www.xerox.com/), the World Bank, the
|
||
German Investment Club,
|
||
|
||
Digicash
|
||
--------
|
||
http://digicash.support.nl/
|
||
WWW service of DigiCash. a company founded in 1990, and has been involved in
|
||
smart cards, security, and electronic payments systems since then. The company
|
||
has developed ecash (electronic cash) for transactions over the Internet. The
|
||
Dutch office is at:
|
||
DigiCash bv
|
||
Kruislaan 419
|
||
1098 VA Amsterdam
|
||
The Netherlands
|
||
tel +31-20 665 2611
|
||
fax +31-20 668 5486
|
||
email info@digicash.nl
|
||
www http://digicash.support.nl/ or http://193.78.164.127/
|
||
anonymous ftp digicash.support.nl
|
||
|
||
Dow Jones DowVision
|
||
--------------------------------
|
||
http://dowvision.wais.net/
|
||
A restricted access service but you can talk further with Dow at
|
||
beta@dowvision.wais.net
|
||
|
||
The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
|
||
--------------------------------
|
||
http://www.corp.dnb.com/
|
||
http://www.corp.dnb.com/cgi-bin/imagemap/main
|
||
A demonstration service with searchable directories.
|
||
|
||
Economics
|
||
---------
|
||
There are a number of specialist sites of interest to economists.
|
||
|
||
http://www.einet.net/hytelnet/FUL043.html
|
||
Arizona State University server of economic development information.
|
||
|
||
gopher://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
|
||
The agricultural economics database of Cornell University.
|
||
|
||
http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu
|
||
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/11/ebb/
|
||
The University of Michigan has two servers. This one has academic papers and the
|
||
second has US. Dept. of Commerce Economic Bulletin Board information.
|
||
|
||
gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu/11/Subject/Economics
|
||
A server at Rice University.
|
||
|
||
gopher://niord.shsu.edu/11gopher_root%3a%5b_DATA.ECONOMICS%5d
|
||
Sam Houston State University economics server.
|
||
|
||
http://kiwiclub.bus.utexas.edu/finance/kiwiserver/kiwiserver.html
|
||
University of Texas server.
|
||
|
||
gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/1
|
||
An economics server at Washington University.
|
||
|
||
ftp://info.umd.edu/info/EconData
|
||
Economic Time Series data and software.
|
||
|
||
http://www.einet.net/hytelnet/OTH101.html
|
||
The US Economic Development Information Network.
|
||
|
||
Refer also to RiskNet, FEN and FINweb entries.
|
||
|
||
EDUPage news digest
|
||
-------------------
|
||
Edupage, a summary of news items on information technology, is provided three
|
||
times each week as a service by Educom -- a consortium of leading colleges and
|
||
universities seeking to transform education through the use of information
|
||
technology.
|
||
To subscribe to Edupage: send a message to: listproc@educom.edu and in the BODY
|
||
of the message type: subscribe edupage Rufus T. Firefly (assuming that your name
|
||
is Rufus T. Firefly; if it isnt, substitute your own name).
|
||
For archive copies of Edupage or Update, gopher to educom.edu or look at our WWW
|
||
server: URL: http://educom.edu/. To communicate with Edupage or Educom, send
|
||
mail to comments@educom.edu or info@educom.edu.
|
||
|
||
Federal Reserve Board
|
||
---------------------
|
||
Refer to US Federal Reserve Board.
|
||
|
||
FEN
|
||
---
|
||
http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/finance/feat/FEN.html
|
||
To obtain a subscription to the Journal of Financial Abstracts (JFA), send a
|
||
request to Professor Wayne Marr, JFA, 307 Monaco Circle, Clemson, SC 29631,
|
||
Phone/Fax 803-653-5516 or E-mail: Marrm@clemson.edu.
|
||
The JFA database can be accessed directly at
|
||
gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:10672/11m/fen/absjfa
|
||
|
||
Financial Services Mall
|
||
-----------------------
|
||
gopher://financial.savvy.com:port 70/
|
||
A service aimed at the consumer with access to Chemical Bank loans information,
|
||
credit card offers, a number of publication subscription offers including the
|
||
Wall Street Journal and Barrons. Basically this is a marketing operation with
|
||
the exception that there is a database of Holts Stock Market Reports. Contact
|
||
Eliot Price at eliot@savvy.com for further information.
|
||
|
||
Financial Services Technology Consortium
|
||
----------------------------------------
|
||
http://www.llnl.gov:80/fstc/
|
||
The FSTC is a consortium of financial services providers, national laboratories,
|
||
universities, and government agencies whose goal is to enhance the
|
||
competitiveness of the United States financial services industry.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FINweb
|
||
------
|
||
http://finweb.bus.utexas.edu/finweb.html
|
||
A server of information of interest to economists and finance researchers.
|
||
|
||
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
|
||
--------------------------------
|
||
Refer to the entry Personal Finance for the misc.invest.funds and misc.invest
|
||
FAQ addresses.
|
||
|
||
Futures Newsletter
|
||
------------------
|
||
Refer to the Newsletter entry.
|
||
|
||
Germany
|
||
-------
|
||
http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/AG/JWGI/JWGIhome.html
|
||
The German Investment Club.
|
||
|
||
Interfinance Limited
|
||
--------------------
|
||
http://intergroup.com:80/interfinance/
|
||
Financial Consultants to Commerce and Industry. They publish their newsletters
|
||
on the Web and have a forms application for applying for financing.
|
||
|
||
Internet Personal Finance Letter
|
||
--------------------------------
|
||
Refer to the Personal Finance entry.
|
||
|
||
ITU statistical database
|
||
------------------------
|
||
gopher://info.itu.ch/
|
||
|
||
Market Beat
|
||
-----------
|
||
Refer to the Newsletter entry.
|
||
|
||
Markets and Investments
|
||
-----------------------
|
||
http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Economy/Markets_and_Investments/
|
||
A server of investment information with many familiar links to services such as
|
||
Edgar and Newsletters. It also has links to Usenet investment groups.
|
||
|
||
The Mining Channel
|
||
------------------
|
||
http://www.wimsey.com/Magnet/mc/index5.html
|
||
Provides information about publicly quoted mining companies, mostly active in
|
||
the North American countries. A useful service which is destined to be copied
|
||
for many industries.
|
||
|
||
Nasdaq Financial Executive
|
||
--------------------------
|
||
http://www.law.cornell.edu/nasdaq/nasdtoc.html
|
||
A quarterly joint publication of the NASDAQ and Cornell University.
|
||
|
||
Netnews Filtering Service
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
A Stanford university database group provides an email service where you specify
|
||
the topics which interest you . A customised abstract is sent regularly to you.
|
||
Articles of interest can be retrieved using WAIS.
|
||
netnews@db.stanford.edu
|
||
|
||
NETworth
|
||
--------
|
||
http://networth.galt.com/www/home/start.htm
|
||
http://networth.galt.com/www/home/capital/captlst.htm
|
||
An electronic magazine which gives information on prospectuses, newsletters of a
|
||
few funds, and Morningstars fund analysis. Marketing information is also
|
||
included.
|
||
|
||
Nelson Capital Management
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
http://www.internex.net/NCM/home.html
|
||
The company manages fixed income portfolios.
|
||
|
||
Newsletters
|
||
-----------
|
||
Colloquium
|
||
----------
|
||
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/colloquium
|
||
The Colloquium newsletter. This is a digest of stock tips for investment
|
||
managers.
|
||
|
||
Corporate Reports Stories
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
gopher://cns.cscns.com/11/News%20and%20Information/Corporate%20Report%20Online/
|
||
|
||
DowVision
|
||
---------
|
||
http://dowvision.wais.net:5554/dv.html
|
||
has articles from Dow Jones publications.
|
||
|
||
The Economist
|
||
-------------
|
||
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/economist
|
||
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
|
||
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
|
||
prove of some use.
|
||
|
||
Financial World
|
||
---------------
|
||
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/financial_world
|
||
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
|
||
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
|
||
prove of some use.
|
||
|
||
Paul C.Y. Huang
|
||
---------------
|
||
http://www.quote.com/newsletters/huang/
|
||
Paul C.Y. Huang publishes a short newsletter on futures markets.
|
||
|
||
Inc.
|
||
----
|
||
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/inc
|
||
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
|
||
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
|
||
prove of some use.
|
||
|
||
Individual Investor
|
||
-------------------
|
||
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/ii
|
||
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
|
||
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
|
||
prove of some use.
|
||
|
||
Market Beat
|
||
-----------
|
||
http://www.quote.com/newsletters/petruno/
|
||
The Market Beat newsletter.
|
||
|
||
NASDAQ Financial Executive Journal
|
||
----------------------------------
|
||
http://www.law.cornell.edu/nasdaq/nasdtoc.html
|
||
|
||
Short On Value
|
||
--------------
|
||
http://www.quote.com/newsletters/short-on-value/
|
||
The Short On Value stock tips newsletter.
|
||
|
||
Wired
|
||
-----
|
||
http://www.wired.com/
|
||
A Web server with all the articles which appeared in Wired. They are WAIS
|
||
searchable. Wired regularly has articles dealing with high technology and
|
||
finance.
|
||
|
||
Worth
|
||
-----
|
||
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/worth
|
||
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
|
||
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
|
||
prove of some use.
|
||
|
||
Refer also to the NETworth and Personal Finance entries.
|
||
|
||
New Patent Applications
|
||
-----------------------
|
||
http://town.hall.org/patent/patent.html
|
||
A WAIS searchable database of 1994 US patents.
|
||
|
||
Personal Finance
|
||
----------------
|
||
http://gnn.interpath.net/gnn/meta/finance/index.html
|
||
GNN Personal Finance. A collection of information for the small investor. Also
|
||
has the Usenet group misc.invest.funds FAQ. Refer to the entry below.
|
||
|
||
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/jdg/www/invest.html
|
||
A list of Web sites from John Greiner. Very extensive.
|
||
|
||
Internet Personal Finance Letter
|
||
To subscribe, send an email to pfl-request@umassd.edu with the message SUBSCRIBE
|
||
PFL <firstname> <lastname>
|
||
|
||
http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/finance/res/mfq.html
|
||
The Usenet group misc.invest.funds frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is
|
||
available on the Web.
|
||
|
||
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/investment-faq/general/top.ht
|
||
ml
|
||
The Usenet group misc.invest frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is available
|
||
on the Web. Refer also to the Misc.invest Archive in the Stock Quotes entry
|
||
below.
|
||
|
||
gopher://unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca/0INFO.MISC.INVEST.CANADA
|
||
The Usenet group misc.invest.canada frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is
|
||
available on the Web.
|
||
|
||
Products
|
||
--------
|
||
http://www.xerox.com/show/banking.html
|
||
Xerox Corporation series of documents on their products for the financial
|
||
industry
|
||
|
||
RiskNet
|
||
-------
|
||
http://finweb.bus.utexas.edu/riskweb.html
|
||
A Risk and Insurance information server.
|
||
|
||
SEC filings
|
||
-----------
|
||
http://www.town.hall.org/edgar/edgar.html
|
||
A WAIS searchable database of 1994 US Securities and Exchange Commission
|
||
filings. Also known as EDGAR.
|
||
|
||
Short On Value
|
||
--------------
|
||
Refer to the Newsletter entry.
|
||
|
||
Software
|
||
--------
|
||
Koblas Currency Converter
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
http://www.ora.com/cgi-bin/ora/currency
|
||
The Koblas Currency Converter converts many currencies using recent exchange
|
||
rates.
|
||
|
||
Misc.invest Archive
|
||
-------------------
|
||
ftp://dg-rtp.dg.com/pub/misc.invest
|
||
This is an archive run by Ed Savage and contains historical quotes on stocks,
|
||
funds, options, and exchange-rates. There are also documents and programs of
|
||
interest to investors.
|
||
|
||
Stock Quotes
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
Holts Stock Market Reports
|
||
---------------------------
|
||
gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/11/holt
|
||
telnet://guest@a2i.rahul.net/n/Current System Information/Market Report
|
||
These reports are generated at the close of business at the NYSE and you can
|
||
have them emailed to you automatically by George Holt (holt@pnet.com). An
|
||
excellent free service.
|
||
|
||
QuoteCom
|
||
--------
|
||
http://www.quote.com/
|
||
QuoteCom are offering free quotes on Internet. The stock prices are
|
||
time-delayed by 15 minutes and you have to pay a modest amount for most of the
|
||
information. A number of financial newsletters are provided. Check out our
|
||
interview in Section 5 with QuoteComs founder, Chris Cooper.
|
||
|
||
MIT Experimental Stock Database
|
||
-------------------------------
|
||
http://www.ai.mit.edu/stocks.html
|
||
This is an experimental page that currently provides a link to the latest stock
|
||
market information. It is updated automatically, usually between 10:00 p.m. EDT
|
||
and 1:00 a.m. EDT, from an email source in California to reflect the current
|
||
days closing information. It consists of general market news and quotes for
|
||
selected stocks. Not all stocks are included here.
|
||
|
||
ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/stocks/results/
|
||
You can also ftp a directory of historical datafiles extracted and used to draw
|
||
these graphs
|
||
|
||
Security APL Quote Server
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
http://www.secapl.com/secapl/quoteserver/sp500.html
|
||
Has quotes on most US. stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and some futures products.
|
||
It also graphs the S & P 500 and the DJIA.
|
||
|
||
US. Commodities and futures
|
||
----------------------------
|
||
ftp://192.100.81.119/pub/pierre/invest/data
|
||
A database of historical quote information. Refer also to the US Agricultural
|
||
Department statistics entry.
|
||
|
||
Misc.invest Archive
|
||
-------------------
|
||
ftp://dg-rtp.dg.com/pub/misc.invest
|
||
This is an archive run by Ed Savage and contains historical quotes on stocks,
|
||
funds, options, and exchange-rates. There are also documents and programs of
|
||
interest to investors.
|
||
|
||
Vienna Stock Exchange
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telnet://boerse@fiivs01.tu-graz.ac.at/
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This exchange provides a series of historical quotes for the stocks traded on
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the exchange.
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Sweden
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http://www.luth.se/~peppar/financial.html
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Trade Information
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http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/nav/trade.html
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Has a database of international trade law.
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Refer also to the entry US Commerce Department statistics
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US Agricultural Department statistics
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gopher://calypso.oit.unc.edu/7waissrc%3a/ref.d/indexes.d/agricultural-market-new
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s.srcCommodity reports can be obtained here.
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US Commerce Department statistics
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http://www.doc.gov/
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Contains information on Spot exchange rates, US and foreign CD and 3 month
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NAFTA information is also available at:
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gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/NAFTA
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gopher://cyfer.esusda.gov/11/ace/policy/nafta
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GATT information is also available at:
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http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/gatt/nav/toc.html
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gopher://gopher.counterpoint.com:2003/11/
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US. Commerce Business Daily has details of government contracts and sales
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US Federal Reserve Board
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gopher://town.hall.org/1/other/fed, or
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telnet://fedworld.gov/
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Statistics on the US banking industry, Interest rate data and G series data. US
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Government press releases
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telnet://fedworld.gov/
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FEDWORLD is a bulletin board provided by the US. government. It can also be
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accessed by ftp://fedworld.gov/
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gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/ebb/monetary/tenfx.frb
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Contains US daily spot rates from the Federal Reserve Bank.
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http://compstat.wharton.upenn.edu:8001/~siler/fedpage.html
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
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USENET Finance, Economics and Investment groups
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http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/finance/res/mfq.html
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The Usenet group misc.invest.funds frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is
|
||
available on the Web.
|
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|
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http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/investment-
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||
faq/general/top.html
|
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The Usenet group misc.invest frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is available
|
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on the Web. Refer also to the Misc.invest Archive in the Stock Quotes entry
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above.
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|
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gopher://unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca/0INFO.MISC.INVEST.CANADA
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The Usenet group misc.invest.canada frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is
|
||
available on the Web.
|
||
|
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Warehouse Mortgage
|
||
------------------
|
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http://www.internex.net/warehouse/home.html
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A US finance company. Serves information about their loan services.
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|
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World Bank database
|
||
-------------------
|
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http://www.worldbank.org/html/PIC.html, or
|
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gopher://gopher.worldbank.org/
|
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Extensive economic information and reports on individual economies and
|
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industries.
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|
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