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AM: Snap! is official, (more) auction news, (more) Internet advertising privacy concerns
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CNETlaunches AOL rival Snap! Online
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 22 (Reuter) - CNET Inc, the computer
network, is set to launch on Monday its free Snap! Online
service for consumers, with a bevvy of distribution partners.
Snap! Online, which CNET announced a few months ago, has
been designed to help internet service providers (ISPs) become
more competitive with America Online Inc .
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SeaChange Streamlines Ad Delivery With Seamless Connection to Avid Technology's Media
Composer System
MAYNARD, Mass., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- SeaChange International, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SEAC), the leader in digital ad insertion, today announced that its
SPOT System can now connect directly to Avid Technology, Inc.'s digital
nonlinear video editing system, Media Composer. Newly developed serial
digital connectivity enables TV operators to link Avid's editing product with
the SeaChange System to streamline the production and delivery of commercials,
without the time and quality loss due to video tape transfer.
SeaChange can be found on the Internet at: http://www.schange.com.
SOURCE SeaChange International
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B-to-B Internet Auctioning Big, Segal Tells Chicago BMA
CHICAGO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet auctioning, especially in the
business-to-business arena, is the next big industry developing on the
Internet, said business marketing expert Richard A. Segal Jr. today during his
address to the Chicago Business Marketing Association.
Segal specifically cited Boston-based FairMarket Inc. as a prime example
of the opportunities that exist in this arena. FairMarket is a centralized,
open marketplace for sellers and buyers of excess semiconductors and computer
products. FairMarket's operative model is an auction where sellers of
semiconductors and computer products list excess inventories for sale on
FairMarket's World Wide Web site (www.fairmarket.com). At regularly scheduled
FairMarket auctions, buyers engage in real-time, open bidding.
SOURCE Hensley Segal Rentschler, Inc.
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New Web Advertising System Could Threaten Individuals' Privacy, Inter@ctive
Week Reports
GARDEN CITY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1997--An attempt to identify
individual Internet users to Web sites they visit is the latest threat to privacy on
the Internet, according to articles in today's online edition of Inter@ctive Week
and the Sept. 22 print edition. According to the Inter@ctive Week reports, a
system now being marketed to some of the world's largest Internet service
providers and backed by leading advertising brokers would automatically reveal
the identities of Internet users when they visit Web sites that feature advertisements
placed on them by Imgis Inc. of Costa Mesa, Calif. Imgis computers would use
those identities to match ads with individual consumers' tastes, combing through
massive marketing databases.
Though Imgis officials insist they will not keep tabs on where people go in
cyberspace, privacy advocates worry that the system will lead to such abuse.
Officials at the company pledged to respond with a detailed privacy policy
after Inter@ctive Week reported privacy advocates' concerns. Netcom On-Line
Communication Services Inc. said it had already rejected the Imgis system on the
grounds that it posed unacceptable privacy risks.
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Mitch Arnowitz marnowitz@morino.org Advertising/Marketing Discussion Group
Business Development http://netpreneur.org/connect/am
PKW Netpreneur Program v 703.620.8971
http://netpreneur.org f 703.620.4102
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