Stories about: GeoCities

Representatives of nearly a dozen anti-pornography organizations will meet with U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft this week, hoping to persuade him to step up the U.S. Department of Justice's prosecution of obscenity cases, an area they say was all but ignored during the Clinton administration.

I've just learned that my Windows Me Secrets co-author, Davis Straub, recently set a new world record for miles flown in a hang glider. Smashing the 10-year-old record of 308 miles, he launched his glider from Zapata County, Texas, and landed 347 miles later (as the co-author flies) in Sterling County, Texas. The details of his adventure can be read at davisstraub.com/OZ/Ozv4n155.htm.

Kenneth harvey never intended to confuse shoppers when he registered the domain name Walmartcanadasucks.com. The 38-year-old writer from Newfoundland says he just wanted to get under Wal-Mart's skin. After all, Wal-Mart had already convinced an international arbitrator to strip him of the Walmartcanada.com domain, without compensating him for the $70 registration fee.

Iamasia (Interactive Audience Measurement Asia) last week released its report on home Internet user behavior in Hong Kong.

Intuit, maker of Quicken and QuickBooks accounting and financial management software, Monday asked small businesses to turn to Intuit's newly announced Site Solutions Web site creation and management service.

We all deserve to tell our life stories. And if you want to preserve the tale for generations, where else but on the Internet?

E-businesses that are too grasping in claims to ownership of their customers' content may find themselves holding a tiger by the tail.

Of all the interesting companies I saw at NetWorld+Interop 2000 in Las Vegas last week, one of the most compelling was a startup called LinkGuard, a U.K. company that is setting out to eradicate all broken links on the Web.

Passive job candidates - those who aren't looking for something new but would receptively listen to a great offer - remain the most highly prized catch by recruiters.

If I give you a free hammer, you might be a little upset if later I told you it came with the condition that I own anything you make with it. But that's the way e-businesses are thinking of the ‘free' tools they provide on the Internet.

It's May 1995: You're using browser-based chat, available only at online community Theglobe.com, to chat with a friend in Australia. You submit a message to the public chat board, then hit reload about 20 seconds later to see if she's responded. Of all the posts made in that time, you see one near the top with a purple cartoon icon. It's her reply. You come back often. You become part of a valuable asset - an audience Theglobe.com and the few other dedicated community sites can sell to their advertisers.