REVIEW & ASSIGNMENT

• U.S. Internet growth is slowing
• 11 million Internet users are addicted
• AT&T to sell local phone service in New York
• AOL buys Tegic for T9 messaging
• Second paper review
• Last paper: Review a Web media property from a creative
  perspective | Due this week

MESSAGING

• Email: 7 trillion messages per year
• Free email: hotmail, yahoo, etc
• Free fax: efax, jfax
• Spam or UCE (Unsolicted Commercial Email)
  -- 30% is pornography, 30% get-rich-quick
• USPS thinks first class will peak in 2002, losing $17B by 2009
• Companies are filtering email to limit liability
• Email newsletters, eg Fidget
• Wireless cell and PDA push messages, eg Bloomberg and MSN
• HTML mail, eg Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk

INSTANT MESSAGING

• 40 million AOL instant messagers
  -- Microsoft and Yahoo try to horn in
• ICQ "I Seek You"

CHAT

• America Online
• Java and HTML Chat, eg TalkCity
• Video Chat, CUSEEME, "See You, See Me"

AUCTIONS

• EBay, Amazon, Yahoo!
• 1.2 million customers in 1998, 6.5 million in 2002

Next week: Multiplayer Games, The Online Talent Network

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• September 22
• September 29
• October 6
• October 13
• October 20
• October 27
• November 2
• November 10
• November 17
• November 24

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