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Evening Internet: note 434 - ICQ and other animals
Better late than never
Proverb
The current break in the output of the evening Internet was the longest and most painful in the history of the publication. For which I am an apologize to the reader, countlessly. A strip of troubles that comprehended me during the reporting period, in width threatened to equal the conditional river of absolute love . I do not dare to bore the reader by listing all those evidence of the Merfi Main Law that I received in the last couple of weeks, limit myself to the statement: so many freelance situations and force majeure at once, in one limited period of time I - as an old -timer in my own short life - and I will not mention.
Be that as it may, adverse circumstances demanded overcoming, and we can say with careful optimism that they were in the end overcome. The consequence of which is the current release of the evening Internet. Dedicated, as it is easy to guess, to the review of all the events that occurred on the network and around the network, as long as I fought with my force majeure. So, the current note is about the events of the last couple of weeks.
| ICQ99 on the way |
Mirabilis began testing the new alpha version of the ICQ client . This alpha is not intended for wide public use, and therefore its distribution is protected on the manufacturer’s server. Of course, there were agile partisans, in whom curiosity overpowered natural caution, and they allowed the alpha version into an open swimming, laying out its copies on their own servers. I warn those users who want to unload and put this alpha: before installing a new version, you should read the instructions and take all precautions in the sense of Backup.
Here are a few addresses at which the ICQ99A installation for Windows 95/98/NT is available at the time of the Scripture of the current note:
- http://www.icq.com/pub/preview/icq99a.exe [🔗] [password]
- http://www.cityline.ru/vi/tools/icq99a.exe [🔗]
- http://icq.pcenter.ru/icq99a.exe [🔗]
- ftp://193.233.3.108/shpunt/icq99a/icq99a.exe [🔗] [limited access]
The legitimate question begs: whether it is worth rushing and setting yourself this rather unstable realization. Are these troubles justified by the set of new opportunities that are added to it?
For me personally, the following functions seemed useful to me in the new realization:
- The indexed base of all accepted and sent messages, with the search, for the entire existence of the ICQ client on this machine
- The possibility of sorting a contact list by categories and groups
- Integration with www : search interface and bookmarks
It is clear that these capabilities of ICQ are not necessary for everyone, and not everywhere, and not always equally acute. Many users can be easier and more calmly wait for a more stable public realiz.
| The fifth explorer - forward and with a song |
If you unload and put a new ICQ alpha - work for half an hour for an ordinary modem user, then with the first public beta the fifth explorer will have to be tinned longer. In the most minimal configuration, the novelty weighs 16 megabytes, and it has to be loaded through the ActiveSetup module . In such cases, I usually expect the emergence of a disk version from the manufacturer or his voluntary rally assistants (which, unfortunately, recently began to spread the distributions of free Internet software with pre -installed Back Orifice or CIH , which greatly reduces the value of this channel for programs). Or I agree with the administrator of some local network so that he downloaded one installation package on all. It is clear that the current beta is not the last, to the final Riz we reinstall the fifth explorer, countless times will have to be countless. In any case, I recommend that the reader get acquainted with the Features list , for he is impressive.
| Ekhonet on the march |
The transmission of an echo , at the radio station of the Echo of Moscow, has its own site. It should be noted that this radio station has always acted as a pioneer in the integration of network technologies with etheric: it was the Echo that had the first site amongMoscow radio stations , the first broadcasting channel in Realaudio , the first daily transmission of the Internet (since the spring of 1998). And on November 2, this program also opened its own site. With a serious intention to build a new type on its basis, where the capabilities of ether and the Internet are closely integrated. Not just information about what waves can be listened to, and not the announcement of the nearest release, but a full -fledged channel for direct bilateral communication between broadcasters and the target (network) audience. From the last innovations of this site - the usenet conferences , executed by a living classic and a carbister of all Russia . It remains only to congratulate Genkin and Poyshchev on this undertaking, and to wish them growth and development.
In this regard, I draw the reader's attention to an interview , which was given to the Moscow forum by the editor -in -chief of the weekly results Sergei Parkhomenko. In fact, in this interview for the first time the position of the traditional media, which does not understand, was clearly voiced, the Internet version surrendered to him. The question of the media magnate was asked: what will I have from this, except for headache?
Poyshchev and Genkin will have to give an intelligible and visual answer to this question within the same media holding. Nothing convinces the skeptics of the use of the Internet, like visual examples of someone else's success.
| Russian Internet is growing Siberia |
As long as I fought with force majeure in one individual life, in Novosibirsk the internet festival 98 [🔗] and the business site 98 [🔗] . And in that and in another event I intended to participate, even two of my seminars were declared there, but, unfortunately, the flu made sad adjustments to these my plans. So the reports of the past event [🔗] should be expected from more successful participants. The list of winners of the competition is available here [🔗] , and you can find many of our old acquaintances: Rosbusinessconsulting [🔗] , Finmarket [🔗 🔗 🔗] , catalog of business information [🔗] from Mbit, Prime-Tass [🔗] , arsenal [🔗] , yandex [🔗] , ixbt [🔗] , urban cat [🔗] Price.ru [🔗] , assets [🔗] , Russart [🔗 🔗] , Hackzone [🔗 🔗 🔗] , Cinema News [🔗] from Max Smolev ... a list of sites that divided the 21 prize and 17 diplomas, brought me to two conclusions: on the one hand, you can’t reward all, and this is sad; On the other hand, if you arrange more such competitions, then in the end no one will leave offended ... Some of the readers may seem more interesting and substantial not a list of winners, but a general list of participants for six nominations, where more than 500 links to a wide variety of resources, Russian and non-Russian ones are collected:
- Finance and economics [🔗] [56 sites]
- Best Corporate Site [🔗] [123 sites]
- Advertising and exhibition business [🔗] [45 sites]
- The best reference and information site [🔗] [146 sites]
- Goods and services, including e -commerce [🔗 🔗] [111 sites]
- Special nomination [🔗] [36 sites]
| Other seminars and contests |
In continuation of the conversation about Internet tests and competitions, it is worth mentioning several events, previous and future.
- At the Soros competition for electronic publishing projects, the deadline for filing applications is extended until November 12 inclusive.
- Large international corporations in the Russian sector of the Internet went to Rocytes E. The performance of Maria Korbut, who represented the TNT postal delivery service, was quite amusing. This service has a lot of Russian customers, but there is no own Russian site, and even individual Russian -speaking pages on the international website are not expected by the end of 1999. It is assumed that Russian users will be able to successfully use the head American server. Honestly, such a formulation of the question seems quite meaningful to me. At least it’s better not to have any Russian page than to have bad ...
- On the server of the citizens, the publication of materials from the Summer Conference Internet Marketing 98 continues. The text of the ten reports has already been published - however, it is not entirely clear in which order they are posted - clearly not in alphabetical and not in the chronological ... The June conference was very cognitive, and those participants who did not go for the speakers or the press paid for the entrance to the unexpected 300 dollars from the nose. So the current online publication of reports is a good gift for those who missed this event. Meanwhile, the indefatigable Alexei Salnikov is preparing to hold another similar conference on December 8. True, I have not found the announcement of the citizens' server yet, I am based on his personal certificate.
| In the footsteps of previous issues |
It seems that the epic with the publication of Kroshka.ru [🔗] recently received a logical conclusion in the Happy End genre. In a letter to the Banners sheet of October 24 [🔗], the notorious Dmitry Kryukov [🔗] listed the consequences of this article for Rambler [🔗] . Quote:
- According to my data, the RAMBLER project as a result has made: an increase in attendance [🔗] by 15%
- An increase in advertising orders [🔗] by 12%
- Official letter of apology from Dmitri Mendreliuk [🔗]
At least once during the week the site of the Rambler search engine is visited by an average of about 100 thousand Muscovites.
Unfortunately, online the text of the Gallovo study is not available today. However, I will reproduce data on the size of the Internet audience in Moscow:
Thousands of people | % of Muscovites | |
Weekly Reach | 436.2 | 6.2 |
Daily Reach (general) | 237.9 | 3.4 |
Daily Reach (weekdays) | 248.8 | 3.6 |
Daily Reach (weekend) | 199.2 | 2.9 |
(When calculating the total population of Moscow, only adults of the city took the basis - over 16 years old.)
Regarding the IP-Targeting, the long-awaited explanations were received from Anton Voskresensky, the head of the advertising network of the Russian Linkexchange [🔗] . The namesake was not too lazy to send a link to press-releise [🔗] , where this service was first announced.
Anton reports: about the experience of previous campaigns using targeting in this network:
There were campaigns with targeting in Moscow (there were most of these - about 10), there were 4 campaigns in Peter and 3 campaigns with targeting for America and Europe.
To date, RLE is the only Russian advertising network whose users are offered such a service. Previously, Targeting was practiced in a deceased satellite with Leonid Delitsyn, but, unfortunately, he did not inform me of any information about previous successes.
The topic of emigration has found a worthy continuation in the guest book of Vi [🔗] , where in the last two weeks the most diverse aspects of life abroad have been discussed - from taxes to education and healthcare. In the last issue of Moscow news [🔗 🔗], this topic [🔗] also turned out to be the central [🔗] .
I don’t want to write anything about the trial against Microsoft in the current issue, I invite the reader to monitor the development of events based on the press. On the ZDNET website there are very pleasant lists of witnesses of the prosecution and defense , by which you can monitor how prosecutors and lawyers shoot their cartridges. The development of this plot of Zavalishin comments in sufficient detail, which is becoming more and more interesting to me to read every day. Therefore, I leave the reader in his pleasant society.