From: Gleanings
To: surfers
Subject: Gleanings: 1-click elephants?

OPENING THANG
Peterme complains about TiVo's ads in his sept. 18th entry, and I think he's right
http://peterme.com/

why would a company not publicize their most valuable quality in favor of presenting a feeling/mood/attitude?

IA MATTERS

tog writes about the elephant in your livingroom. funny and often quite accurate.
http://www.asktog.com/columns/039Elephant.html

APROPOS OF NOTHING

tiny drawing put on chips by playful engineers
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html

NEWS

MSNBC: Credit-card fraud has become a nightmare for e-merchants.
But in the world of Internet retailing, the customers are always right. As a
result, whether customers are ripping off merchants or have been victimized
themselves by credit-card thieves, it's the merchants who almost always end up losing money.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/462835.asp

USA Today: Apple licenses Amazon's 1-Click.
''Right now Apple and Amazon are the only two companies in the world that use
this technology,'' said Mitch Mandich, Apple senior vice president of
worldwide sales. ''Amazon claims they have a patent, and so we didn't want to
do anything that could infringe on the patent.''
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti553.htm