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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Craig Jacobs who wrote (8065)	11/28/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: Mike Fredericks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13157

Amazon.com doesn't ask for your information until they need it to send you something. Once someone orders something, then it's obvious that they'll want to provide the personal information. At that point, the software should enable "type once, use many times" if the users desire. However, asking for the personal info up front isn't that good of an idea, IMO. And just coincidentally, I had 60 minutes on this evening and they had a thing on internet privacy. They said that 50% of people, when confronted with sites that ask for their personal information, just leave. An additional 25% of the people provide false information just so they can get in. So, if HyperTV is like the rest of internet sites, we're driving away half our potential customers, and of the data we do get, half of it is a bunch of lies. So there's no way to know what data is good and what data is bad, so it's hard to use. -Mike