To: PartyTime who wrote (11686 ) 7/31/1998 4:21:00 PM From: PartyTime Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18444
Ah, the heck with it. Aleta, you don't have to ask Zulu skeptics those questions (ironically, I wonder how you would have answered them two months ago). Obviously, no Zulu skeptic is going to describe Zulu as Best in Class. They don't want to. But since someone did, here's a little bit about the entity that did, in fact, describe Doubleclick, Flycast and Zulu as Best in Class: Internet World Conference to Focus on Partnerships, Commerce (7/14) By AIMEE PICCHI c.1998 Bloomberg News CHICAGO -- Alliances between Internet, media and technology companies and the growth of electronic commerce will be the focus of this week's Internet World summer conference, one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. Mecklermedia Corp., publisher of Internet World magazine and the event's sponsor, expects to draw as many as 22,000 people to Chicago's McCormick Place for the Wednesday-to-Friday trade show. Recent alliances between media and Internet companies prompted the conference's focus on such partnerships, Mecklermedia Chairman Alan Meckler said. General Electric Co.'s NBC, for instance, invested in Internet-based news company Cnet Inc. last month, and Walt Disney Co. bought a stake in Internet search directory Infoseek Corp. ''Alliances are key,'' Meckler said. ''Most companies realize it's too big for anyone alone.'' More than 200 companies will have exhibits. Speakers will include Sprint Chairman William Esrey; Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America; and John Patrick, vice president of Internet technology for International Business Machines Corp. Lycos Inc. President Robert Davis will give a keynote speech Friday. Companies also will be making announcements about new technology, especially products that help electronic commerce. IBM plans to discuss new electronic-commerce alliances with several companies, and Sprint will talk about its upgraded security for private Internet networks, Meckler said. Westport, Connecticut-based Mecklermedia publishes the weekly magazine Internet World and holds its Internet World trade shows several times a year, the largest of which attracts more than 50,000 people.