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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cm who wrote (6672)	5/5/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: doormouse	Respond to of 11417

cm, please tell me i'm not losing my mind. There is NO PLACE on their download page to download the app. The only hot link is to fill out a form to get the app on CD in 2-4 weeks. Can you help me find this bloody file...? thanks, .k

To: cm who wrote (6672)	5/5/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: doormouse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

20 minutes later,,, I FOUND IT! It's a pretty page, but I can hardly believe how dumb an unforgiveably non-standard way HP's page designer chose to be the link to actually download. (Mebbe I'm nuts, but total elapsed time to find the actual download link was > 30 minutes,,, I've probably downloaded 10000 files in my life,,, this is the dumbest.) Anybody else care to try...? bye, .k Well, anyway, I look forward to trying the app. Neat [simple] idea.

To: cm who wrote (6672)	5/6/1999 10:17:00 AM
From: cm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Digital TV and Free PCs... Found an excellent resource site for DTV. It's the Miller-Freeman publishing site at digitaltelevision.com. Excellent primer on the technologies and opportunities. Plus, some juicy bits about the high costs of pay-per-TV theft of service, etc. Now, a little rumination about Free PCs. As we all know, there's a company giving away Free PCs in exchange for demographic information. And, as we all have heard speculated, AOL has been rumored to be contemplating some sort of Free PC scheme in exchange for commitments to premium levels of service. Well, I'd like to argue that Procter & Gamble, one of the world's largest advertisers, should be in the business of giving away Free PCs. A P & G executive stood before a significant gathering of online advertising luminaries last year and issued a challenge. He implored those gathered to come up with ways to make online advertising micro-targetable, trackable, and measurable. Were I P & G, I'd be scrambling to encourage OEMs to adopt WAVX technology. Because the WaveMeter delivers all the things that P & G--and any advertiser worth their salt--is looking for. On another note, for obvious reasons, I am very interested in HP Ann Livermore's comments about progressive business arrangements that they are considering... including revenue sharing/transaction participation. (One of my first posts on this thread was about Ann Livermore and how HP was going to be making a huge push into the e-commerce space... and how she is seen as a person on the move within the HP culture.) And, finally, a question for those who know: When we think of microtransactions, we think of little fees going from consumer to publisher or service in exchange for content. Is it possible that, a little like the Cybergold patented business model, that my Wave account could be ADDED to by taking certain actions... thus reversing the flow of the transaction? In other words, in classic permission marketing terms, could I earn a little micropayment for doing certain things... and could WAVX technology be used to enable this? That said, I know of several pay-for-action compensation schemes and business models. But, I'm just curious. Incidentally, a guy named Goldhaber founded Cybergold, the company with the patented "pay for attention" business model. And, if I'm not mistaken, that Goldhaber is related to Michael Goldhaber, the man who, through a 5-part series in Wired some years back, coined the phrase "the attention economy." That set of articles is a wonderful read because it points out that the real currency online is "attention." Best Regards, c m