A preview of how people will be using corporate Web sites in about 5 years:

University Web Sites Hot As Fall Semester Nears
For those serving the education markets, Nielsen//NetRatings reports that traffic to education and university Web sites jumped 34 percent to nearly 3.3 million Web surfers at-home during the week ending July 14, as students gear up for fall semester.

"University Web sites have really evolved from simple informational sites," said

HISPANIC POPULATION GROWS ON WEBbrbrWeb surfers of Hispanic origin are the fastest growing at-home ethnic group on the Internet, according to a recent report from Nielsen/NetRatings.brbrNearly 7.6 million Hispanics accessed the Web in June, a 13-percent year-over-year boost. With the increase, Hispanics now represent seven percent of the total online population and the third largest ethnic group online, behind Caucasians (nearly 90 percent) and African Americans (7.4 percent).brbrWeb surfers of ... Continue Reading

HISPANIC POPULATION GROWS ON WEB

Web surfers of Hispanic origin are the fastest growing at-home ethnic group on the Internet, according to a recent report from Nielsen/NetRatings.

Nearly 7.6 million Hispanics accessed the Web in June, a 13-percent year-over-year boost. With the increase, Hispanics now represent seven percent of the total online population and the third largest ethnic group online, behind Caucasians (nearly 90 percent) and African Americans (7.4 percent).


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bWeb services update/b br /The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) project announced that the UDDI Business Registry (UBR) is now compliant with version 2 of the UDDI specification. The UBR contains public UDDI nodes that provide businesses a uniform way to describe their services, discover other companies' services, and understand the methods necessary to conduct e-business with a particular company. ... Continue Reading

Web services update
The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) project announced that the UDDI Business Registry (UBR) is now compliant with version 2 of the UDDI specification. The UBR contains public UDDI nodes that provide businesses a uniform way to describe their services, discover other companies' services, and understand the methods necessary to conduct e-business with a particular company.
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a href="http://www.jabber.com/products/web.shtml"Jabber WebClient/a p class="snip"The Jabber WebClient is an easy to use, cross platform instant messaging client. It is designed to let users participate in Jabber IM communities using their web browsers and without installing client-side software. Messages pass seamlessly through network firewalls, using a standard Netscape or Microsoft browser./p ... Continue Reading

Jabber WebClient

The Jabber WebClient is an easy to use, cross platform instant messaging client. It is designed to let users participate in Jabber IM communities using their web browsers and without installing client-side software. Messages pass seamlessly through network firewalls, using a standard Netscape or Microsoft browser.

There is still a lot of opportunity for those that wish to localize content and go through the review process that this takes: br / br /p class="snip"45 MILLION ONLINE IN CHINAbrbrAn estimated 45 million Chinese are now using the Internet, even as the country's government tries to police what it considers subversive content. The Communist Party's People's Daily in Beijing published the usage report, prepared by the Information Industry Ministry, the Associated Press reported. The average Chinese ... Continue Reading

There is still a lot of opportunity for those that wish to localize content and go through the review process that this takes:

45 MILLION ONLINE IN CHINA

An estimated 45 million Chinese are now using the Internet, even as the country's government tries to police what it considers subversive content. The Communist Party's People's Daily in Beijing published the usage report, prepared by the Information Industry Ministry, the Associated Press reported. The a

Here is a good article from Accountants Media Group, publishers of Accounting Technology Magazine, about integrating accounting systems with Internet technologies. There are some success stories, specific applications, ROI information, etc. brbra href="http://www.electronicaccountant.com/AccountingTechnology/index.cfm?txtFuse=dspShellContentfuseAction=DISPLAYnumContentID=9425numTaxonomyID=179"eLeaders Make the Web Work/a by Robert W. Scott. ... Continue Reading