The collaborative, early stages of the online medium encouraged sharing.
In particular, while face-to-face communication has its advantages, so does the online medium.
Microsoft simply has more experience with the online medium, so it's expected that their implementation of Live will be better.
But clearly, there are some markets made for the online medium, like the virtual auctions managed by eBay.
And the online medium provides opportunities for students to engage with one another from diverse demographic, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Finding emerging artists through photo logs may be a sexy use of the online medium, but Ms. Bekman said it's not the best.
It's what makes Ms. Hoffman and Mr. Novak such dogged investigators of all things Netly: they love to fiddle with the online medium.
An online medium with a sell-through rate of 55% can allow a 45% decrease in page views before eroding its ad revenue.
Charles Buchwalter, vice president for media research at NetRatings, said the adoption of the online medium by blue-chip companies appeared to be accelerating.
TECHNOLOGIES that can more or less determine an Internet user's physical location have long intrigued executives and others involved in the online medium.
Mr. Case, an archetypal Internet visionary, became famous for his grand notions of how the infant online medium would change the world.
