The Bove and Rhodes Report
Insight on computers and media | by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes | Mar. 9, 1997
Sitting on Top of Internet World
This is our attempt to do some prep work before trying to answer the inevitable question, "what are the cool parties and technologies at this show?" Tony hopes to attend these events and look at these demos at Internet World next week in Los Angeles.
| Internet World, March 10-14 |
 | Los Angeles Convention Ctr. 500 exhibiting companies. |
| Internet World Exhibitors -- this is the master list. |
| Parties worth considering: |
| MKS, March 11 (5:30-7:30p) |
| House of Blues, 8439 Sunset Blvd. |
| Viper Room, 8852 Sunset Blvd. |
| Palace in Hollywood, 1735 North Vine. |
| OZONE, OZ Interactive's new 3D Internet entertainment community |
| House of Blues, 8439 Sunset Blvd. |
| A leader in virtual world chat. |
| Howard Stern Private Parts Rules/Sucks Party, March 13th (9p-2a) |
| 836 N. Highland between Melrose Ave and Santa Monica Bl., Hollywood. |
| Sponsored by Worldsite Networks |
| Visit booth #6228 to get your invite. |
| El Rey Theater, 5515 Willshire Blvd. |
| Internet World Magazine Industry Awards, March 14 (noon lunch) |
| Top of the news (companies likely to announce something significant): |
| Progressive Networks |
| New RealAudio, RealMedia, Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) |
| ParaGraph International |
| First VRML 2.0 authoring suite. |
| Integrated Data Systems |
| Version 2.0 of V-Realm Builder, a VRML 2.0 authoring tool. |
| Data Translation |
| Broadway 2.0 MPEG video system for streaming or downloading video on net/web, booth #6028. |
| StellarSoft |
| Privateline, a new secure e-mail program. |
| Live Picture |
| RealSpace combines net images with photo-spatial interactivity to create completely interactive, photo-spatial web worlds. |
| Macromedia |
| Launch of Director 6, leading authoring tool. |
| Apple |
| HotSauce, Cyberdog, servers, new Apple message, etc. |
| Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Netscape, Sun, and SGI likely to have announcements. For Macintosh-related news from the show floor, check out this. |
| These are the companies to check out (not sure of news value, but good for background): |
| If no web address is provided, the PR firm forgot to include it. I don't have time to check them all. |
| Astound |
| WebCast "push technology" offering, and WebCast Studio, an authoring tool that allows webmasters to create channels. |
| BackWeb Technologies |
| Personalized broadcast channels. |
| Bluestone |
| Sapphire/Web is Java-to-database development tool. |
| Black Sun Interactive |
| VRML pioneer, turns web sites into 3D communities. |
| FireFly Network, Inc. |
| Collaborative filtering software. |
| ichat, Inc. |
| Web chat tool. |
| Individual, Inc. |
| A preview of First! Intranet 3.0, the next version of its corporate news and information service. |
| Intel |
| Lotus |
| Domino, new Java stuff will be there. |
| Net Nanny Software |
| Net Nanny filtering software. |
| PointCast, Inc. |
| Broadcasts news and information, leading "push" technology. |
| Pragmatica |
| Products for HTML developers. |
| Skunk Technologies |
| Entao is a Java-based net operating system with business-oriented Java applets for implementing information systems. |
| SoftQuad |
| WebFiler Interactive, an update to HoTMetaL PRO 3.0 adding site management, and HoTMetaL Intranet Publisher (HiP). |
| StorageTek |
| i:drive is a new remote Internet storage service for personal computers. |
| Booth #2603 |
| TGS |
| 3Space Publisher, a new 3D design and animation tool for web, CD-ROM, and desktop publishing. |
| Vosaic L.L.C. |
| Vosaic Audio for Java, a pure Java-based sound streaming system using the global ITU standard, GSM audio. |
| Xing Technology Corp. |
| digital audio and video on the web |
| These are the conference sessions to check out: |
| The Red Herring Internet Entrepreneur Forum |
| Microsoft Active Platform Developers Day |
| General Workshop: Developing with CyberDog and Hot Sauce |
| VRML World Developer Day |
| Sun/Java Developer Day |
| Keynote speakers worth watching: |
| Gil Amelio, Apple |
| Rob Glaser, Progressive Networks |
| Microsoft Active Platform Pavilion |
| Netscape Partner Pavilion |
| Sponsors (magazines etc.): |
| ADWEEK |
| Mecklermedia (producers of show): |
| Internet World |
| iworld |
| Web Developer |
| WebWeek |
Be seeing you...
-- Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes, Mar. 9, 1997. Comments?
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