TOKYO, JAPAN, 1997 JUL 25 (NB) -- By Martyn Williams. This is a
roundup of new and updated resources and services on the global
Internet including: Internet live - sports weekend; Internet live
- Major League Baseball; Internet live - music weekend; Internet
live - live music chat on Sunday; maps on them; making e-mail
access easier; WhoWhere adds financial information; help for
mailing list administrators; corporate information links; testing
the blocking software; Family Central Web site; new Request For
Comments published; new software - WebSite director.
Internet Live - Sports Weekend
The Tour de France reaches its climax this weekend, with the end of
the race on Sunday. Catch it all daily from 3pm EDT (12pm PDT, 1900
UTC) at the first address. On Friday night, you can hear the
Orlando Predators vs. Nashville Kats in Arena Football, at 8pm EDT
(5pm PDT, 0000 UTC Saturday). On Saturday at 4:30pm EDT (1:30pm
PDT, 2030 UTC) you can hear North Texas vs. Long Beach State in Big
West Women's Volleyball. In the Continental Indoor Soccer League,
the Dallas Sidekicks play Washington Warthogs on Saturday at 7pm
EDT (4pm PDT, 2300 UTC) and Dallas Sidekicks play Houston Hotshots
on Sunday at 8pm EDT (5pm EDT, 0000 UTC Monday). World Wide Web:
http://www.audionet.com/sports/tourdefrance/ World Wide Web:
http://www.audionet.com/sports/arenafootball/predators/ World Wide
Web: http://www.audionet.com/radio/contemporary/crn/ World Wide
Web: http://www.audionet.com/sports/soccer/cisl/sidekicks/
Internet Live - Major League Baseball
This weekend in MLB action, it's the Baltimore Orioles vs.
Minnesota Twins on Friday at 8pm EDT (5pm PDT, 0000 UTC Saturday),
San Francisco Giants vs. Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday at 4pm EDT
(1pm PDT, 2000 UTC) and Texas Rangers vs. Chicago White Sox on
Sunday at 8pm EDT (5pm PDT, 0000 UTC Monday). World Wide Web:
http://www.audionet.com/sports/mlb/orioles/ World Wide Web:
http://www.audionet.com/sports/mlb/giants/ World Wide Web:
http://www.texasrangerslive.com/ World Wide Web:
http://www.audionet.com/sports/mlb/whitesox/
Internet Live - Music Weekend
The Warped Tour continues this weekend with coverage of the all-day
music event on Friday from New York and on Sunday from Washington,
DC. Both days, coverage begins at 3pm EDT (12pm PDT, 1900 UTC).
Sister 7 plays their eclectic mix of neo-hippy funk rock live from
Trees in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday night at 12:45am EDT Sunday
(9:45pm PDT, 0445 UTC). World Wide Web:
http://www.audionet.com/concerts/warped97/ World Wide Web:
http://www.audionet.com/concerts/trees/sister7/
Internet Live - Live Music Chat On Sunday
BRAD (Regan Hagar and Shawn Smith of Satchel and Stone Gossard of
Pearl Jam) and VERBOW (new album "Chronicles" produced by indie
legend Bob Mould) will be live online for Siren Spotlight this
Sunday, July 27th at 9pm EDT (6pm PDT, 0100 UTC Monday). The event
will include RealAudio and RealVideo live concert broadcasts,
online interviews and chats. World Wide Web:
http://www.sonymusic.com
Maps On Them!
The new Maps On Us site from Lucent Technologies lets users access
integrated maps, directions and yellow pages all-in-one. You can
set place markers for locations like your home, work of favorite
places; carry out route planning between two points with multiple
intermediate points; detailed maps of each turn; the choice of the
fastest or shortest route or to favor or avoid highways; and a
comprehensive yellow pages with more than 11 million entries
nationwide. A nice feature is text-to-speech processing that will
read you your route. World Wide Web: http://www.mapsonus.com
Making E-mail Access Easier
The Internet MailBox Company has unveiled some new additions to its
Web-based e-mail service. The centerpiece of this new suite of
services is iWebMail, a Web-based interface that allows access to
any POP3 email account, from anywhere, via the Internet.
Subscribers who can access the Web (e.g. from an airport kiosk,
cybercafe or somewhere else), can retrieve, view, delete and
respond to messages on any POP3 email account, anywhere. There's
also Routable Inbox which allows incoming messages to be delivered
anywhere, and the destination can be changed at anytime. The
service is subscription based. World Wide Web:
http://www.imailbox.com
WhoWhere Adds Financial Information
The WhoWhere e-mail directory has added the Reuters Investor
service to its Web site. The new service allows users to access to
research accurate, up-to-date information on the U.S. financial
market. The new content is part of the site's ambition to become
"the most complete, comprehensive and easy-to-use guide for
business professionals on the Internet." World Wide Web:
http://www.whowhere.com
Help For Mailing List Administrators
If you run a mailing list, or several, here's a new mailing list
for you. The E-Publisher's Digest is a free moderated discussion
list for the people behind them: list moderators, owners and
publishers. According to the moderator, "E-Publisher's Digest gives
e-publishers a place to go for assistance, information, and moral
support." The Web site has subscription details, but no archives.
World Wide Web: http://www.mmgco.com/e-pub/
Corporate Information Links
This is not a new site, it used to reside on a personal home page
on Netcom, but has greatly expanded and now has its own domain
name. The Corporate Information site has a vast amount of links to
all sorts of business and financial information resources on the
Internet. Everything is organized by nation and you can find
resources as diverse as information on the largest publicly traded
US companies and updates on the Tehran stock market. World Wide
Web: http://www.corporateinformation.com
Testing The Blocking Software
The Netly News has a page that allows people to run searches
through the databases of some of the major blocking software. The
page allows you to run a domain name and sub-directory through the
engine to see if they are blocked. SurfWatch also has a page which
lets users query its database to see what is and is not available.
World Wide Web:
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/spoofcentral/censored/ World Wide
Web: http://fido.siv.spyglass.com/testasite/
Family Central Web Site
The Family Central Web site is modeled after as a cyber-house and
uses everyday metaphors to make it easy to navigate the site. The
weather vane leads to weather, the telescope leads to science, etc.
The cyber rooms have Internet links, news and information ranging
from infant care, fitness and family games to pets, camping and
nature. World Wide Web: http://www.familycentral.com
New Request For Comments Published
A new Request For Comments, RFC 2180 on IMAP 4 Multi-Accessed
Mailbox Practice, has been published. The document holds memo
status and is now available from the location listed. Anonymous
FTP: ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2180.txt
New Software - WebSite Director
WebSite Director is a new Web management software package that runs
on several popular Unix platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD,
Solaris, SunOS, and HP-UX. WebSite Director manages each step of
the process of updating Web sites and is now available as part of
the beta test. World Wide Web: http://www.asi.org
How Can We Improve?
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