Internet Showcase Special (2000): Part 2

Computer Chronicles visited Palm Springs, California to bring you Upside's "Showcase". Part two of our “sneak preview” of what you’ll be seeing in the next year. [Episode #1723, First broadcast: 2/22/2000] Internet News: ABC News.com Sam Donaldson, network television journalist for more than thirty years, says he is a firm believer in the Internet as the future medium for all news. He now hosts a regular fifteen minute web cast show called Sam Donaldson at ABC News.com. New York Times Another well know news heavyweight moving aggressiblley into Internet news is the New York Times. Internet Business: @Backup @Backup is a simple way to back up your files on a web site. Just click on the files you want to back up, and they automatically get sent to your virtual back up drive in cyberspace. X-Drive Another online storage service offering up to 100 megabytes of storage space for free. What’s cool about X-drive is that it appears like just another drive on your Windows desktop. You have your ‘C drive’, ‘D drive’ and now your ‘X Drive. You can choose to download at another time and it's incredibly fast – a three megabyte song move over to the X-drive can happen in twenty seconds. i-drive i-drive makes it easy to save web sites. Just grab the information you want, and transfer it to your i-drive. It collects all the HTML and metadata and it works much faster than a bookmark when it comes to retrieving that data. Zoomerang Zoomerang lets you add surveys to your web site so you can get organized feedback from your customers, your business associates or your friends. Voice Recognition: Firetalk Firetalk takes net telephony to the next phase. All you need is the plug-in, and you can talk to any one. You can even carry on a conference call with several people at once. Firetalk also automatically alerts you to other Firetalk users who are logged on to that same site so that you can also chat with other people who happen to be