From Angela: I found a tasty site at http://www.godiva.com
From Steve Tosterud: Id software, makers of the world's most popular game until they outdo themselves every two years or so can be found at: http://www.idsoftware.com
From Steve Hanschka: Travel planning and information, as well as ticket purchasing can be done at: http://www.ual.com/ (United Airlines) and http://www.americanair.com (American Airlines).
From Jim: Avery sells office products (paper, etc.) at: http://www.avery.com/index_norm.html.
From Rika: I found this URL, http://www.virtualvin.com/. It's for buying wine, food and gifts. Do you think they check whether the customers who order wine are the minors or not?
Mike also had some comments on this site: The Virtual Vineyards site offers mainly California wines, some international wines, gourmet food and gifts. This site was of particular interest to me because of my restaurant experience. The site has won numerous awards including "Best of Buy it online", "Starting Point Choice Award", "POV 100 Top Web Sites" and "Web Flier's Wings Award". The company uses the Secure Commerce Server encryption and security feature to process online transactions.
From Sarah: Amazon Books is the largest book seller in the world. If you want to find any obscure book Amazon has it. The address is: http:/www.amazon.com/.
From Sarah: Epicurious is a great site for food lovers. You can tell Epicurious the ingredients in your fridge and it will give you recipes to use them in. There's also food columns and a bulletin board where you can post favorite recipes.
From Steve Hanschka: Charles Schwab, the discount brockerage house, is on-line at SchwabNOW, . Here, by establishing an account and password, you can buy and trade trade stocks, mutual funds, etc. on-line, as well as monitor your portfolio, get market information and research, and many other features related to finance and maintaining a portfolio. This, of course, is not necessarily of much use to the average college student, but it does demonstrate a fairly powerful interactive application available on the internet.
From Rika: Go to this Disney site and checked out many linked sites too.
From Angela: Everyone has probably seen or heard about it, but MTV.com is a great example of interactivity on the web. Not only is it interactive, but conversations are aired on cable television.
From James: If you like sports, check out http://espnet.sportszone.com/nfl/ This is the place to get the latest scoop on upcoming events. It features real audio, so you can listen to simulcasts, or intervi ews with players. They also offer a 'pop up' window that you can keep on you desk top that has live updated scores of all the sports going on in that particular day. With a membership, the benefits are even more. (There was a special site set up for th e super bowl last year that utilized live audio and interactive chat rooms)
If sports aren't your thing, check out http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder/? This is a site that you can get latest technology information regarding web building and the Internet. (Of course it is all in regards to Microsoft's products.) If you decide to get a free membership, you can talk with professional site builders, receive a free copy of IE 4.0 via CD ROM in the mail, and free downloads, etc, etc. If you do decide to become a member, I HIGHLY S UGGEST that you install Active X 3.0, and VRML control. Microsoft and several companies have several sites that utilize both of these technologies and you then get to enter a 3D world of virtual reality.
From Mike: a good example of a fresh looking web site is www.fritolay.com
a good example of a cool web site that I like is the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco: www.thinker.org/index.shtml
From Brian: If you're into music, the band Phish has a really good website at www.phish.com.
From Rika: I like this user friendly sony site, http://www.sony.com/
From Steve H.: Weather information furnished on the internet provides an example of web-based information and communication that far surpasses that available in any other medium. For example, satellite maps provide all sorts of complicated images and data for weather around the world. These images are accomponied with diagrams and terms describing millibars, gradients and other sorts of stuff that are fun to look at even if you don't understand any of it. Here are a couple of these sites:
<http://virga.sfsu.edu/crws.html> The California Regional Weather Server supported by the Meteorology program in the Department of Geosciences at San Francisco State University. These weather maps and images use software from the Unidata Program Center (whatever that is) and data from the National Weather Service.
<http://wxp.atms.purdue.edu/> Described as "a software package developed at Purdue University which is a general purpose weather visualization tool for current, forecasted and archived meteorological data, courtesy of the National Weather Service, University of Wisconsin and WSI Corporation."
<http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/>Provides "thousands of forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links, WeatherNet is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of weather data on the Web, sponsored by The Weather Underground at the University of Michigan."
From Jim: There is a pretty cool site at http://www.blender.com/ It is a CD ROM magazine site. They review music, movies etc. They also have some cool interviews, this months is Metallica. There is also a second pop-up window that allows you to take the 'Are you an Alien quiz.'---And the site even works with Netscape. The site is designed for a younger crowd, but it is fun nevertheless.
If you really want to take a trip into the future, check out http://www.mdmax.com/ This site incorporates all kinds of ActiveX controls and has won awards from all over the world. It is a virtual peek into the future. The page deals with a wide range of things from fashion---recycled rubber wear to cotton shirts at the Tokyo subway---to insights as to what the future of technology might hold. It is very graphic intensive and uses ActiveX controls, so if you have a modem slower than 28.8 or you are using Netscape, you might not want to visit. BUT, if you do have a 28.8 modem, and are using IE w/ActiveX installed, turn up your speakers, and enjoy the trip!
From Angela: Check out http://www.maine.com/lobsters/Welcome.html/. It's a pretty detailed site for a lobster company. Many retailers wonder why they should have a web.
From Sarahanne: I found a couple entertainment sites. The first for Universal studios (http://jurassic.unicity.com/) was an interesting sites with solid content and eye catching visuals. The second site was for Entertainment Extra (http://www.ddc.com/extra/). It was a dull and had no direction. The hot links were not clear and the content was boring.
Pathfinder also does a good job of promoting itself off-line. All Time Warner publications that I have read lately (Time, Fortune, People, etc.) feature some sort of promotion and information about Pathfinder.
The url is: http://pathfinder.com
From Jim: I didn't start out to look for this link, but it came up in so many of my other searches, I decided to go and check it out. Once I checked it out, I decided to search for things like 'Sports', 'Sports Scores', 'NFL', and 'NBA'. Each and EVERY time, I searched with one of these terms, a banner came up referencing CBS Sportsline. On these search engines, Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, and WebCrawler. This doesn't include the times that it came up when I was doing a search for something else. Besides purchasing 'key words' from the search engines and buying ad time, they use META NAME="Description" content="a list of names", and META NAME="key words" content="a list of words"-- on their Home Page.
See their Home Page at: http://cbs.sportsline.com/index.html
From Mike: I was just surfing and stumbled on the French Cannes Film Festival 97 site. It was listed in Netscape's What's New and What's Cool indeces. The url is www.cannes-fest.com.
The festival has its own site and also includes its content within other sites such as the filmscout site. The url for that site is www.filmscouts.com/festivals/cannes97/index.html. This is a good example of the festival creating broader coverage on the net by using sites such as filmscouts to increase their visability on the web.
Enjoy the sunshine!
From Angela: Check out altavista.digital.com. Ever heard of it? This is a perfect example of online publicity because it appears at the beginning of millions of searches everyday. I have the most faith in this particular search engine.
From Rika: How about http://www.paramount.com/
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