ZIS is de rubriek waar aandacht wordt besteed aan Zinloze Internet Services. Enerzijds een plek waar je je ergernis kwijt kunt, anderzijds een ruimte om aan te geven wat je werkeijk zou willen. Los van mijn eigen ideeen over Internet, werd ik hiertoe geinspireerd door de volgende uitspraak....

...." I decided to start this list when I heard that SHYFONTS.COM closed due to the following reasons. I knew he wasn't alone:

"I just wasn't receiving that much support from my users. Everybody kept downloading all of the fonts, but never supported the site. I'd get almost 2,000 hits a day and no one would really click an ad or buy one of our shirts (only one person ever bought a shirt). What made it worse, with the traffic I received, hardly anybody ever sent me an email just to say 'thanks.' I just couldn't afford to keep the site up anymore. It really sucks too, because I've spent a lot of time and effort on ShyFonts." We really don't ask for that much.

Die geleid heeft tot dit manifest

-- Ben (ben@timedesk.nl), April 28, 2001

Answers

Een eerste bijdrage vond ik zojuist bij JoHo .... Be prepared to waste some time at a site that lets you send an email with an animated head that robotically reads the text you've written: have been having too much fun with it making them say things that aren't very clean.lifefx

File this under " Business Plans Requiring a Bong to Seem Attractive." Maar hier is wat ze zelf over dit unieke product te melden hebben... Product We believe LifeFX Stand-In™ Virtual People are one of the most realistic, interactive, speaking digital faces ever created. To the best of our knowledge, LifeFX has the only biologically based facial modeling system in the world, thus enabling us to be the first to break the barrier to creating believable, photo-realistic, life-like virtual people. Add in unique user-controlled emotions and expressions, and our Stand-Ins come to life like nothing ever seen before on the Internet. Facemail, the first application to incorporate the LifeFX technology, enables people to send and receive talking e-mails delivered by the Stand-In of their choice.

-- Ben (ben@timedesk.nl), April 28, 2001.