An utterly eclectic list of pages and sites that I have visited and found useful or, at least, interesting. If, based on the interests reflected in this list, you know of a page that I might like to visit, please email me the URL: emcquarrie@mailer.scu.edu.
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BOOKMARKS IN THIS FILE:
Marketing | Electronic magazines | Good books | Graphics | Financial | Free software | Real estate
switchboard: online white pages with 90 million names and phone numbers. A great way to search for that
lost college buddy.
Altavista: Very fast index to billions of pages at millions of sites.
Net Search & Net Directory: These buttons on the Netscape browser will take you to other search engines
and indexes
Intermedia: Good starting place with useful links, but somewhat dated when I last looked.
Project2000: One of the most active academic efforts to understand the Web.
AMIC: Good starting place for advertising materials, including internet-related stuff.
Advertising Age: The electronic version of the well-known trade magazine.
Business School web pages: A rating system of many Bschool web sites, with hot links to the sites.
Hotwired: You and I are just amateurs-these people are living on the net. See their Webomatic toolkit for more helpful Web resources.
Cnet: Focus on computer news. It's kind of interesting to read about computers using a computer. Plus, this
site contains many useful links to other Web-related information.
The Web Page Design Cookbook: By William Horton et al. John Wiley, 1996. The explanation of how an example page was created, what the underlying HTML code looks like, together with the tips on design add up to a tremendously useful package. The CD-ROM is worth the price of the book-all the examples( a catalog page, a biography, a book description, etc.) are included with full HTML code so that you can just cut and paste to make it your own.
Web Publishing with Word for Windows: by Ron Person, Que, 1995. The Internet assistant is a free add-on to MS Word available for downloading from Microsoft. The way I see it, an HTML document is just a document formatted for a slightly different kind of printer. Might as well use your word processor to prepare it. An equivalent product for WordPerfect can be obtained from Novell.
Special Edition: Using Netscape 2: by Mark R. Brown, Que, 1995. Good guide to the growing complexity of Netscape's browser-plug-ins etc. There are shorter and cheaper guides, but the CD-ROM with its very useful set of shareware puts this one over the top.
Macmillan, which owns Que, Sams, and other computer book imprints has a home page worth visiting-lots of
useful links.
Yahoo: This link will take you a great directory of icons.
Yahoo: This link does the same for backgrounds. In general, consult the next level up in Yahoo (the Programming directory that holds both the icon and backgrounds lists) for other directories containing other neat stuff.
Hint: If you have Netscape Navigator you can generally get a copy of any image you see by pressing the right
mouse button, and dragging the image to the "Save As" menu choice that appears on the popup menu.
Whether copyright laws permit you to do this, or whether you should do this, is a question you should at least
think about.
investorama.com: eclectic list of Web sites related to investment.
Free stock quotes: If you know the symbol for your stocks (e.g., the 3, 4, or 5 letter abbreviation used on the ticker tape) you can get 20 minute delayed quotes, high low so far that day, and volume thus far. Handy for checking up on an important stock.
Bloomberg Financial Services: Results for equity and bond indexes all over the world, as soon as the markets have closed. Essential for those following the Bolsa and the Hang Seng with keen interest.
Morgan Stanley: Same kind of thing, but these are proprietary indexes fashioned by MS, for countries, regions, just about any grouping you could desire.
Russell : A variety of indexes tracking large and small (e.g., the Russell 2000), value and growth stocks, with some historical data.
Barra: Another source of proprietary indexes, especially value vs. Growth stocks within the S&P 500.
Ohio State Guide: More financial and economic data than you want to think about.
TIAA-CREF: Very important source of data for academics--much of our wealth [sic] is tied up here.
Vanguard: Large site with lots of educational material, in addition to descriptions of and performance data on Vanguard funds
Fidelity: Lots and lots of performance data. Fidelity is one of the only sites I know that gives the total return
of the relevant index to which the fund is compared on a year by year basis (most others give only 1, 3 and 5
year returns). And if you don't understand the bold italics, then you haven't tried to find, say, the 1992 return
for the EAFE index on the web. If you are benchmarking your portfolio against various indexes over
particular periods, find a Fidelity fund likely to be compared to that index and click on performance. You'll
see the funds performance and the Index's, year by year, for up to ten years.
Shareware: Uncounted goodies, searchable in a variety of ways. But remember: first you install virus protection, then you download application software.
Zdnet.com: A new service from the publisher of PC magazine that provides a short review of each shareware
program, a counter reflecting how often it has been downloaded, and price and terms.
General guide: It's still more promise than delivery, but real estate is a perfect candidate for full Webomation.
Home search: Not available in most places as yet, but check this out if you are moving to San Diego and want to see how people will search for homes in the wired future.
Cornish & Carey | Alain Pinel : Two large realtors in the Bay Area try their hand at internet marketing.