This is our attempt to do some prep work before trying to answer the inevitable question, "what are the cool parties and technologies at this show?" Tony hopes to attend these events and look at these demos at Internet World next week in Los Angeles.

Internet World, March 10-14

Los Angeles Convention Ctr. 500 exhibiting companies.

Internet World Exhibitors -- this is the master list.

http://events.iworld.com/spring97/iw/exhibitors.shtml

Parties worth considering:

My list is not meant to be comprehensive, just interesting. For more, try the complete party list.

MKS, March 11 (5:30-7:30p)

House of Blues, 8439 Sunset Blvd.

InterActive Agency, Wired magazine and TAG Media, March 12 (7-10p)

Viper Room, 8852 Sunset Blvd.

OZ Interactive, March 13 (7:30-9:30p)

Palace in Hollywood, 1735 North Vine.

OZONE, OZ Interactive's new 3D Internet entertainment community

http://www.oz.com

The Palace, March 13 (7-11p)

House of Blues, 8439 Sunset Blvd.

A leader in virtual world chat.

http://www.thepalace.com/

Howard Stern Private Parts Rules/Sucks Party, March 13th (9p-2a)

836 N. Highland between Melrose Ave and Santa Monica Bl., Hollywood.

http://www.private-parts.com

Sponsored by Worldsite Networks

Visit booth #6228 to get your invite.

Special events:

NetGuide Live Awards, March 13 (6-10p dinner)

El Rey Theater, 5515 Willshire Blvd.

http://www.netguide.com

Internet World Magazine Industry Awards, March 14 (noon lunch)

http://events.iworld.com/awards/iw_awards.html

Top of the news (companies likely to announce something significant):

Progressive Networks

New RealAudio, RealMedia, Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

http://www.real.com

ParaGraph International

First VRML 2.0 authoring suite.

http://www.paragraph.com

Integrated Data Systems

Version 2.0 of V-Realm Builder, a VRML 2.0 authoring tool.

http://www.ids-net.com

Data Translation

Broadway 2.0 MPEG video system for streaming or downloading video on net/web, booth #6028.

http://www.datx.com

StellarSoft

Privateline, a new secure e-mail program.

http://www.stellarline.com/~grock

Live Picture

RealSpace combines net images with photo-spatial interactivity to create completely interactive, photo-spatial web worlds.

http://www.livepicture.com

Macromedia

Launch of Director 6, leading authoring tool.

http://www.macromedia.com

Apple

HotSauce, Cyberdog, servers, new Apple message, etc.

http://www.apple.com

Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Netscape, Sun, and SGI likely to have announcements. For Macintosh-related news from the show floor, check out this.

These are the companies to check out (not sure of news value, but good for background):

If no web address is provided, the PR firm forgot to include it. I don't have time to check them all.

Astound

WebCast "push technology" offering, and WebCast Studio, an authoring tool that allows webmasters to create channels.

BackWeb Technologies

Personalized broadcast channels.

http://www.backweb.com

Bluestone

Sapphire/Web is Java-to-database development tool.

http://www.bluestone.com

Black Sun Interactive

VRML pioneer, turns web sites into 3D communities.

http://www.blacksun.com

FireFly Network, Inc.

Collaborative filtering software.

http://www.firefly.net

http://www.firefly.com

ichat, Inc.

Web chat tool.

http://www.ichat.com

Individual, Inc.

A preview of First! Intranet 3.0, the next version of its corporate news and information service.

http://www.individual.com

Intel

http://www.intel.com

Lotus

Domino, new Java stuff will be there.

http://www.lotus.com

Net Nanny Software

Net Nanny filtering software.

http://www.netnanny.com

PointCast, Inc.

Broadcasts news and information, leading "push" technology.

http://www.pointcast.com

Pragmatica

Products for HTML developers.

http://www.pragmaticainc.com

Skunk Technologies

Entao is a Java-based net operating system with business-oriented Java applets for implementing information systems.

http://www.skunktech.com

SoftQuad

WebFiler Interactive, an update to HoTMetaL PRO 3.0 adding site management, and HoTMetaL Intranet Publisher (HiP).

http://www.sq.com

StorageTek

i:drive is a new remote Internet storage service for personal computers.

Booth #2603

TGS

3Space Publisher, a new 3D design and animation tool for web, CD-ROM, and desktop publishing.

http://www.tgs.com

Vosaic L.L.C.

Vosaic Audio for Java, a pure Java-based sound streaming system using the global ITU standard, GSM audio.

http://www.vosaic.com

Xing Technology Corp.

digital audio and video on the web

http://www.xingtech.com

These are the conference sessions to check out:

The Red Herring Internet Entrepreneur Forum

http://www.herring.com

Microsoft Active Platform Developers Day

http://www.microsoft.com

http://events.iworld.com/spring97/iw/activeplatform/ax_cover.shtml

General Workshop: Developing with CyberDog and Hot Sauce

VRML World Developer Day

Sun/Java Developer Day

Keynote speakers worth watching:

Gil Amelio, Apple

Rob Glaser, Progressive Networks

Special exhibit areas:

Microsoft Active Platform Pavilion

http://events.iworld.com/spring97/iw/activeplatform/ax_cover.shtml

Netscape Partner Pavilion

http://events.iworld.com/spring97/iw/netscape/net_cover.shtml

Sponsors (magazines etc.):

ADWEEK

Mecklermedia (producers of show):

http://www.iworld.com/corporate/meckler.html

Internet World

iworld

http://www.iworld.com/

Web Developer

WebWeek

Be seeing you...

-- Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes, Mar. 9, 1997. Comments?

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