Going out, without leaving home
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Internet companies are offering Web sites that allow busy professionals to shop online at virtual restaurants, video stores and late-night wine shops. Apparently the most popular wine destination is Virtual Vineyards (www.virtualvineyard.com), which features bottles of wine starting at $10. Shoppers can select from hundreds of bottles, even selecting by winery and type. The site presently is more appropriate for wine aficionados who do not mind spending $5 to $10 for shipping and waiting two to five days for delivery. NY Delivery (www.nydelivery.com), a restaurant delivery site that has collected more than 500 Manhattan-area menus, lets shoppers search by neighborhood and follow the tab. Customers pay cash after NY Delivery has faxed the restaurant that prepares the food. Kozmo.com (www.kozmo.com) organizes its more than 20,000 videos by genre, and each $3.50 video arrives within an hour.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Make a right, you can't miss it
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Several World Wide Web sites offer free interactive mapping tools to assist users in planning their trips. Users can customize maps and create detailed itineraries around a single address, such as a residence. The maps rarely print significant errors, although they do not match the quality of counterparts such as AAA trip planners. Maps On Us (www.mapsonus.com) is a route planner that includes some top restaurant and hotel information. Distance and travel time between destinations are available. Users also can choose between lengthy and concise explanations. A drawback forces users to depend on their own browsers for printing. Microsoft's Expedia Maps (www.expediamaps.com) is easier to print, and it allows easy control of address maps. Map Quest (www.mapquest.com) handles more than one million user requests per day. Those who register can personalize and save their maps.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Personal polls help the nosy sate curiosity
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An increase of create-your-own-poll Web sites solicit participation in numerous topics. Survey Central enables users to customize polls and includes a bulletin-board discussion for each poll. Other sites like Open Debate and the Internet Voice seek to present more of a structured polling environment. Online voters can establish an online presence to counter the traditional national polling methods that influence the mass media, according to James Beniger, a University of Southern California professor and former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Many user-created polls tend to cover personal topics, which one participant said can explore taboo subjects such as suicide or alcoholism.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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