Quick way to 'web-ify yourself'. How can you get your daily dose of Web news without spending half the day trying to find it?

One way: Create your own website, or a personalize news page on Yahoo! or Excite.

Both portals let you customize the day's headlines to get plenty of news about the Internet and news in any area of interest you have. If you want to track a specific publicly traded company, you can add its stock ticker to your page. Click on the symbol, and you'll receive quotes and links to stories. Then make it a 'favorite', or even have that be your start-up page when you log on, and you'll get it all on one customized-for-you page.

For setting up a personalized Yahoo! page go to http://www.yahoo.com and click on "My" at the top of the page, and for Excite, go to http://www.excite.com and click on 'New Members Sign up' on top of the page. Wonderful. Time saving. I have a my.Yahoo page.

(Info in B. from Fast Company magazine, Jan-Feb issue, 2001)

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WEB TIDBITS

In 1999, small businesses spent $19.6 billion building Web sites. By the end of 2003, this figure will grow to $85.5 billion. (Source: IDC) Between 1996 and 1999, more than half of the 2.6% increase in US labor productivity was directly related to the increase in information technology jobs. [Source: The Industry Standard, July 11, 2001] Of the world's 6 billion people, 288 million are online. [Source: Time Digital magazine, July 2001] Estimated number of e-mails sent in 1997: 2.7 Trillion Estimated number of e-mails that will be sent in 2001: 6.9 Trillion Est. number of pages on the Internet: over 2.1 billion Est. number of pages added each day: over 7 million In the first 3 months of 2001, over 2.2 million digital modems were shipped worldwide. [Source: Cahners In-Stat, nua.com, July 13, 2001]