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Fortune's Smart Managing column in November 11, 1996 issue gave a cheerful "thumbs up" to @BRINT as a "web site useful for managers".

Tom Stewart, the Editorial Board member of Fortune and author of the bestseller Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations, has separtely characterized A Business Researcher's Interests as:

"A splendid compendium of articles and links on all manner of business subjects, with a superb collection of articles on knowledge management and intellectual capital."

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Smart Managing: Web Sites for Managers

JUSTIN MARTIN

It may be worldwide, but what does the web offer that's useful for managers? We surfed some popular sites and returned to shore with these verdicts.

A Business Researcher's Interests (pitt.edu/~malhotra/ interest. html) Thumbs up for this serious surfer's tool. The site lists numerous subjects such as MIS, intellectual property, and outsourcing. Links are then provided to online versions of scholarly articles, case studies, and other resources.

Four 11 (Four11.com) Thumbs down. This purports to be a kind of web-based white pages for looking up E-mail addresses. But enter "Bill Gates," and at least 27 different listings come back, fully seven of them at Microsoft. Which one, if any, will reach Bill? Better to send a letter.

AT&T Business Network (bnet.att.com/) This helpful site, funded by AT&T, provides news, management tips, and market research. A highlight is the job-posting feature, sorted by location and job type. A search for brokers in Boston garnered 12 spots, but a hunt for telecommunications engineer postings in northern New Jersey-- home of layoff-prone AT&T--yielded no listings.

Mapquest (mapquest. com) It's all over the map. Traveling N.Y. to Boston? Up pops a terribly convoluted route. Want to find Du Pont? The business locater fails to turn it up.

Web-wise managers: Which sites do you find useful or worthless? Send us your candidates.

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The online version of the Fortune article is accessible at:

http://pathfinder.com/@@EqPf9QQAagV1OEug/fortune/1996/961111/fea.html

The URL address shown for A Business Researcher's Interests is the address of Yogesh Malhotra's personal home page at the University of Pittsburgh where this metasite was located before moving to its permanent home at brint.com.