IDG (San Francisco, CA) has re-launched "The Industry Standard," a noted print magazine that followed the rise of the Internet economy and which was closed in 2001, as an online-only publication (thestandard.com).

IDG (San Francisco, CA) has re-launched "The Industry Standard," a noted print magazine that followed the rise of the Internet economy and which was closed in 2001, as an online-only publication (thestandard.com). The new publication features analysis and news covering emerging technologies and companies, venture funding, acquisitions, site launches and other developments related to the Internet. IDG said the publication "aggregates community knowledge in a quantified fashion, thereby ranking both the knowledge of the individual community members themselves, as well as the value of the information the community provides as a whole. This system is built as a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network." Besides industry news, content includes a prediction market, which uses community input and algorithms to forecast events in the technology industry. The site is being sponsored by Intel for the first three months of operation.