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Wow. I Made A Web Page!

I re-did the ianbell.com web site last night. It looks like I actually know what I’m doing, no? The downside is it no longer formats identically on WAP as it does on the WWW…. but then, we all know how I feel about WAP. Enjoy. -Ian.

Audio Satellite Launched Into Orbit

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010318/tc/satellite_radio_2.html Sunday March 18 10:02 PM ET Audio Satellite Launched Into Orbit By ANDREW BRIDGES, AP Science Writer LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) – The first of a pair of digital audio broadcast satellites soared...

From Pud @ FuckedCompany…

…comes this spooky supposition: Take a picture This is not a fuck. Well maybe it is, for Yahoo, being as they’re worth so little these days (when they used to be worth much more). Okay fine it’s not a fuck. Anyway. Rumor has it Kodak will shortly be...

Kraft Dinner IPO!

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010316/wat023473_2.html Friday March 16, 4:45 pm Eastern Time Macaroni and cheese maker Kraft Foods files to go public WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – Kraft Foods Inc., whose products include macaroni and cheese and Oscar Mayer hot dogs,...

FW: Market Perspective

—— Forwarded Message From: “Adam L. Beberg” Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:15:58 -0800 (PST) To: fork [at] xent [dot] com Subject: Market Perspective Reality is a harsh mistress, welcome back....

Re: RE: card change

In typical Idealab! fashion, they’re patenting this bogus “method” (prior art with Alternic?). Why didn’t they just submit an application to ICANN to become a registrar for a Top Level Domain? Isn’t that easier (and cheaper) than trying...

Ironic?

Didn’t I predict this article in my Globe and Mail dispatch? 🙂 -Ian. —- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010311/wr/tech_lifestyle_dc_1.html Sunday March 11 8:01 AM ET Internet Stock Flop Zaps Dot-Com Lifestyle By Michael Kahn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)...

Cisco To Cut up to 5,000 Jobs

I’m SO glad I left. If their stock continues to tank they won’t have to lay off anybody. But christ, when I joined Cisco in September 1998 Cisco had 18,000 employees. But now 44,000? That’s crazy. Anyway, John Chambers once said that, as a result of...

Re: IPO.com Pricing Range Alert – LOUDCLOUD, INC.

My neighbour in LA is still dating Marc. I think your opinion is a popular one. He’s been marketed, at times, as a wunderkind and a technological visionary. I think that, if anything, Netscape’s failure to execute on anything resembling a business strategy...

Idealab! & Airwave

I never figured out what Idealab!’s investment in eVoice was, but it can’t be too significant. Idealab! never even mentions them. Anyway, the Airwave guys pitched me their plan when they were first starting last summer. I wasn’t under anybody’s...