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Famous FOIB..

Jeff’s been hangin’ with Greenspan these days. http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,22609,00.html?mail March 02, 2001 Phone Companies Rally to Avoid a Credit Squeeze Telecom players met with the Federal Reserve to discuss chilly capital...

Re: RE: Napster’s Toast

True, but the community itself will cease to exist and become fractionalized which, as Wilson points out, is the failure of the music industry to realize an incredible opportunity. Napster’s value as agent-of-change will continue, of course. The RIAA is already...

Napster’s Toast

In as long as it takes for Judge Patel to draft and submit the injunction, Napster will be offline. This will probably be Monday but may even be by the end of business today. If it’s Monday, expect a banner weekend of downloading to start in earnest this...

Flirting With Reality..

Here’s the actual piece.. http://archives.theglobeandmail.com/s97is.vts?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2Fopt%2 FGIS%2Fverity%2FTGAM%2FTGAM%2Fhtml%2F20010228%2FROUTS%2Ehtml&DocOffset=1&Doc...

NEWS: Can a peer-to-peer phone network fly?

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/cn/20010228/tc/can_a_peer-to-peer_phone_netwo rk_fly__1.html Wednesday February 28 03:00 PM EST Can a peer-to-peer phone network fly? By John Borland CNET News.com The latest market eyed for peer-to-peer technology is an already...

Breaking News (Guffaw)

—— Forwarded Message From: dennis Organization: Pigsty Industries Reply-To: dennis [at] chimpz [dot] com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:07:24 -0800 To: ian [at] ianbell [dot] com Subject: quakeIII Dear Boy: The quake now measures 7.0 on the Richter scale and...

Ex-Amazon.com Guy..

We’ll be barraged by press covering this guy in the coming weeks… He’s staging a play he’s written about his experiences as a dot com weasel at Amazon.com, AKA the cult of Bezos. http://www.mikedaisey.com/ There’s a rather cheeky but...

In the Globe & Mail This Week…

Although I think it’s a bit early to pronounce that our generation’s hopelessness has once again descended, I still think this is a poignant argument and is a good setup for some other stuff I’m writing. Anyway, The Toronto Globe & Mail bought...

360networks moves up a layer..

Pretty soon, 360 will likely be offering tools like MPLS and VPN. Eventually, I think, this will lead to applications and channels like VOIP and others. Keep an eye on them. Vancouver-based company. -Ian. —— Forwarded Message From: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001...

Internet Radio Report

—- http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010220/2655.html Tuesday February 20, 12:00 pm Eastern Time Press Release MeasureCast Internet Radio Report: Most Listeners Log On During Lunch Hours PORTLAND, Ore.–(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)–Feb. 20, 2001–MeasureCast,...