I never understood their business plan. DoDots was creating software that allowed people to embed internet-based applications on the desktop — sorry, but isn’t that a web browser? Anyway, this is Softbank’s biggest failure to date. I think they had...
Interesting, now that Starbuck is better known as a Barista than an Intergalactic Fighter Pilot. It won’t be the same without Lorne Greene, though. -Ian.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,681626a10,FF.html Calling all Jedis, census night awaits 05 MARCH 2001 May the farce be with you . . . Tomorrow is census night and a light-hearted e-mail is circulating the country encouraging Star Wars buffs who don’t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
—— 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...
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...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
