——— http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s 1&a$437,00.asp March 21, 2002 Robin Hoods of the Net By Charles C. Mann Vigilantes or heroes? These guys target spam, pop-up ads, copyrights, and other ‘evils’ of the net...
—— Forwarded Message From: Wilson Zehr Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:34:57 -0700 To: ‘Ian Andrew Bell’ Subject: RE: New Strategy for AOL.. The guys at Qwest pretty much did the same thing. Sold “the promise” of their OC 148 fiber...
Essentially, if AOL had not purchased Time Warner at the height of the bubble, ask yourself what AOL’s value would be today? Probably not much. So, like others of their ilk, the smart guys at AOL saw their precarious position and bought an established, credible...
AOL has reversed the decision I reported a year ago [1] to force AOL employees to use AOL email, probably as a result of internal revolt (or is that disgust?). A tangent — who the hell uses the word: “e-mail” still? -Ian. [1]...
I finally installed OSX this weekend on my PowerBook (thanks Sleemer) and with it I installed an application called “Fire” which acts as a front-end client to all of the Instant Messaging networks at once. For me, that makes it a killer app. I put a screen...
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.
