Further proof that we still live in a society where loud complainants are rewarded, regardless of the public interest. The alarming subtext of the article below is Yahoo’s buckling under pressure from a special interest group, called LICRA, who succeeded in...
http://www.redherring.com/companies/2000/1205/com-rim120500.html Blackberry picked to be the American I-mode By Om Malik Redherring.com, December 05, 2000 Michael Dell has one, Marc Andreessen does not leave home without it, and it is a must-have accessory for every...
If there ever was a stupid business model, it’s the Free ISP. Now, that being said.. the Free ISP model is rather successful in the UK, but only because of reciprocal revenues paid by BT and the Local telcos to the ISPs. Even then, the pay-per-minute model for...
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:31:23 -0700 >To: Tom Whore , Tony Berkman >From: Ian Andrew Bell >Subject: Re: Modo.net shuts down, Idealab blamed >Cc: Mike Masnick , fork [at] xent [dot] com >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >At 7:52 AM -0700 10/26/00, Tom Whore wrote: >>You mean...
The article below is interesting (nothing new) but I zeroed in on the quote from Garden.com co-founder Lisa Sharples. She is (and most people are) blaming some nethery concept known as “market sentiment” for the demise of Garden.com and all of the other...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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