Following the rise and fall of companies that capitalized on the mania of Internet stocks of the late 1990s. We're tracking the aftershock of the great bubble burst of spring 2000.

Tuesday, March 13, 2001 Eazel: The Honeymoon's Over [Slashdot]   10:10:43 PM

Wednesday, February 14, 2001 TheGlobe.com faces Nasdaq delisting. CNET Feb 14 2001 11:12PM ET   9:09:33 PM

Tuesday, February 06, 2001 News.Com: Amazon debuts Honor System. Dubbed the Amazon Honor System, the new payment method will allow Web sites to solicit small donations from visitors or charge for content on a pay-per-view basis. The system will tie into Amazon's one-click payment feature and Amazon's customer database... (Shouldn't we ask first if they've taken out a patent on this?)   10:04:41 AM

Sunday, February 04, 2001 Glenn Fleishman: Yaahoooooo--argh! Genuine People Personalities. A couple days ago, they completed the branding switchover, so that it's now Yahoo! Groups. This kind of thing happens all the time in the dot com world. But with Yahoo's typical response to feedback, they've already made some large blunders.   3:33:47 PM

Wednesday, January 24, 2001 VeriSign Blows Away Forecasts. The company topped earnings estimates by 10 cents per share and pointed to a diversified business as the reason.   4:29:08 PM It doesn't take long to find the gotcha in the redesign at News.Com. There's a big huge ad in the middle of almost every story. News.Com, like every other dotcom, is radically altering its formula, wanting to be one of the survivors. If this proves economic (that is if people continue to read the stories wrapped around the flashing TV-size ads) then you can truly see the cost of being an eyeball. Judge for yourself if the editorial that surrounds the ads is worth the distraction. I've found lately, even before the redesign, that I'm visiting News.Com less. Fast-flowing news, once the exclusive domain of News.Com, is now commonplace. So the quality of the reporting and analysis becomes the issue and the distraction cost of the ads.   7:10:19 AM

Monday, January 22, 2001 Can The Doghouse Help Save Webvan?. Fledgling online grocery story bets diversity is the answer to financial stability as it joins forces with PETsMART.com to launch a pet store on Webvan's site.   1:28:47 PM

Thursday, January 18, 2001 A Dot-Bomb Postmortem. Many died, but what's the fate of dot-coms that survive the current shakeout?   11:01:36 AM Vignette to Cut Jobs in the Face of A Cooling Economy. The software maker cuts jobs in preparation for the cooling economy.   10:00:01 AM

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Last update: 4/13/2001; 12:23:04 PM.