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Early in the dotcom boom, when just being on the Web seemed to be an advanced business strategy, retailers were happy to pay for "eyeballs"--sheer audience size. Never mind that the impact was next to impossible to track. Today eyeballs are still an important factor, but retailers prefer performance-based deals--paying for "click-throughs" (portal visitors clicking on one of their links) and, in some cases, actual sales. "Back in the go-go days of the Internet, retailers would pay for the halo effect of being on a big portal like AOL," says David Bolotsky, who headed Goldman...
...boundaries between smart boxes (the PC) and dumb ones (the TV). Problem was, people loved their idiot box just the way it was, idiotic. So the PC stayed in the living room, a disappointed Microsoft renamed WebTV as msn TV in 2001, and convergence was relegated to the Internet-boom graveyard, next to Pets.com and retiring before 30. Pass the remote. Sometimes, you can't keep a good buzzword down. The microchip is once again creeping toward the living room. And this time, thanks to a wave of new products and digital-appliance advances, convergence seems ready to take hold...
...just seems to me a matter of common sense...that the education is more likely to be advanced by the parties talking to each other and explaining their positions publicly than by Harvard central lowering the boom,” Lewis said...
...Finger Paint” balances distorted guitar with warm female vocals. Thankfully, Amp rescues “Sorry” (an apology to Zion’s ex-girlfriends) from the realm of tired cliches, laying an ethereal flute and keys over violins and a crunchy boom-bip. MC Zion particularly shines on “Dune,” a haunting proclamation of socio-political apocalypse. The song’s chorus finds some hope among all the despair: “Cadillac, prison guards, Mumia behind bars / We in charge, live for God, no matter how hard...
...height of the dot-com boom three years ago, students packed into computer science classes, often hoping to snag million-dollar jobs after graduation...