Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This Thursday afternoon the e-Cards crew is sitting around a conference table, trying to make one another laugh. Today's subjects are office humor and holidays in February. A "Valentine's Day, My Ass" card for lonely hearts? Possibly. A motivational groundhog speaker? Probably. A support group for obscure Presidents? "'I passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff, but do I even get a tire ad?'" Absolutely...
...since mid-1998, the company has grown from one online store to more than a dozen, and from 1,100 to more than 5,000 love-it-or-leave-it, multitasking nomads. Ask the average Amazon employee for his or her business card. He will stammer and pat his pockets, explaining that, well, his number changed; she has a new job title; their group just moved; the new cards aren...
...undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say you're watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and it's heading to your door. Excite@Home already knows your credit-card details and address. Just sit back and wait for the calories...
...product that offers the most flexibility is the Matrox Marvel G400-TV, a $300 kit consisting of an advanced graphics card that slides inside your PC (you need a Windows machine with a Pentium II 233-MHz or faster processor) and an external hub that takes analog video from myriad sources (VCR, cable TV, camcorder) and puts it on your computer screen. The accompanying software, called Avid Cinema, provides the easy-step editing tools. The quality of the new video you create is only as good as the original source, however, so you won't be able to touch...
...dairy goat that will supply milk for a child-headed Rwandan family. Other items in the nonprofit's catalog include a birthday party for a Romanian orphanage ($30), and a survival pack for a resettling family from Kosovo ($80). The gifts are tax deductible, and gift recipients receive a card from World Vision describing the contribution made in their names...