Word: com
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...selling business today, you need only have sat in Radio City Music Hall Monday afternoon and listened to NBC Entertainment President (and former "Today" producer) Jeff Zucker explain what "good times" these are for the TV-ad-selling business. In 1999 and 2000 - those halcyon, bounteous days when dot-com pioneers bestrode the land like giants, tossing multi-million-dollar ad buys to networks like parade marshals tossing penny candy to children - NBC was strong and rich and could laugh at itself. Its upfront presentations were like Friars roasts, with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (of Conan O'Brien fame...
...Omen Internet-infatuated Israeli computer programmer Tomer Krissi legally changes his surname to ".com"?so that he and his website will both be called "tomer.com...
...were not only expected but welcome. Kozmo was yet another dotcom, in the ignominious tradition of Pets.com, eToys.com, and ifilm.com, that thought it could make more of a business out of the web than was really possible. Investors are now loathe to touch any stock whose name ends in .com, and the prevailing opinion is that such failures have been a cathartic experience for the technology industry. In a few years, the industry will be healthy and robust again, precisely because no one is wasting time and money founding companies with names like BBQ.com...
...Amid the dot-com wreckage, travel bookings are turning out to be one thing the Web is very, very good at. With all the efficiencies of instant price comparison and the one-stop plane, hotel and rental-car shopping that Expedia and its main competitor, Travelocity, offer, tech tracker Forrester Research estimates that U.S. sales will reach $16.7 billion this year and $29 billion...
...Well, Amazon can still bellwether with the best of them, at least emotionally. After the bubble-all-over-its-face dot-com boldly preannounced Monday that it had lost less money (and sold more stuff) in the first quarter than anybody expected, suddenly anything looks possible. Could Motorola, or E*Trade (after the bell Tuesday) pleasantly surprise too? Could Yahoo (Wednesday?) tell us the web advertising market isn't quite a death sentence...