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Experts have been busy placing the burden of blame on the technology sector and its famously overvalued stock prices. Considering the hype--and subsequent expectation inflation--that has surrounded the success of the dot-coms, implicating Internet fever is a safe, uncontroversial explanation that specialists feel comfortable voicing and that the public is eager to swallow...
...that simple. On a day that the dot bombs and other tech dears descended into a panicky free fall, no one with a sizable stake could help fretting that the bubble had burst. At the lows, the decline was in some ways worse than the 1987 crash. Yes. The Crash. Doesn't register? Think. Mom or Dad may have mentioned...
...stock prices of many of last year's dot-com darlings are down as much as ninety percent. The gyrations of the markets may seem like a distraction from day-to-day business, but that's not the case in the New Economy, where stock is the main currency for compensating staff and consolidating competitors...
...specific case of the glue on the label, Ping's team sought their sellers online with the help of a dot-com "market maker" whose web page trumpets its expertise in "business-to-business online auctions for buyers of industrial parts, raw materials, commodities and services." For every different adhesive needed to attach label to bottle, Ping said, "they had at least four of five [online] bidders," each a national supplier. The winning bid represented a savings of 20 percent...
Behind's highly qualified claim of being first is iffy: UPN's new drama The Beat and NBC's recently expired Homicide have both run webisodes. But in a sense, Behind (at www.that70sshow.com is more in tune with the dot-commerce age, because it's more ad than drama. Aimed at young Web surfers, the smart, saucy sitcom's natural audience, it's really a child of the ingenious Internet marketing for The Blair Witch Project. It was promoted entirely online--in part through Microsoft's MSN website--and the 10-minute episode, with hard-hitting information about the characters...