Word: dotcomism
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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...
Bronson, 38, is a successful journalist and novelist best known for writing about Silicon Valley, but when he started What Should I Do with My Life?, he was asking himself that same question. The dotcom boom was over, he had a child on the way, and the TV show he was writing for had just been canceled to make way for Temptation Island. He was at a crossroads. So he began telling everybody he met that he was looking for tales about how people found their purpose in life. Relying entirely on a grass-roots, and-they-told-two-friends...
...their blue jeans and baseball caps, the U.N. weapons inspectors roaming around Baghdad may look like dotcom alums with clipboards, but they were selected with care. "We're not taking people off the street for this job," says Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), the agency searching for biological and chemical weapons in Iraq. Buchanan says that of the hundreds of applications the U.N. rejected for the 302 spots filled on the inspections team so far, some were very impressive, some not. "We have the adventurers who just think it would be cool...
...hear from people who say things like 'Man, I bought that Blame poster on impulse a couple of years ago,'" Justin says. "'But now I'm seeing that there really are people who believe that success is knowing who to blame for your failures.'" Justin--a college dropout and dotcom failure during the boom, a CEO and dotcom success in 2002--laughs a rueful laugh at that...
...China: Dotcom Comeback...