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...wake of the dot-com bubble-burst, in which it became apparent that most of those instant-celebrity analysts - and the Internet stocks they blessed with hundred-dollar price targets - had been full of hot air, Wall Street found itself staring down the barrel of congressional scrutiny and decided to polish its own image...
...what comes out of analysts' mouths - especially the digestible version that most of us deal with - is drivel anyway. Like the ratings system - "Sell" ratings make up less than 2% of all ratings, with ratings like "hold," "neutral," or "market perform" standing in for the s-word. And the dot-com bust routinely saw stocks fall as much as 90% from their high before analysts removed their "buy" ratings...
Near-identical domain names are easy to obtain. Banks have also been a frequent target of spoofers. Bank of America got wwwbankofamerica.com taken down--its domain name, minus the dot after www--but not before some customers were tricked into entering financial information...
...world of rock and ice into the living room, via the Web browser. When Simonson's party set off in 1999 to find the remains of Everest pioneers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, and then found Mallory's body, the world learned about it online. The website (the now dot-bombed mountainzone.com) that hosted the dramatic pictures and first-person storytelling clocked more than 5 million hits...
...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...