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...Trying to become a centralized source, which is what Digital Universe is trying to do, is difficult. You really need to be the first to do it, like eBay, Google and Wikipedia," says Pete Ashdown, of XMission, a successful Internet service provider...
Once you've sold a company for $2.6 billion, life on the beach can be tempting, particularly if you're Scandinavian. But for dotcom veterans Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennstrom, 40, whose sale of Skype to eBay rocketed them toward Gatesian wealth, the lure of a Great Leap Backward has proved stronger than sun and sand. Having launched Kazaa, one of the first music-file-sharing networks, in 2001 and Skype, the first big Internet-powered phone service, in 2003, the duo began work a year ago on a secret venture dubbed the Venice Project, whose goal...
While sites like Myspace and eBay emphasize a dizzying array of features and options, Joost opts for minimalism. Unlike YouTube, Joost has no user-generated content. Instead of video clips of rapping grandmas, crashing skateboarders and blathering strangers, Joost focuses on network-quality programs. And unlike Apple's iTunes, which sells TV shows and movies, Joost is free, though its content is peppered with one to three minutes of ads an hour. It's a 50-year-old broadcast model updated...
...exchanges abroad that provide an arena for trading small stocks. But unlike OTC bourses elsewhere, Vietnam's market has no licensed brokers, virtually no regulatory oversight, and trades often culminate with the exchange of cash for paper shares at a local tea shop. Think of it as an amorphous eBay for speculators, an ad hoc gray market that sprouted spontaneously from the pent-up desire among the Vietnamese to cash in on the country's economic boom. "It's the Wild West," says Noritaka Akamatsu, the World Bank's lead financial economist in Hanoi...
...result, I had to tell them a tiny, but believable lie about an accomplishment that they are more likely to be impressed with, such as the time my friends and I founded a little company that we called eBay. Another time you may have to lie is when an interviewer asks you what you think is your biggest weakness. Even though it may be true, it probably isn’t a good idea to tell the interviewer that, from time to time, you suffer from uncontrollable rage. My strategy for answering this question is to avoid it somewhat...