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...corporate CEO Darien Dash is preaching the gospel of the Web to a crowd of teens at the Alexander Hamilton housing projects in Paterson, N.J. Knowing that for many of these kids the closest model of financial success is the local drug dealer, this 29-year-old dotcom entrepreneur speaks to them in language he knows they understand. "The new hustle," declares Dash, "is technology...
...NASDAQ crash may have left New York City's Silicon Alley a boulevard of broken dreams, but William O'Shea, 24, is one dotcom entrepreneur who hasn't been discouraged. O'Shea and two friends came up with the idea for their new company, RedFilter, last year in his Brooklyn apartment. O'Shea calls it "a remote control for the Internet": go to RedFilter's website, enter your age, pick the subjects you're interested in, and RedFilter spits back a series of sites custom-picked for your tastes. RedFilter's survival secret: it sells its filter technology to other...
...users know, MP3's on Napster are often misidentified and of poor quality. If Napster distributed songs off its own servers, which it could do legitimately in the future, it could ensure their quality and reliability. Just months ago P2P seemed an ascendant technology on the mind of every entrepreneur in Silicon Valley; now it appears as just a temporary solution to a sclerotic industry...
...committee of five Corporation members--two lawyers, two professors and one retired New York entrepreneur, led by Francis H. Burr '35--immediately set to work, sending out 203,000 letters to alumni, faculty and students, asking the community to help compile a list of candidates. They received 1,200 names--800 more than the search committee received this year. The search committee spent more than 30 hours each week on the selection...
Minimalism's master entrepreneur is up to his Fifth Symphony, a multicultural choral fresco on spiritual texts, newly recorded by Dennis Russell Davies and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Like all Glass's other pieces, it consists of the chug-chug repetition of slowly shifting harmonies, ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Alas, what sounded fresh (or at least different) 20 years ago is now as agonizingly familiar as a Hemingway parody. Same old same old same old same...