Word: sites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheer surrounding his birthday, there seemed only the vaguest concession to mortality from the former President. When he was studying a landing site for his parachute jump near the Bush presidential library grounds at Texas A&M, he suddenly pointed to a small grove of trees near a pond. "That's where Barbara and I will be buried," he said. But his voice had its usual verve, as if to say that even that would be an adventure...
...investors who really count in the IPO game are institutions, and they've all made plenty of money by buying at the IPO price. They will continue buying. There is little reason for issuers to pull back, and few have. Last week Drkoop.com a consumer health-care site headed by the former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, doubled the first day, proving that a good story still sells. High-profile CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has announced that he will resign to start Space.com proving that entrepreneurs still believe there's time to build a Net company and cash...
...think it's a bad market for quality companies," says Jay Walker, founder of Priceline.com a money-losing e-commerce site whose value soared 10-fold, to $23 billion, a month after its March IPO and is now at $13 billion. "If eBay went out today, it would still soar. But the fantasy stocks are back where they belong. People are looking for real traction, real sales, real growth." And maybe a little panache...
...Today's fantasy worlds are designed by software gurus, are presented on the Web and swarm with tens of thousands of players. The result is virtual societies like Ultima Online, which in two years amassed 125,000 players so fervent that pieces of exclusive real estate on the Ultima site--think of it as the Ultima in-game equivalent of a duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side--regularly sell on eBay for more than...
Echoes of the site's former uses--it was built in the 19th century for a textile printer and then became the home of an electric firm--ring through the place in deeper chords than the sound installation that mimics the tones of the old clock tower. One 18-ft.-high-ceilinged room was used to generate lightning to test the capacitors the electric firm made. Now video artist Tony Oursler has annexed that space for a talking-light-bulb piece. "We have yet to have an artist who comes here who doesn't have a big idea," says Thompson...