Would you buy a light bulb online? Well, check www.topbulb.com and see with your own very eyes that ecommerce ain't dead yet (link via Rafe Needleman).
A friend of mine is having an interesting start-up in the media platform space: Zinek. I must admit that I have started to get excited about the possibilities of a set of flat screens, a publishing platform and a combination of rich media content and advertisment. The target group will be hanging around the hotspots such as night clubs, bars, coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, ferries etc. I should be surprised if we are not starting to see media targeting for this type of retail segmenting soon. Enough said...
Jim Clark is leaving Valley. The legendary IPO mania was started by Netscape and mainly due to some funding requirements elsewhere (a boat to be exact). You can read the whole story from the New New Thing. So, Jim got tired of the boring athmosphere and is relocating to Florida. Hmmm. I just wonder how much there is to do if Valley was not enough...
Posted at August 19, 2003 07:34 PM