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...latest poster child for dotcom misery, in case you're still keeping score at home, is eToys. Since the Grinch stole its Christmas season, it has been hunting for a buyer or a merger partner--anything to avoid bankruptcy. Employees are bracing for layoffs as the site unloads toys like Sing 'N Strum Barneys and Talking Wimzies for as much as 75% off. And the stock? Down from a 52-week high of $31.50 to about 20[cents]. Some folks have been taking perverse pleasure in seeing the dotcoms crash and burn. "Is anyone else morbidly watching this stock like...
Popcap is a three-man company run out of an apartment in Seattle. John Vechey, 22, its business manager, says the company is already profitable, making money two ways in the face of the dotcom downturn: from advertisements that flash on your screen while you play, and through licensing fees that other companies pay Popcap to use its games on their sites. Popcap's Tetris-like Diamondmine is the No. 1 game at MSN's GameZone (where it's called Bejeweled). When I visited there last Friday morning, 9,032 people were playing it. Bejeweled was too soft...
...began with all those Super Bowl dotcom commercials aimed at brand awareness, where you did in fact become aware of the brand. You just had no idea what the brand did. ("ProtoLink: the Enterprise Solution for Internet Strategy. Because the future is where decisions will be made.") And throughout the year there were more and more of those ads for prescription drugs that didn't supply the smallest clue to what disease the miracle drug was supposed to cure. ("Sue, have you tried Protozip? It sure worked for me!" "No, Donna, I haven't, but I'm going to call...
...KEDCOMPANY.COM Eve.com Pets.com Garden.com--this was the year their bright and shiny dotcom promises turned to bitter ashes. This website with its unprintable name that suggests an unseemly demise has become essential reading for its gleeful tracking of the Internet industry's dot bombs, layoff by layoff...
...Hollywood that includes John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise. Nearly 20% of the $15 billion that Hollywood is using to make films and videos this year has come from Germany, where in 1999 the words media project had the same dizzying effect on investors as dotcom...