tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17800347311084121402011-11-06T02:58:15.453+02:00A collection of Articles and Texts from around the net for my personal reference. Feel free to have a look and to comment.CasparOnlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11667533401459085046noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780034731108412140.post-57881134486617381472007-02-04T17:35:00.001+02:002010-03-11T12:53:54.139+02:00<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">March 2010 Update:</span> WIRED magazine salutes the 10 years since the bust <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/10yearsafter/all/1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">view>></span></span><br /></a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.nethistory.info/ui/nethistory.gif" title="Net History" alt="Net History" align="left" height="40" hspace="2" vspace="4" width="150" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Dotcom bubble</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Ian Peter pinpoints the beginning of the bubble in the early 90's, and Interactive TV as it's first vehicle.</span><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Not since the South Sea Island bubble in the 1700s had western economies experienced anything like the dotcom economic bubble. Suddenly everyone wanted a piece of the action; normally astute investors went crazy, and mums and dads added to the frenzy.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Read more </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/dotcom.html" title="more" alt="more">>></a></span></blockquote><br /><hr align="center" noshade="noshade" size="1" width="90%"><br /><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f3/35px-Wikipedia-logo.png" alt="Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia" align="left" height="35" hspace="2" vspace="4" width="35" /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Dot-com bubble</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The "dot-com bubble" was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 during which stock markets in Western nations saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new Internet sector and related fields.</span><br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The dot-com model was inherently flawed: a vast number of companies all had the same business plan of monopolizing their respective sectors through network effects, and it was clear that even if the plan was sound, there could only be at most one network-effects winner in each sector...<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Read more </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="more" alt="more">>></a></span></blockquote><br /><hr align="center" noshade="noshade" size="1" width="90%"><br /><img src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sitelogos/GU_technology_site_logo.gif" alt="Guardian Online" title="Guardian Online" align="left" height="60" hspace="2" width="120" /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Looking back on the Crash</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >On the fifth anniversary of the dotcom collapse, Chris Alden reflects on the hysteria and hubris that fuelled the boom</span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">...Europeans were at a disadvantage. "You needed to be at the epicentre to make money," Hersov says. "You needed to be based in Seattle or Silicon Valley, and you needed to have launched something in 1997. For anyone else who launched two years after that, it was very difficult to get a technical platform, team in place, revenue stream, path to profitability, go public, cash out" <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Read more </span></span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1433697,00.html" title="more" alt="more">>></a></span><br /><br /></blockquote><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Enhanced reading</span><br /><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html">What the Bubble got right</a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">By Paul Graham (Sep-2004)</span></span><br /></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=836761">Doing Math While Watching the Dot-Bombs Fall</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">By Sean Carton on Clickz Networks</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> (7-Feb-2001)</span></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=823551">Chapter11.com</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">By Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila on Clickz Networks (28-Apr-2000)</span></span></span></li></ul><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Moving On</span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html">What is Web 2.0</a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">by Tim O'Reilly (30-Sep-2005)</span></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/15/BUBBLE.TMP">This dot-com bubble seems to have more staying power</a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">by Dan Frost on SFGate.com (15-Oct-2006)<br /></span></span></span></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1780034731108412140-5788113448661738147?l=textheaven.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>CasparOnlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11667533401459085046noreply@blogger.com1