27 February 2001

  • Dear god: a Napster rip-off that looks for unprotected hard-drives on the Web.
  • EToys files for bankruptcy.
  • AOL accounts for 1/3 of all time Americans spend online.
  • Targeting is hard to do: The Catch-22 of internet advertising.
  • Bertelsmann's back-up plan: Snoopstar, the Napster clone.
  • The official t-shirt for layed-offs.
  • Razorfish makes a stab at being the next PWC.
  • ESPN launches satire site to pull in visitors; forgets to be funny.
  • CueCat, the dumbest product I got for free, tries to buy The Simpsons.
  • Indiana Unversity alumni accounts get plundered.
  • Nintendo Europe gets defaced; Nintendo claims "no evidence of attack."
  • 3Com will cut 1,200 jobs.
  • Disney fouls again: 135 more cuts expected.
  • You must obey the state.
  • The Madonna Syndrome: America has re-made Buddhism in its own image: shallow, packaged, and soothing.
  • Oh! My! Lovely! I love Moccu.