Comments on: Flying the Dot-Com Skies

Flying the Dot-Com Skies

b1tr0t — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:33:57 -0800

It has been four years since the dot-coms crashed, sweeping ideas like mylacky.com, pets.com and kozmo.com into the circular file. The remaining survivors have been remarkably successful. Google owns the search space and has redefined web mail. Orbitz and Expedia take most of the pain out of travel planning and reservations. Tenzing has spent close to half a decade pushing for IFE certification for Linux. Once properly certified, they built a system light enough, cheap enough, and reliable enough for installation aboard aircraft. All this effort just so you can read email the next time you travel by air. Aerospace giant Boeing is hard at work on a similar product but their demonstration is far more limited than start-up Tenzing's. (no, not that Tenzing)

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:38:12 -0800

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:31:03 -0800

The pictures they use to illustrate their website made me wince.

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:58:10 -0800

Some other forums have mentioned that you can get online for free by entering the following login code: 20000103257652.

By: riffola

riffola — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:01:46 -0800

If I am not badly mistaken, Orbitz, Hotwire.com, and Priceline are all owned by the same company.

By: fleener

fleener — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:20:04 -0800

Google has redefined web mail? You must be joking. They launched a fantastic marketing campaign by creating a scarcity and mystique that duped people into thinking they were getting something great instead of a rookie service. I was very very very excited when I finally received a gmail invite, then very very disappointed that it was all hype.

By: majcher

majcher — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:12:25 -0800

I just wanted to say that I really, really, really miss Kozmo. That is all.

By: majick

majick — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:14:08 -0800

I want to say that I really miss Webvan. Not the shitty-selection-two-hour-delivery-window-we-opened-too-many-markets Webvan. The Webvan from before that, with the produce better than available in most supermarkets, the half hour delivery windows, the same day schedule, and the custom deli. That is all.

By: majick

majick — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:15:55 -0800

I don't, however, miss the orbitz.com that used to be a marketing site for a drink with plastic pieces floating around in it.

By: ricecrazy

ricecrazy — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:02:41 -0800

No, Hotwire is owned by InterActiveCorp. Not sure about Priceline or Orbitz, but I don't think they're owned by the same company, and it's definitely not IAC. IAC also owns Expedia, TripAdvisor, and Hotels.com though.

By: pieoverdone

pieoverdone — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 06:16:47 -0800

Sniff. Suck.com.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:27:29 -0800

Sniff. CDNow.com before Amazon bought it. Theirs is the only dotcom freebie t-shirt I own. I wonder how long that code will remain active, if it's true.

By: kindall

kindall — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 08:37:36 -0800

I was very very very excited when I finally received a gmail invite, then very very disappointed that it was all hype. You must not have used it very much. 1) 1 gigabyte of storage 2) Speedy, keyboard-navigable UI 3) Conversation threading 4) Labels instead of folders 5) Google-class search All of these things make Gmail best-of-breed in Web mail services and the new bar which other services will have to meet. Of course, those features, while cool, still make it 99% useless to me, since I don't feel like I really have my mail until it's on my computer, but several people I know have switched over to it full-time from their ISP's mail account.