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Post number 6910

paladin — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:44:21 -0800

eCompany's "Boo! And the 100 Other Dumbest Moments in e-Business History". Some of these are just hilarious.

By: holgate

holgate — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:08:39 -0800

Well, it's always nice to see such 20:20 hindsight, without a hint of mea culpa. At least Linus Torvalds has a nice comment elsewhere on the site: -Is the boom over? -Do bears shit in the woods? I'd like to see that one run on CNBC.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:15:59 -0800

My favorite is #38.. eCompanies launches eParties, a party planning site, in October 1999. Its business rationale? The 9-year-old daughter of co-founder Jake Winebaum thinks it's a good idea. The company is later sold to eToys. For stock.

By: o2b

o2b — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:12:43 -0800

My fave: In June 1999, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announces plans to create a housewares and home-furnishings e-tailing portal, into which he will herd his latte-swilling legions. "We're going, with great precision and discipline, to drive the physical community that exists in our stores to the Web," Schultz announces. Starbucks's shares drop nearly 30 percent on the news.

By: briank

briank — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:14:29 -0800

At least my employer wasn't on the list.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:24:58 -0800

Surprisingly, when I voted for drkoop.com as the worst blunder of all, I found out that it was rates tenth of ten possible "worst of all" mistakes...dunno - to think that a man who briefly held a post as the surgeon general would be able to generate mucho traffic just sort of baffles me...I mean, can anyone out there name any other surgeon general? Since Koop, we've had Elders, Novello, and Satcher, and I certainly can't imagine them getting their own site/s. And as far as naming 100 of the biggest mistakes in web history...that's just plain misleading, since about 1/2 of them are merely continuations of previously listed items. Nitpicking? Sure, but so is ecompany.com.

By: frednorman

frednorman — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:30:57 -0800

What's hamsterdance.com doing on this list, anyway? :-)