MetaFilter posts tagged with bust

What's that in dog sock-puppet years?

jamaro — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:44:37 -0800

The :CueCat finally received its patent this month, eight years after its abject failure in the marketplace. Once touted by its marketers as the missing link between newsprint and the world wide web, over a million :CueCat handheld barcode scanners were given away in 2000 by select retailers and newspaper and magazine publishers. The plan was for users to use their CueCat to scan barcodes appended to printed stories and advertising in order to launch a related website. The cat-shaped scanner also sent a unique identifier intended to allow Digital:Convergence, the company behind it, to package and sell users' browsing habits and demographics to advertisers. Trying to solve a problem nobody really needed solved and faced with significant privacy concerns, adoption of the Cuecat was limited. Today, neutered CueCats live a peaceful second life helping collectors catalog their books and media discs.

ZOMBIE BOOB TUBE TELEVISION

Sticherbeast — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:43:16 -0800

They claimed they would destroy all television with their business. $100 million and one cast member of First Kid later, all they had were massive amounts of failure, tremendous parties with Bryan Singer, and many, many, many allegations of sexual molestation. Now they hide in the Spanish Riviera and hire Chinese sweatshop workers to mine for World of Warcraft items. Check as well the original 2000 LA Times expose on the company, to say nothing of the "gay pedophile version of Silver Spoons" which remains their finest artistic achievement. via boingboing I also thank who I assume is MeFi's Own meehawl's link to this summary of the events. (NSFW)

Goodbye Rosie, The Queen of Corona

fandango_matt — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:03:47 -0800

Overgrow.com --one of the largest and most comprehensive sites written by and for cannabis growers about cannabis cultivation, complete with user forums and immense photo galleries--along with Heaven's Stairway Seeds (hempqc.com), Cannabisworld.com, and Eurohemp.com have all been shut down, their owners arrested in Canada, and the servers seized. The story hasn't yet made the Canadian news, but it raises many questions about free speech online.

George W. Bush or Bust...

panoptican — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:41:54 -0800

In the market for a George W. Bush bust? That's what I figured. Luckily, you have some ch oi ces. And if you're little Bush head gets lonely, you could get Lincoln, Washington, Quayle (if you don't mind stealing), and the rest of the gang to join him. Just make sure you have a couple thousand to spare.

sib — Wed, 01 May 2002 00:47:22 -0800

This new trading card game takes an ironic look a a bunch of "Bad Ideas" from the dot-com boom and bust. The object is to remain in business as long as possible by raising money from VC's and forcing your opponents to spend resources on developing bad ideas... You can't actually generate any revenue, of course :-)

costas — Tue, 19 Mar 2002 04:21:13 -0800

Is Silicon Valley coming back? Newsweek's cover story this week is the return of Silicon Valley after the Bust of 2000, start-ups and all. Does this new round of hype have any morsels of truth to it?

TiggleTaggleTiger — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 09:57:07 -0800

Curmudgeon revels in the dot-com carnage.

zedzebedia — Tue, 04 Sep 2001 08:27:03 -0800

Death rears its ugly head on all those who try to carve a bust of Dan Quayle.

LAM — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 17:21:57 -0800

Optimism: Was the bust really a Bust (See below)? Douglas Rushkoff doesn't think so. But then, he's a pretty optimistic guy, if you ask me. (Warning, his article links to MetaFilter... Does that count as a self-link?)