“We’re trying to raise the bar on interactive entertainment. We’re going to be a one-stop entertainment resource, but we’re going to have a little more fun with it.”
Scott Zakarin, creator of ur-cybersoap The Spot and now president of programming at AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, New York Times CyberTimes, 22 October 1997
“Once a business puts up an Internet store, all it needs are customers.”
Former Netscape CTO Marc Andreessen on his company’s end-to-end enterprise solutions, Netscape.com, 15 October 1997
“Well, I have to say, Lou, what we’re hearing out in the West is a big collective ‘duh!'”
CNN’s chief San Francisco correspondent Greg LeFevre, on Silicon Valley’s reaction to the Department of Justice’s antitrust action against Microsoft, CNN, 20 October 1997
“I’d like to thank everyone involved with the site — which would be me.”
Lance Arthur, whose Glassdog site won for best design, speaking on the collaborative nature of Web publishing at the second annual Cool Site of the Year Awards in San Francisco, 21 October 1997
“In no way do we violate members’ privacy. We’re able to reach our members with ads that they’re more interested in.”
Myer Berlow, senior VP of interactive marketing at America Online, on AOL’s questionable use of credit card databases to target banner ads to consumers, Advertising Age, 20 October 1997
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