Month: January 1998

“Yes, it’s very worthwhile to get all this info online – but ultimately it’s about relationships.”

Stacy Horn, founder and spokesmodel-in-chief of the East Coast Hang Out (ECHO) and author of Cyberville, sharing her deep insights into computer-mediated communications, The Village Voice, 21 January 1998

“Snap’s strategy is to be ubiquitous. We want to be in front of as many consumers as possible.”

Karen Wood, CNET’s flack-in-chief, on her company’s plan to put front doors online where there aren’t any walls, Wired News, 21 January 1998

“[PICS]’s intent is certainly not as a tool for government control, but as a tool for user control.”

Tim Berners-Lee, head of the World Wide Web Consortium, on the purpose of the Platform for Internet Content Selection, a Web-page blocking standard, The New York Times, 19 January 1998

“We’re having to lay off 400 people. In some companies, that takes six months. In Netscape, that takes three weeks.”

Mike Homer, Netscape’s vice president of marketing, on his company’s dispatch in lowering its headcount, San Francisco Examiner, 18 January 1998

“What impresses me most about Ditherati is that it is losing less money than all the public Internet companies combined.”

Andrew Anker, CEO of the company formerly known as HotWired, commenting on Ditherati’s ability to relaunch its site only six months after its first appearance, in a statement made for a Ditherati Communications press release, 19 January 1998