Month: April 1998

“Netscape would make an excellent partner to Microsoft.”

Netscape CEO James Barksdale, on his choice of dancing partners to put some swing back in his company’s stock, Wired, April 1998

“Women will gravitate to sites that address certain central areas that they’re dealing with and deal with them in a unique way.”

Yvette DeBow, analyst with Jupiter Communications, showing the fruits of her employer’s careful market research, News.com, 7 April 1998

“People want to take information from multiple sources and take resulting output and have multiple destinations.”

Apple CEO du jour Steve Jobs, speaking at the National Associations of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, on Apple’s role in the multimedia universe, News.com, 6 April 1998

“Tonight was like building a Web site. We got a lot of people to work on it. Now we’ll take everything we learned and do it again next year.”

Marc Weiss, founder of Silicon Alley’s Web Development Fund, which promises to fill in the gaping money sinks that even gullible venture capitalists can’t be persuaded to back, on a recent “talent” show the fund hosted, New York Times, 6 April 1998

“We think that advertising designed to create brand awareness or corporate images is not going to work on the Web because it is a channel where you want to do something that you’ve already decided to do. So print is the right way to promote brand image and awareness.”

Pat McGovern, founder and chairman of trade publisher IDG, whose laughably bad Web sites certainly couldn’t be related to its lack of appeal to online advertisers, The European, 29 March 1998