OUR REACH EXCEEDED OUR GRASPING FOR A CLUE

“We had some earlier notions … about how Sidewalk would be everything related to local — community, news, traffic, commerce. We decided it was too broad.”

Matt Kursh, a business unit manager at MSN, on Microsoft’s decision to sell off Sidewalk to competitor Ticketmaster-Citysearch, ZDNN, 19 July 1999