“Do you think we’re a horrible company that gets up every day thinking of ways to go after artists?”
eToys spokesperson Ken Ross, on his johnny-.com-lately employer’s move to take away the domain name etoy.com from a group of artists, despite the fact they predate etoys.com by two years, USA Today, 15 December 1999
“There’s no such thing as a unique idea anymore.”
Jeffrey Bonforte, CEO of i-drive.com, a thoroughly unoriginal Net storage startup, Worth, December 1999
“I think there’s a very fine line between good service and stalking.”
Tara Lemmey, director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the art of online marketing, Nextravaganza conference, 14 December 1999
“We started as a search engine, so we know what people are looking for.”
Lycos executive Mark Stoever, on the Web network’s continuing inability to get users to stick with it, perhaps because it still hasn’t found what they’re looking for, ZDNN, 14 December 1999
“Sites realize that having content gives a site a sense of being something more than just someplace that’s selling something.”
iSyndicate cofounder Allison Hartsoe, explaining that information wants to be, um, something, San Francisco Examiner, 11 December 1999
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