links for 2006-11-30
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Tristan Louis, who worked at the original Boo.com bust seven years ago, explains why Boo.com can make a comeback. The reason: Boo failed because an immature internet was forcing it to build services we take for granted today, problems modern web compani
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The latest version lets you stream all sorts of video formats to the Xbox 360, completely independent of Windows Media Center. This I gotta try.
Your site is really badly broken in Firefox2. Are you dumb or something
Comment by anonymous | November 30, 2006
Boo was a peek at the Web of the next decade.
They optimized it for 56k modems and used a Java Applet during the days of 166MHz -
to do what FLASH or AJAX does with virtually no real impact on today’s common 1.5GHz 512MB Ram PCs.
The idea was innovative, and the Lead developers and Engineers were geniuses for their creativity and foresight.
It was just a case of too much ‘developer savy’ and not enough ‘Business Savy’.
Butm interestingly enough, the very week of the companies dissolving, many of their programmers were offerred positions at other start-ups.
Comment by SearcH EngineS WeB | November 30, 2006
Anonymous: Are you a regular reader of this blog? It is well known the design and quality issues of the site, and they are being corrected.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | December 1, 2006