CoRank Rankin Family
It's deja vu all over again. Have you heard about coRank?
In February, 1996, at Internet World in San Jose, teaser site Pointcast had just launched. And for about five minutes, in Internet time, it was the only thing that mattered.
It was the YouTube of its day. It had everyone in the dot com world running scared — either trying to beat it, or be it.
And then, just before any one of the major search engine companies back then (Excite, Infoseek, Magellan, Webcrawler, and Open Text) could get their acts together and buy it, it fizzled.
The buzzword in Pointcast's day was push technology.
The buzzword in coRank's day is user-generated content.
Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. I wish you luck, coRank. You're going to need it. The glory days of Money for Nothing are gone.
In February, 1996, at Internet World in San Jose, teaser site Pointcast had just launched. And for about five minutes, in Internet time, it was the only thing that mattered.
It was the YouTube of its day. It had everyone in the dot com world running scared — either trying to beat it, or be it.
And then, just before any one of the major search engine companies back then (Excite, Infoseek, Magellan, Webcrawler, and Open Text) could get their acts together and buy it, it fizzled.
The buzzword in Pointcast's day was push technology.
The buzzword in coRank's day is user-generated content.
Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. I wish you luck, coRank. You're going to need it. The glory days of Money for Nothing are gone.
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