The Future of the .com Industry

I own a small business doing graphic and web design and over the last decade trends have changed quite dramatically, leading to new types of online business models and other assorted anomolies. Originally the internet was primarily used for selling products and information gathering, hence the rise of Ebay, Amazon and sales websites that were geared towards "work at home businesses". Viewers were new to the net and had not yet become cynical about hard sell advertising or scams. On the other hand, viewers felt a bit iffy about security concerns to do with banks and using their credit cards online. This led to business conducted and sealed on the net ...  Read the complete review

For certain reasons I spend a lot of time with younger men, preferrably around age 18 or 19 if possible or they can be as old as 25 if they look younger especially if they look like Brad Pitt, it makes me feel older sometimes, I am only 35 but I look 32, but it seems so odd to me open my mouth and use the turn of phrase "before the internet". These younger men have all grown up in the world where they have been able to be chatted up online by 57 year old obese lorry drivers from Denver instead of having a class project where they get stuck writing real letters with pencils and paper to some jerk in the same year at school somewhere across the country, They ...  Read the complete review

We all remember the stock market flying through the roof during the boom of the internet or .com industries. I'll begin by explaining for those of you who don't know. In the example of Amazon and such, the idea that a company could reach billions of customers world-wide astounded many. So when Amazon went live and people actually started buying from them online, investors went mad. It was assumed that because the internet could be seen by billions, Amazon would have the biggest possible target audience and so would make more money than anyone had ever dreamed of. So the stock market prices went up, the news reporters were sent scrabbling for a paper and ...  Read the complete review

I have written many reviews for Dooyoo. One of my Dooyoo reviews got 2528 reads from non-members. Some of my reviews have been copied to other sites and read all over the world. Most of my reviews have been rated very useful. However, Dooyoo has not paid me and does not reply to my e-mails. My blogs get many more readers than I could get from Dooyoo. My blogs earn me more money more quickly than with Dooyoo. Should I remove my reviews from Dooyoo? Should I write about Dooyoo on my blogs? I could point out that Dooyoo used to be more user-friendly. But now Dooyoo has become outdated, because of ...  Read the complete review

Having been a user of the Internet for a number of years, I feel comfortable when talking of the future of the .com industry. Let us first look back to the heady days of the late 90’s. The Internet was seen as the next great revolution, companies poured billions upon billions of pounds into this global phenomenon. What the moneymen did not realise at the time was a lot of the fledgling .com companies were all striving for a corner of a market where the rules had yet to be defined. The directors of these companies often found themselves with lots of cash and no real direction, I must emphasise that this was not the fault of either the directors or the ...  Read the complete review