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	sp!ked-IT \| Article \| From dotcom boom to dotgloom
		The dotcom collapse is as overhyped as the 'IT revolution', says Phil Mullan in the concluding part of his series demystifying the 'information society'.
		The about-turn in sentiment towards the internet from the dotcom frenzy of 1999 and early 2000 to the dotcom gloom of today, is significant in illustrating not just the shallowness of the earlier hype, but the strength of the social impulse to rein back.
		The catalyst for all this was the puncturing of the dotcom bubble during the spring and summer of 2000 followed by a more generalised fall in TMT company share prices from September 2000.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/000000005496.htm (3155 words)

	Dot-com bubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historically, the dot-com boom can be seen as similar to a number of other technology-inspired booms of the past including railroads in the 1840s, automobiles and radio in the 1920s, transistor electronics in the 1950s, computer time-sharing in the 1960s, and home computers and biotechnology in the early 1980s.
		The late 1990s boom in technology dot-com company stocks is a good example of a bubble, which burst in the Spring of 2000 and through 2001.
		At the height of the boom, it was possible for a promising dot-com to make an initial public offering (IPO) of its stock and raise a substantial amount of money even though it had never made a profit - or in some cases - even any revenues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dotcom_boom (2336 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Dotcom shares still spook investors
		I will always look back on the dotcom boom with a smile, as I remember gullible, stupid, greedy investors thinking that they were going to totally clean up by investing millions in startups with no clear business plan beyond putting ".com" on the end of something.
		The dotcom boom was very similar to the automobile boom in the 1920s.
		As a young IT graduate in the dotcom boom era, I ended up working for a staid but reliable investment bank whilst my friends joined dotcoms and waxed lyrically about their perks and lifestyles.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4333899.stm (2486 words)

	Dotcom boom and bust tops list of Internet watersheds -- Middle East Times
		The committee that decides the awards - the self-proclaimed Oscars of the Internet - chose the dotcom boom and bust as the most eventful episode over the past decade.
		Launched by Netscape's IPO in 1995, the boom spurred billions of dollars in private investment in the Internet, new technologies, marketing and fiber optic cable and led to the development of such landmark sites as Google.
		The number nine spot was taken by the 175 percent increase in both members and revenue recorded between 2001 and 2002 by the leading US Internet dating site Match.com, which underlined the Web's dominance of the social connections scene.
	www.metimes.com /print.php?StoryID=20051109-040252-9554r (326 words)

	The jobs boom party is on
		While the comparison with the dotcom boom days may be a little premature at this stage, the huge upswing in the jobs market is clear.
		For instance, during the dotcom days, most of the hiring by the Indian firms was for "bodyshopping", as these companies later sub-contracted their software engineers to foreign firms.
		While salaries have already gone up substantially in view of the "middle-level talent shortage," a Watson Wyatt Work India survey across 53 companies says a whopping 78 per cent of employees are unhappy with their compensation and feel that rewards are not in line with performance.
	in.rediff.com /money/2004/dec/17guest.htm (741 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Has the dotcom boom returned?
		At first glance, this seems to be a repeat of the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, when $2bn per week was flowing into the venture capital firms of Silicon Valley.
		However, there are a number of differences between the first internet boom and the current one, not least the fact that the companies that survived - such as eBay, Yahoo, and Amazon - tended to dominate their market niche.
		Vitally, the new boom is not being led by IPOs on the stock market, when new companies float their shares to gain capital.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/6036337.stm (852 words)

	Guardian \| Dotcom boom redux: the great cyber land grab
		Dotcom boom redux: the great cyber land grab
		Five years after the dotcom boom and bust, newspaper groups are once again scrambling to turn the internet from a threat into a competitive advantage.
		After losing vast sums on the net in the heady days of 2000, print groups are now returning to the medium wiser to the pitfalls and appropriate dotcom valuations.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5276117-103676,00.html (953 words)

	From Fluff to Functional: Dotcom Titles Evolve - Tech & IT Job Resources from Monster.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The dotcom boom ushered in a variety of new job roles, from HTML coders to chat managers.
		Compared to other techno-titles, such as junior programmer or PC technician, dotcom jobs were in flux, evolving as the Internet morphed from the domain of academics and scientists into a mass medium.
		A number of dotcom job titles aren't just confusing, but they also possess some uncertainty about their relevance to the bottom line.
	technology.monster.com /articles/dotcomtitle (704 words)

	Telegraph \| Money \| LSE surpassing dotcom boom in record year
		The London Stock Exchange is experiencing its most successful year in its history - surpassing even the highs of the dotcom boom - due to the strength of the new issues market.
		The British bourse has seen firms floating on its markets raise £17.8bn in the seven months to July, meaning a record year is in play.
		In the whole of 2000 - the peak of the dotcom boom - firms listing on the LSE raised £17.4bn.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/08/09/cnlse09.xml (148 words)

	The age of surveillance: a new “dotcom boom”? William Davies - openDemocracy
		As moronic and greedy as the dotcom boom and its associated fripperies may have been, there was an innocence about all of that investment and innovation, as if the benefits would flow later somehow or other.
		It could be that we are about to enter the equivalent of a dotcom boom in surveillance technologies.
		But a boom would inevitably be followed by a crash in confidence in technology.
	www.opendemocracy.net /conflict-terrorism/digital_2719.jsp (1304 words)

	book review of sonic boom- the hypermedia research centre - University of Westminster
		In Sonic Boom, John Alderman tells the cautionary tale of a rich and powerful industry which was determined not to "get it" - and how it suffered the consequences of this mistake.
		Sonic Boom is a journalist's account of this transitional period in media history.
		As Sonic Boom emphasises, this utopian vision of ubiquitous peer-to-peer computing inspired the emergence of a new youth subculture in the late-1990s.
	www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk /theory-sonicboom.html (3218 words)

	Communications From Elsewhere » Blog Archive » Benefits of the dotcom boom
		I sometimes bitch and moan about having missed the dotcom boat; a number of folks I know made lots of money working for startups, and I made diddly-squat.
		So, what I got out of the dotcom boom was a kickass job (with a career path, even) that’s paying me twice what I was making a few years ago, at a time when 90% of white male workers are doing worse than we would have 20 years ago.
		I hit the middle of the dotcom boom and spent five years getting crammed anally and making a lot of executives rich, and my reward was nine months of unemployment and getting to be less than two months from being homeless before I got a job temping at Microsoft.
	www.elsewhere.org /journal/archives/2002/02/25/benefits-of-the-dotcom-boom (921 words)

	The Holistic Web » Dotcom Boom 2.0
		I worked through the dotcom boom for a few companies ranging from a failed startup through to helping manage a relaunch of MSN globally.
		Secondly, and slightly more controversially, a lot of the dotcom boom was driven by techies.
		The point is lots of techies are missing the point of Dotcom Boom 2.0, focussing too much on the technology and less on how the technology is enabling average users to do really cool stuff.
	www.useyourweb.com /blog/?p=67 (380 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Business \| \| Star of dotcom boom is arrested
		The one-time Wall Street star was accused of hindering federal investigations into the allocation of shares in hotly demanded initial public offerings during the boom of the late 1990s.
		The dotcom boom made celebrities of formerly anonymous bankers.
		During the boom, IPOs commonly showed massive first-day gains, allowing holders of the shares to make a fast profit.
	business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,3604,942201,00.html (566 words)

	Is the dotcom boom back? - Internet & Telecom - News - Tech News - Indiatimes Infotech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		NEW DELHI: This year clearly marks the second coming of dotcom companies in India judging by how heavily private equity investors and VCs are pumping money.
		So whether it is a Kleiner Perkins, Norwest, Westbridge or Reliance Capital, their funds have been directed towards the back-in-vogue Internet.
		Dotcoms fit the bill when it comes to ideation and entrepreneurship.
	infotech.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1515071.cms (479 words)

	Ah, the Boom and Bust - those were the days...
		Ah, the Boom and Bust - those were the days...
		The dotcom boom and bust has been voted the most influential Internet moment of the past 10 years, by organisers of the annual Webby Awards:
		Though now often synonymous with failures like Pets.com and Boo.com, the dotcom boom and bust was critical to fast-tracking the spread and popularity of the Internet.
	www.readwriteweb.com /archives/ah_the_boom_and.php (276 words)

	Attrition higher than in dotcom boom - Sify.com
		The buoyancy in the technology sector and hectic pace of recruitment is good news for job seekers.
		This development is certainly not so pleasant for technology companies - which are currently faced with higher rates of attrition than in the dizzy dotcom boom time, as some recent trends indicate.
		The best part, however, is that the sector players are not serious about this as they perceive this as a way of life.
	sify.com /finance/fullstory.php?id=13373295 (530 words)

	Metroactive Dining \| Village Pub
		THE DOTCOM boom was the golden age for Bay Area restaurants.
		But when the boom went bust, the receding economic tide sank a number of restaurants.
		It was a beloved Woodside institution for decades before the dotcom boom, but it really came into regional prominence after reopening after a three-year hiatus in 2001 and reinventing itself as a fine dining restaurant.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.01.06/dining-0605.html (1019 words)

	Samit’s world of enterprise accounting » Dotcom Boom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is an article on the dotcom boom and what all were the biggest failures.
		Amount of money which is mentioned in these articles as raised by these dotcoms is huge.
		Found one of the great fads in the internet during dotcom boom.
	www.samitranjan.com /?p=26 (277 words)

	Web 2.0: Rebooting the DotCom Boom - Harry Chen Thinks Aloud
		My memory of the last DotCom boom is fading.
		But, I think a new DotCom boom is about to begin.
		From a business perspective, I think the new DotCom boom will be driven by acquisitions as oppose as to IPO.
	harry.hchen1.com /2006/03/30/308 (681 words)

	The Webby Awards :: Looking Back on Historic Ten Years, The 10th Annual Webby Awards Unveil 10 Web Moments That Changed ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Launched by Netscape's IPO in 1995, the dotcom boom spurred trillions of dollars in private investments into the internet, marketing, and fiber optic cable and led to the development of new technologies and such landmark sites as Google.
		Though now often synonymous with failures like Pets.com and Boo.com, The Webby Awards placed the "dotcom boom and bust" at the top of its list in recognition of the critical role it played in fast-tracking the spread and popularity of the internet.
		"While this period was painful for some, the dotcom boom was responsible for catapulting the internet into the mainstream, wiring the world, and bringing hundreds of millions of people online in a very short period of time," said Tiffany Shlain, founder of The Webby Awards.
	sev.prnewswire.com /entertainment/20051108/NYTU05008112005-1.html (1361 words)

	Internet Firms: Party Like It's 1999? - E-Commerce - CFO.com
		Yet anyone now hoping for a revival of the dotcom boom is in for a disappointment.
		PayPal's successful IPO is, instead, a sign that investors have finally figured out the ingredients of a winning dotcom, having first bet uncritically on anything even remotely Internet-related, and then having equally indiscriminately dumped the shares of all Internet firms.
		That is not to say that e-tailers cannot be profitable—Amazon recently posted its first ever quarterly profit, of $5.1m—but it is hard, as the bankruptcies of eToys, Webvan and many others attest.
	www.cfo.com /article.cfm/3003522?f=archives (688 words)

	Dot Com Bust
		As someone who lived the dotcom boom, I can say with great conviction that the internet startups did not fail because, as Stefan asserts, they "did not have any infrastructure and they did not have any business plan."
		First, there is no one reason for the demise of all dotcoms.
		I have worked for two dotcom startups, both of whom are still around, at least one of which is almost profitable.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?DotComBust (1077 words)

	The Dotcom and Telco Bubbles: Overview
		the dotcom page looks at dotcom companies, highlighting particular incidents, valuations and consequences.
		landmarks highlights particular incidents during the dotcom decade.
		A History of the Boom, 1982-1999 (New York: HarperBusiness 2004), Vincent Mosco's The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press 2004) and Roger Lowenstein's broader Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing (New York: Penguin Press 2004).
	www.caslon.com.au /boomprofile.htm (1327 words)

	Investors still reeling from cost of dotcom "boom"
		Five years to the day from the epicentre of the dotcom enthusiasm, investors are still counting the cost.
		One darling of the dotcom boom was internet auction site QXL Ricardo, which was worth £1.5bn (2.2bn) four years ago before the technology bubble burst.
		Hilary Cook of Barclays Stockbrokers said: “I think we have already seen a tech boom in the United States — the Nasdaq has had a very good run — but the problem is we (in the UK) don’t have many quoted tech companies any more.
	www.finfacts.com /irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1000807.shtml (1029 words)

	SARS spread could mean mini dotcom boom - smh.com.au
		SARS spread could mean mini dotcom boom - smh.com.au
		The spread of SARS could usher in a mini dotcom boom, Austrade said today, as businesses replaced face-to-face meetings with teleconferences and webcasts.
		The World Trade Organisation has downgraded its trade growth forecast to 2.5 per cent this year, from three per cent, citing the impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and the war in Iraq.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/01/1051382036833.html (340 words)

	Dotcom boom 'just beginning' \| This is Money
		THE internet boom will return - and it will be bigger and more profitable than the first time round.
		Arthur recently wrote that the tech boom was 'merely one in a series of technological revolutions that have been occurring since the mid-18th Century'.
		If this estimate is correct - and the economic historians think it is on the right track - then the Internet boom at the turn of the last millennium could prove to be a mere prelude to the serious money still to be made in cyberspace.
	www.thisismoney.com /20020303/nm45033.html (660 words)

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