http://www.blogherald.com/2006/11/27/boocom-is-back-in-2007-fear-the-bubble/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:53:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/11/27/boocom-is-back-in-2007-fear-the-bubble/comment-page-1/#comment-135988 Insider Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:24:14 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/11/27/boocom-is-back-in-2007-fear-the-bubble/#comment-135988 Not gonna say alot on this, but the domain was bought by another company and they intend to jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon and launch in Jan (although I would be surprised if they could get their stuff together in time). If you ask me, the combo of the domain and the company behind it mean that it won't work out - watch the money burn again Not gonna say alot on this, but the domain was bought by another company and they intend to jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon and launch in Jan (although I would be surprised if they could get their stuff together in time).
If you ask me, the combo of the domain and the company behind it mean that it won’t work out – watch the money burn again

]]> http://www.blogherald.com/2006/11/27/boocom-is-back-in-2007-fear-the-bubble/comment-page-1/#comment-135591 Why the Boo.comeback makes sense Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:02:00 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/11/27/boocom-is-back-in-2007-fear-the-bubble/#comment-135591 [...] There has been much discussion lately, most of it negative, about the comeback of boo.com and once again, I find myself on the opposite side of the shared wisdom. Before I go into reasons as to why I think a comeback by Boo.com (a boo.comeback?) makes sense, let me first go into my unique qualifications to make such an assessment: I happen to have worked at Boo.com in the past and I was the insider who exposed some of the challenges the company had faced. I spent a fair amount of my time, in 2000 and 2001, talking at conferences about the lessons learned from this failure and I think that some of those are now fixed. [...] [...] There has been much discussion lately, most of it negative, about the comeback of boo.com and once again, I find myself on the opposite side of the shared wisdom. Before I go into reasons as to why I think a comeback by Boo.com (a boo.comeback?) makes sense, let me first go into my unique qualifications to make such an assessment: I happen to have worked at Boo.com in the past and I was the insider who exposed some of the challenges the company had faced. I spent a fair amount of my time, in 2000 and 2001, talking at conferences about the lessons learned from this failure and I think that some of those are now fixed. [...]

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