Cyber-Soap Returns From The Dead

An anonymous reader submits "Back in 1995, an experimental "cyber-soap" had a wildly successful launch. With over a million page hits a day (an almost unheard-of amount of traffic at the time), The Spot was named "Cool Site of the Year" in 1995, and by all appearances was a huge success. As was the case for many projects of the time, though, by 1997 The Spot was gone, another victim of the dot-com bust. However, unlike other dot-com projects, The Spot has been given new life, un der new ownership, and was relaunched in March. Can the Spot, a unique blend of soap opera, blog, and reality show, survive this time around, or is it doomed to end up back in the graveyard of failed websites in which it was first buried seven years ago?"

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Re:Accurate?

[Galvatron]

That still doesn't make it a "victim of the dot com bust." A victim would be a company with an otherwise viable business model that got nailed by, for example, the sudden collapse of online ad rates, or the unwillingness of investors to fund any online enterprise. It was merely a victim of it's own stupidity.