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Flashing Back to the Dotcom Era: 24 Hour Dotcom
comforteagle writes "I was taken back six years in one swoop by the 24 Hour dotcom project this morning. A group of german folks at the Wizards of OS conference have launched 24 hour sit-in 'to create a dotcom business from scratch in 24 hours.' As of writing there's only three hours left until the IPO on eBay. Half serious, half art project, it looks like great fun."
Isn't that in the same league as "placebo chemist" or "linux licence"?
;-)
Really, I'd only be impressed if they subsequently managed to burn through a few million dollars and go out of business within 24 hours - like most other dotcoms in the '90s
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
and 6 hours left until they have to fire every employee... or outsource them to india.
Half serious, half art project
Half-stupid. The sad part is, someone is going to buy into this heap.
Impulse is a scary force in human nature.
From the article:
* 19:00 Building the Office* 19:30 Kick-off party
* 19:45 International expansion
* 22:00 Concepts and planning
* 02:00 Nightly coding
* 14:00 Milestone 1
* 15:00 Milestone 2
* 16:00 Milestone 3
* 16:50 Milestone 4
* 17:00 Press conference
* 18:00 Final candidate 1
* 18:30 Release Party
* 19:00 Final release
* 18:59 Launch, IPO on eBay
They sure do have their priorities right! All the essential ingredients of a dotcom...
An IPO on eBay? It sounds creepy and foreshadowing of things to come. As if eBay isn't central to our economy enough.
Any /.er's planning to bid?
I'm sure they are really appreciating the slashdotting given that they only have a few hours left to construct and sell their web-based application.
One of the harder things to do within 24 hours seems to actually get a dot com address.
"Sorry honey, I can't go visit your parents with you, I'm starting a business today. But I'll be finished with it by Tuesday..."
Another implication...as much as our friends in Redmond slap us in the face with the fact that businesses are all about making money and not about providing goods or services, I wonder how people would trust a business that literally sprang up overnight to be in our best interest?
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[ducks]
Sigs are bad for your health.
Or:
<style>
body{
background-color: white;
}
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People never used to forget this, but now I see it all the time... People just assume that the background color on a web page will be white, and design with that in mind.
Well, I've got my browsers set to show gray backgrounds by default, JUST THE WAY GOD INTENDED! None of this white background heresy! Btw, slashdot apperantly dosn't allow >body bgcolor="white"> as a subject, even thought they convert "<>" to "<>" automaticaly. Lame.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Yeah 24 hours is about right. They should phone Trump and do each hour in realtime for reality TV. That'd be something I'd watch.
"We have no content, no products or services."
"Don't be so negative, we have kittens!"
"Right, kittens!"
"They can play with the kittens if they register on the site..."
"And registration should be 5 tier'd so we can upscale our sales model."
"Why only 5? Let's go with 10 tiers, so everything from Zinc members right up to Platinum VIP Studs."
"Ok, we're done."
"How long was that?"
"We have about 23.56 hours left."
"Let's get some beer!"
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
I am a Slashdot sucker. I just paid $11 for 1% of a 24-hour fly-by night company that showed up on Slashdot.
Considering I never lost any money on dot-coms though, it seems like a good investment. Yes? Or no?
I mean, their marketing guy got a story on Slashdot which is more than I can say I've ever accomplished!
Here's the original.
I also reply below your current threshold.
Is that this is probably more planning than went into 99% of the dot.coms.
You can find their dotcom site at
http://dozomo.24hdc.com/
Taken from their site:
What is dozomo?
Dozomo is a quick way to reach every search engine in the world! Just type the name of a search engine followed by a search term, and dozomo will take you there immediately. If you want to search google for "Miles Davis", for example, type "google Miles Davis". To search allmusic for "Miles Davis", just type "allmusic Miles Davis".
Soon they will be millionaires with this !
The Dozomo team has manipulated the Webproxy at the WOS3-Conference so that when you query Google, you are redirected to Dozomo. The problem is that your search parameters are not passed on. So users are forced to enter their search query a second time and post the dozomo-form. Then they get to google (or whatever search engine they specified).
Bad enough, but it gets worse: When you now modify your search query on google, you are redirected back again - and again, your search query is not passed on!
Querying the web from the conference is a pain at the moment. If I had shares, I would sell them.
If only I had mod points. This is so funny.
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Whatever happened to ESR saying he wasn't going to let his new found wealth go to his head. What a pompous ass. Reminds me of a fortune I got the other day (maybe even at the bottom of a
"Don't be humble... you're not that great."
I have this vivid recollection of going to visit a Silicon Valley dot-com in 2000. They were bidding to provide the backend for an ecommerce project I was working on for another dot-com (see how incestuous the whole thing was?).
We talked for a while about their underlying technology. I noticed a couple of dozen people scurrying around in the open bay of the converted light industrial warehouse, so I asked the CTO what all of those people were doing. "They're in marketing and sales," he replied confidently.
"So who are your current customers?" I couldn't help but ask.
"Well, our infrastructure is still being rolled out," he answered.
"Umm.. you mean, your datacenter is still in the works?"
"Well, yes, but the application itself is still evolving."
I could tell where this was headed. "What percentage of this functionality we've been talking about is actually available right now, today?"
He at least had enough shame to avert his gaze as he admitted, "Well, we're almost there. I'd say 75% of the functionality is there right now, but by the time we finish you're project, we'll have all of the desired functionality for our product."
These guys had over $10M in funding, and had been in business for four months before we spoke with them. Their revolutionary new technology was essentially an Object Perl framework for building websites. They had no customers. They had no product. They had lots of money. All of their managers were under 30 years old.
THAT was a dot-com.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
From the article:
* 19:00 Building the Office
* 19:30 Kick-off party
* 19:45 International expansion
* 22:00 Concepts and planning
* 02:00 Nightly coding
* 14:00 Milestone 1
* 15:00 Milestone 2
* 16:00 Milestone 3
* 16:50 Milestone 4
* 17:00 Press conference
* 18:00 Final candidate 1
* 18:30 Release Party
* 19:00 Final release
* 18:59 Launch, IPO on eBay
They forgot to apply for a patent!
Somebody please overbid me!
0x or or snor perron?!