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To: Jay Lowe who wrote (4416)	1/18/1999 11:34:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (3) of 29970

In a year XCIT would cost less because it would be worth less. Portals are about users, right now XCIT is the #2 portal behind Yahoo. Without the extra input from @home and AT&T XCIT will fade into oblivion. Dont you see that ATHM wants to be the very best? The more I think about this the more cool I can see this being. ATHM's #1 priority needs to be to grow the landscape of the internet so that broadband is a vital part of everyday use. People need to see that dial up is a 10" Black & White TV in a 36" Color world. Too many people see the internet as text based chat & e-mail and don't even have the slightest clue why they would need more than that. Imagine the #2 portal coming out with a whole slew of broadband features that dial-up users can smell but not taste! One simple idea would be to be able to open a private video channel to anyone in a chat room. What better advertisement for ATHM could there be than that? The real war is not DSL vs cable, its antique 56k vs modern broadband. The more broadband applications on the web the more ATHM wins. ATHM has been growing users by word of mouth for people who use the net enough that they cant stand the stupid waiting for a text page to load. To reach 15 million users and eventually 150 million users they need a world wide web that has features specifically tuned to broadband. What use is a color TV if everyone still broadcasts in black & white? This is huge. I wonder if the market can see it. Eric

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