Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RTev who wrote (8695)	6/28/1999 2:42:00 AM
From: RTev	Respond to of 28311

ZDNet has a package of features on broadband that deal with many of the issues occasionally addressed here (that is, when the vital business of that list wasn't taking up the message-space): The whole package is here: zdnet.com Here's a selection from the article Who will rule the Broadband Era? zdnet.com Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Communications and Charter Communications are the biggest up and coming players. The smallest of these, Charter, the seventh largest cable provider held by software billionaire Paul Allen, may also be the most influential. "Paul Allen has been in this position of trying to drive this business digital, and the others are listening," said John Ryan, chief analyst with RHK Inc., an industry research firm in South San Francisco, California. ... RHK analyst Ryan thinks broadband will require multimedia content tailored to niche audiences. "Everyone is divided up into a huge number of communities depending on nationality, race, gender, interests and location. We feel there will be a huge proliferation, an explosion of content, for those groups."