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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RTev who wrote (593)	7/17/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: Jeff Dryer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 2340

>I mentioned last week that Hotmail uses similar colors, but it's a >far different service with not much chance of confusion. The blue >and gray -- although probably necessary by now -- does not do much >to distinguish SI from others. In fact (and this is the reason it's >turned out to be popular, I believe), it will make SI look more like >sites with a similar purpose. Other sites might have a similar purpose but they sure don't produce similar results. I believe SI is popular because SI has the best quality discussion of any site on the Internet. I'm not sure if investors in general appreciate SI for what it is because many investors are caught up in the excitement of hyping their stocks. I think you would agree that Yahoo and Raging Bull are low quality discussion sites compared to SI. I keep tabs on the competition, and sometimes go over and read the last 100 messages posted to the Yahoo YHOO board for instance and am usually amazed at how bad it is. People are posting using multiple aliases, lots of foul language, very little analysis. These other finance message boards are a sickness... they hurt SI and investors don't seem to realize it. Free registration sites allow sick investors to turn investing in to a game and a joke. Not only is Yahoo a free out-of-control registration site, but then Yahoo makes ridiculous claims that they have 80 million unique users and 65 million unique registered users. Yahoo is then rewarded by Wall Street, the Media, and users who all help promote the false misleading information. The numbers Yahoo pumps out are not remotely true, but many people go there because they believe the hype. Internet lies and trash are rewarded.

To: RTev who wrote (593)	7/19/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: BryanB	Respond to of 2340

As CheekyKid pointed out long ago, the SI beta design is closest to something called www.stockhouse.com, but the colors (in all suggested combos) are far different. For the record, I would like to just point out that I never even heard of www.stockhouse.com before someone (Cheeky) mentioned it on this thread. <g> Which is not to say that I'm not in favor of "borrowing" a few good ideas from our competitors, and if we ever find a competitor with a good idea, then we'll do just that! <ggg> Thanks, Bryan