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 : America On-Line (AOL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pruguy who wrote (29432)	8/14/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 41369

All this talk about free service is based on this being a new market and appealing to the fear side of investors. >>> Pruguy, well said...

To: Pruguy who wrote (29432)	8/14/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 41369

There will always be some free and discount services from ISP's. These will appeal to the lower fringe of the market and not the bulge of the curve or those that want the best services. >>>>>>>>>>>>>. Free will appeal to those who want things free. And someone wants to build a business based on revenues from these peoples SPENDING???? I can hear the pitch now to the advertizers,"Well, you see, we have 500,000 people who use our site, who have duct tape over the ad screens(Rocketman,Vendit) and we will charge you for the privelige of placing your ad UNDER THE DUCT TAPE!! Hey, I got it!!!!! UNDERTHEDUCTTAPE.COM a sinkhole in which advertizers may throw their dollars. Where the mooch is king!! This is gonna be BIG!

To: Pruguy who wrote (29432)	8/15/1999 1:33:00 AM
From: C Nelson Reilly	Respond to of 41369

Pruguy and thread, Suppose that it came down to Saturn giving you a free car if you signed a revolving flat rate mileage two year gasoline contract with a pre approved MEGA OIL COMPANY credit card program with bonus miles and all the festive trimmings of extra value added services and money back guarantees (with towing services thrown in for taking the time to cut the coupons out of the phone book). What would you do? You could opt for the free gasoline double e-stamp savings road side assurance promotion from the joint venture between General Motors (GM) and DrKoop.com (RUTH), baby! Yugo owners call for all the sassy details! You may be eligible for being paid for driving the car in your driveway with other digital customers in a studio enhanced video environment! Or not. If a butterfly flaps dem hot wings in syndication does Venus Williams really have a say in which if any way the wind blows? Does the dust blow forward and the dust blow black? YOU BE THE JUDGE, IF YOU WANT TO!! If there is one rule to remember it is this: Buy hard. Sell soft. Who is hardware? Who is software? How many are so far in between they wouldn't know the difference one way or another? I thought the whole point of the internet was to eliminate the middleman. Hardware Rules, Software Sells, C Nelson Reilly

To: Pruguy who wrote (29432)	8/15/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: Simon Econovich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

The real threat is cable modems and xdsl. aol's proprietary tunneling protocol and big brother server farm have very little place in the net of the future. People don't want to pay for big brother, they want fast access at the lowest price possible. In my area most have mediaone at 1 meg/sec ($50 a month includes cable TV). aol is pretty much toast here, since all they can offer is crappy modem service. aol has squandered investor capital on the wrong (losing) technology and is now desperately whining to the feds to bail it out (force its crap onto the fast wire it doesn't have via FCC "rullings"). They are up sh*ts creek with a lead paddle while the competition is leapfrogging. Having said that, 100 on the stock price seems likely ... I would not short this thing until 80 approaches, since the specialist can take the stock anywhere to squeeeeze the shorts. In fact, a case can be made that a near term double bottom is in. Never underestimate the power of the MM's, especially in the face of obviously bad funnymentals. Look out above.