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To: KailuaBoy who wrote (28804)	8/2/2001 8:23:07 PM
From: gpowell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

Actually, they pissed on their shareholders every 90 days. Look at this: boards.fool.com Last week I was fortunate enough to take part in a demo for two technologies (one old, one newer) that are currently in development by Hal Rucker's design team. WebStation - redefines the interactive experience for @Home users. More than just a set of chromes for the User Interface...it's like an all-in-one platform for launching music, pictures, email, whatever...all from one groovy interface which you can customize. Takes advantage of having a Broadband, always-on connection. Mousetrap - A new look and feel which is flash based. This was VERY cool. It made the whole experience feel richer, and more interactive. Describing it is not easy, but let's just say that it is really sexy. Again, takes advantage of always-on Broadband connections. As a side note, both of these were just demo'd to AT&T big whigs and our own crew here at Excite@Home. Apparently, there is a lot of interest. Or at least "feigned" interest. Who can tell with this crew? And then the kicker...Hal Rucker's thoughts on our current Excite.com portal were very interesting. In a nutshell, he said if you can't win the war, start a new one. The idea is to make Excite.com a BROADBAND-only portal. That raised eyebrows. The conventional wisdom being that few portals are really making any money, and those that do are probably in the #1 or #2 spot already. We're not even close. So we serve up Excite.com as the premiere launching pad for all things broadband, and capture a market which is growing by leaps and bounds. Even if AOL and MSN and Yahoo decided to chase these subs, we're hands-down out of the gate first. Now, if the executives can only implement a sound strategy for taking this road less traveled, we may have some life left in Excite.com after all. Well see what happens. Personally, I think we could probably pull it off, but it would mean that Excite.com would continue to bleed while we waited for market penetration and more interesting advertising to show up. But then, what do I know? I'm just an Excrypto PS: TONS of sad faces here today. Large layoffs. Even executives. Hasn't made the official news streams yet.