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Pastimes : Discuss Go2Net's acquisition of our beloved SI -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SI Brad who wrote (100)	4/24/1998 6:09:00 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Respond to of 446

I feel you should keep the sites fairly separate at first. I think providing links to pertinent stocksite pages just above the quotes at the bottom of a stock board or just before the first message is the way to go initially. If you can track how and which links are used it will give you a good idea how members would like integration to proceed. You can get started on this immediately even before the legal stuff is worked out. In a few months you'll have lots of clues as to whether and how to proceed with further integration. I've also thought about a fairly humorous earlier post suggesting 100 shares per lifetime member. I really didn't see any merit in at at first. However, while the number is ridiculous, I do feel that perhaps a token 1 share per member would be an excellent way to build loyalty and keep long term members from straying too often (Yahoo, fool...). You could even print up paper shares with a picture of the three of you and maybe our signup date... Obviously it would be a paperwork nightmare but I feel there would be real long term benefits to the company. Hundreds of basic consumer products companies have DRIP plans to engender brand loyalty and this would be a great way to initiate a sort of online equivalent (don't publicize it too widely - try to prevent the copy cats for as long as possible). Anyway, I'm proud to be an early member of SI and I wish us all well!

To: SI Brad who wrote (100)	4/25/1998 2:25:00 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 446

A History of Power : SI 1998 - 2035 The Dryer Years A novella Graystone The tremendous economic clout of the focused world economy and collective wealth had made major changes and upheavals in the power structure, routine, in the late 2010's. The true benefits had gone to a new group of companies that had realized the power of the early data nets hastily thrown together in the dying years of the last century. When those first crude "computer nets" appeared, followed by an international internet, few had realized where it was going to lead, the few who did became pioneers in a new transformation of the power base. It became evident as time passed, that this "internet" was the the new forum of public opinion. As companies flocked to this new medium, it was obvious that only a few hot spots were actually instrumental in "creating" the opinions, while those opinions then permeated every corner of the globe. The situation envisioned by Confucious 2000 years earlier became an actuality, "The wise man sits outside his house, the world comes to his door." What else was soon seen, was that owning one of these hot spots is more than luck, it took great dedication, intelligence and understanding of the new reality. As a side benefit it also creates great prestige, and wealth. It is still tremendously easy to lose "it" in the new age, changing something that works is always fraught with peril. No organization has exemplified this truth better than a subsidiary of Go2 which still operates independently today, 35 years after it's takeover, SI. <<Note : Silicon Investor officially became SI on October 25, 2004 after a protracted legal battle to secure international rights to this name.>> ....cont'd....