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To: Jeff Mills who wrote (12665)	7/11/1998 11:04:00 PM
From: Elllk	Respond to of 27307

Jeff: The thread Presstek--Stock of the Decade?? still exists and you can read all about it, especially four very interesting months from April-July, 1996. The first fellow here, "Presstek is not Netscape" would probably have agreed with you that Presstek shouldn't be compared to Yahoo, either. Any of the content of some of the other posts ("Presstek, the new Xerox") sound familiar? Message 49845 Subject 2838 Message 90285 Message 78299 Message 65404 Message 60784

To: Jeff Mills who wrote (12665)	7/12/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: hothot	Respond to of 27307

How will Yahoo make money? I believe that the banner advertising will not be the mainstream revenue. The really effective advertising is embedded into the content itself. The web is an service gateway. An good example of this is the www.edmunds.com website. All new/used car sale, spare sale, insurance, ext warrant etc etc are all placed in the content. Just when you think about something, there is this link popped up and you are mostly likely to click and do something. This is something none of the traditional media (newspaper, TV etc) can do. The basic fact is that people are just lazy, if you organizing things nicely and the services are good, people dont want to do the research themselves. In the future, all the portal sites will become the e-supermarket. If you want to sell cars, fine, rent this e-counter/e-space. You can have a single account with the portal and one-click purchases. In another word, the portal will be the middlemen. I believe that middlemen is always needed. Poeple feel comfortable when dealing with a good brandname company. AOL/Compuserv used to sell alot of stuff this way (e.g., shareware). You pay AOL and they pay the authors. This is still a viable model for e-commerce. The race is on for the leader of e-supermarket. Yahoo has a good chance of being there first. NSCP can also put a lot of buttons directly on the broswer (DoJ may object to that in the future:-)