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To: Spirochete who wrote (45)	1/17/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Larry Abrams	Respond to of 954

About rowe.com and WCAP Check out website: rowe.com rowe.com is to magazines, newspapers, periodicals (hopefully?) what amazon.com has been to books

To: Spirochete who wrote (45)	1/17/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: Larry Abrams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 954

KLOC before BNYN It is my speculation that KLOC will announce a spin-off of 1-800-US-Search.com before BNYN announces a spin-off of switchboard.com for the following reason: While SB has far more "hits" that 1-800, the latter is much further along in developing a "business model" based selling information directly rather than giving it away free and rely on advertising. SB is not content to be a me-too infospace.com, although right now it equal to it. I think that the recent Microsoft infusion has given BNYN time to think longer term about what SB should be and so is not pressured to spin-off quickly The targets (and envy) of both are Dun & Bradstreet and Thomas's Register, both of which sell information but who are woefully lacking in internet commerce. Right now SB is a white and yellow page free service. But, you can see it's intended direction in a news release in NOV 1998, of a strategic alliance with IUSAA, a informational database company with credit ratings on businesses. It hopes to follow 1-800 and offer more detailed information about businesses than name and address IE -- CREDIT INFORMATION-- which has tangible value and people with pay for. P.S. I have stock in both KLOC and BNYN.

To: Spirochete who wrote (45)	1/17/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: dennyv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 954

Vivid Technologies It is public VVID on NASDAQ. Don't know too much about except they make scanning devices that allow airline baggage to be screened for potential bombs and the like. I've never owned it but a friend did and was sure it was going to rocket. When I checked a little it looked like their technology might have been considered somewhat inferior to their competition who's name escapes me now. I do remember however that their devices wer'e cheaper and some thought that their devices might develop into a sort of pre-scan unit to take the pressure off of the much more expensive units their competitor's made.