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To: Denise D who wrote (7137)	1/23/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: keith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37507

The European market is somewhere in the neighborhood of being 2-3 years behind in online shopping arena when compared with the U.S. There is a better than 50% chance that the market will skip the PC desktop screen and the masses will move into the push technology programming thats just beginning to come on the scene. Hence the direction that is going to be utilized by Bid.com licencing agreement with AIME. By using set top boxes we the consumer can filter items that we wish to be downloaded into our systems and viewed on our T.V's. The bigger plus to this technology is that we can actually interact at the same time as the piece we are buying/ bidding on is viewed by all participants. In essence this technology provides us the opportunity to check out the merchandise before we decide to buy. A small example (not relating to bii currently) is purchasing a book. We could actually review some of the contents online just like we do when we are at a bookstore. Simple example but the idea is real. There are a few participants in this arena and the likes of Microsoft have already grab their chunk of the pie. Next time your into explorer see if you can locate WAVO. Wavo has many of the bigger companies already partnered for the explosive growth in this dynamic area. Aime is bii's partner for this upcoming technology. Hope they can develop and bring to market the software(which will be free)real soon. The horses are out of the gate and there's still time. Bii's advantage is their European endeavours.

To: Denise D who wrote (7137)	1/23/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: keith	Respond to of 37507

biz.yahoo.com Combine this technology with the new regulatory requirements of converging Digital T.V. by something like 2003(maybe its 2006). If you are in the market for a T.V consider asking if it has digital capabilties. In addition, take a look at PC manufacturers, they are providing TV tuner cards within their systems. If you are considering buying a new PC in the near future you may want to consider asking if the system has capabilities for adding this tuner card. Some companies aren't there just yet. Consider also the companies who will be producing these set top boxes. What an investment opportunity! And to the Forthrights and Mcleods of the world; Intel's following announcement(and link)of embedding numerical numbers into their next Pentium chip, probably due out later this year should strike fear into all the shorters. Although I believe that Forthight and Mcleod are longs who wish to simply rattle a few chains. dailynews.yahoo.com Why, well the initial purpose of this embedded chip will help identify that it is actually you and your system that has purchased an item or completed a banking transaction. This is one more piece of evidence that this online world is for real. Buy them; hold them; Trade them; The next 2-3 years are going to be fun. Lots of volatility and many a milionaires.

To: Denise D who wrote (7137)	1/23/1999 10:40:00 PM
From: Sili Investor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37507

Here's some interesting reading. I couldn't find it at the National Post site so I have summarized here. Don Tapscott, as many of you will know, is a leader in the discussion on the future economy and the impacts of technology on such. He has authored numerous books, probably the most prominent being "The Digital Economy". He writes an article each Saturday in the National Post - Financial Post section. The headline for this week's article "Prudent investors will hold three kinds of Net stocks" Remember, these are excepts" Given the wild ride that Internet stocks took on the markets this week, does this mean the naysayers are right - that Internet stock prices are all based in hysteria and hype? After all, seemingly overnight the market capitalization of on-line auctions, bookstores, brokerage firms, and portals eclipsed the titans of auto, steel, energy, manufacturing and even finance. They achieved unprecedented price earning ratios and stock appreciation. So was it a boom too good to be true, and should we now be bracing for the big Internet bust? Not at all. The rationale underlying the enthusiasm for internet stocks remains solid gold. Yes, there will be considerable volatility - as we've just seen. And there will be big losers, not just winners. But overall and over time, the companies that tie their fortunes to the Internet have but one way to go - up. Their valuations will reflect fundamental underlying changes in the economy and market. Ridiculing the rush to Net-based companies is akin to ridiculing GE, Ford, RCA and Standard Oil a century ago. Just like the electrical power grids and road provided infrastructure for new business models and a new economy, so networks are providing the infrastructure for changes of comparable or even greater scale. The way businesses are functioning and creating wealth is being transformed. One third of the global economy will run on this infrastructure by the year 2010. Some of these unprecedented valuations are wacky, but overall they make sense. For example, information technology and networks are eliminating the inventory cycles and other causes of business cycles and recessions, thereby creating the conditions for sustained economic growth. The resulting greater predictability drives up P/E ratios, especially for the high growth companies embracing network-based business models. So if an old measure like the P/E ratio isn't appropriate, and Internet stocks seem to be a rocky ride, what's a prudent investor to do? First, realize that there are really three types of Internet stocks. Any prudent investor should be holding all three. Call them "new business model" stocks. The high-profilers like Amazon.com, eBay, E*Trade and Yahoo are one type- pure Internet plays. These companies did not exist before the Internet, their whole business model is built on the internet and all their revenues are derived from transactions on the Internet. Although share prices were battered this week, they have all appreciated magnificently from their levels a year ago. And any still have massive growth potential. The second type is the traditional bricks and mortar companies which are successfully changing their business model to seize the opportunities offered by the Net. Examples are FedEX and Schwab. The third type of Internet stock investment is in the companies that make switches, routers, modems, software and other technology critical to the Net's operation. Examples include Cisco Systems and Celestica. By 2003, the total volume of commerce on the Web will top $1 Trillion. It is good sense to invest in the companies that are building the billions of dollars of Internet infrastructure to enable this. Many decades ago the steam engine came along. One group said: "No way, we're sticking with horses. There will always be a need for them." The other group said: "Looks promising. we will invest in railroads. And in the companies that build locomotives. and in the products shipped by rail. And in the new communities that will be build in the new territories opened by the railroad." The risk strategy was to stick with the stables, saddles and blackmiths. The conservative approach was to invest in the emerging economy.