Month: June 2002

The following has been posted to the RealNames Web Site. RealNames Asset Sales RealNames Corp. has created several Executive Summaries that describe the services, including intellectual property, software and hardware, that will be sold as part of the liquidation of the corporationês assets.  These summaries describe RealNamesê: Alliance Keyword Program Contact Card Enterprise Keyword System…

From www.circleid.com RealNames’ Termination: More Catastrophic than Anticipated!   by Keith Teare | Email | Bio   “I wrote this opinion piece for CNet’s news.com. I had been asked to provide it. On May 27 I had been told by the editor that ‘it will run on 4am on Thursday’…and I still await an explanation of…

From Steve Ballmer’s memo to Microsoft employees today: “But our mission is not just about building great technology. It’s also about who we are as a company and as individuals, how we manage our business internally, and how we think about and work with partners and customers,” Ballmer wrote. It would seem that the decision…

I wrote this opinion piece for CNet’s news.com. I had been asked to provide it. On 27 May I had been told by the editor that “it will run a 4am on Thursday”. Later that week – Thursday the 30th, when the article did not run, I was told the following:

Mozilla 1.0 has been released. It can be modified to use RealNames. The URL’s below [in blue] need to replace the standard URL’s for the network.search.url and the keyword.URL properties, and false needs to be changed to true in the keyword.enabled property in the file named all.js which is in the prefs directory under the Mozilla application. You can edit…

A number of people have emailed me asking for some background on the negotiations with Microsoft. Here is a PowerPoint file from a meeting held in January 2002. It outlines the success RealNames was having. It includes 2002 forecasts. It also looks at the consequences to various stakeholders should Microsoft choose not to renew the…

Danny makes a number of points in the article below. I’ll deal with them one by one.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> So where does the smoking gun belong? I put it in the hands of RealNames itself. The company has made so many shifts in direction since it launched that it’s been…

Danny Sullivan is one of the best journalists in the Internet Search space. His article – published 6/2/2002 is below. I disagree with Danny’s conclusions but his piece is a considered and well thought out view. I’ll post my disagreements seperately, because I think it will be a good way to get to the real…

This Week’s Stats General Statistics Successful Hits For Entire Site 601,018 Average Hits Per Day 25,042 Home Page Hits N/A Pages Page Views (Impressions) 87,988 Average Per Day 3,666 Dynamic Pages and Forms Views 516 Document Views 87,472 Visits Visits 66,757 Average Per Day 2,781 Average Visit Length 00:10:24 International Visits 39.76% Visits of Unknown…

This email from Nikolaj Nyholm from Ascio in Denmark reflects a few I have had. The idea that even trying to compete with Microsoft is unachievable if you say in advance that is your goal.   Netscape is a common example.   I always believe that Netscape failed not because it was too audacious but because…