Deva vu all over again
Posted by Bill Gaffney | October 3rd, 2007 |
Constant Contact, a service provider for creating and managing newsletters, successfully made its Nasdaq debute today. Microsoft is musing a drop of $500 million for Facebook. And the signature publication of the dotCom era, the Industry Standard, is being resuscitated by IDG.
This will be second attempt at life after death for the once definitive voice of the internet economy (having managed a few short breathes back in 2004). According to Brad Stone at Bits, InfoWorld CTO Derek Butcher and strategy consultant Garrick Hileman are leading the effort, so expectations are high.
Eric Savitz at Barron’s found the placeholder by chance. And for a walk down memory lane, the Standard’s article and blog archives are still available.
