DISQUS

Black Web 2.0: IAC’s Cutting Emerging Businesses is Rushmore Drive at Risk?

  • Fredric Mitchell · 1 year ago
    A list of all of IAC's emerging market websites, fyi.

    Pronto.com
    Gifts.com
    CollegeHumor
    Busted Tees
    Very Short List
    Vimeo
    ConnectedVentures.com (CV)
    23/6
    Primal Ventures
    GarageGames
    FiLife.com
    Life123.com
    Instantaction.com
    RushmoreDrive.com
    TheDailyBeast.com
    ReserveAmerica
    Bagsbuy.com
    Shoebuy.com
    Green.com
  • gem2001 · 1 year ago
    Am I reading that right? They have 4.5 Million dollars and they are getting 152,000 unique visits a month? Mr. Diller, please call me immediately for 1/10000 of the cost I can generate 150,000 unique visits.

    I get that SEARCH is the big dog online. If you can get a corner on SEARCH, then you are doign well, but I actually think that SEARCh is going to become more "intelligent" in the future. There is only so far, even the most powerful of algorythms can go. The best sites are the ones with live human beings who use the search engines to cull through information that is interesting or noteworthy to their audiences.

    If YAHOO can't beat out google, what makes you think RUshmore Drive was going to be able to. I think Twitter, Facebook, Myspace etc indicate that Black web browsers are extrememly comfortable occupying a general "space" and then carving out their communities and networks within.
  • AroundHarlem.com · 1 year ago
    LOL at Gina.

    Mr. Diller can give me a call too.

    I've got a couple of ideas.
  • hudsonliberty · 6 months ago
    It sounds like the problem was that they had a great idea but lacked the internet marketing experience to pull the project off. It is a clear cut example that money alone isn't enough to make it on the internet. There is more to it than that.

    Clarence Coggins
    Crown Prince of Web 2.0
    http://hudsonliberty.com/magic.html