Ever wonder why Flickr, Frappr, Soonr, Zooomr and a host of other companies are spelled the way they are? Link to the full interview here..
“After hitting it big during the dot-com boom of the 90’s, the tech world’s best-known letter comes out of seclusion for a rare conversation.
The flurry of activity in “Web 2.0” has unleashed a number of rising stars. Perhaps the best known is photo-sharing site Flickr, but others such as 37Signals and del.icio.us have also ascended to prominence over the past eighteen months. However, the darling of the dot-com bubble — the letter “e” — is conspicuously missing and has decided to take a wait and see attitude this time around.
In an exclusive e-mail exchange with our editors, the reclusive vowel talks about what he’s been doing since the year 2000, his investment strategy, and his thoughts on whether we’ve entered a new technology bubble. He joins us from his yacht just outside of Antibes on the French Riviera (recently purchased from legendary venture capitalist Tom Perkins).”
http://blog.coolz0r.com/2006/06/22/listr-20/ I’m almost at 90 domains 🙂
Speaking of p-mail, my dog *loves* to “send” and “receive” his p-mail whenever we’re out on a walk. Sometimes it’s spelled peemail, but “e” would probably send us *two* cease-and-desist letters for spelling it that way. [BTW, my friend Teresa, a fellow dog lover, gets the credit for this post – I’m just building on her humor.]
Anne
ha! our dogs send/receive p-mail the same way!
Interested to know actually which yacht he was on. I cannot imagine Tom Perkins selling his brand new boat 2 weeks after he takes posession from the shipyard, and 7 years after the initial design was created.
Come on… which yacht was he actually on?
David
Brought to you by the letter “e”
This must read, rare interview with the letter e provides a bit of insight into what the darling letter of the dot-com boom has been up to since his sudden disappearance in 2000. Unfortunately, e remains vague about the possibility
David, the “e” made more in *interest* last year than the GNP of 96% percent of the countries on the planet. He buys what he wants. Everyone, and everything, has a price.