SILICON ALLEY COMPANIES -- BANKRUPT OR DISAPPEARED
xceed.com (x-ceed.com)
siliconalleyreporter.com
stockobjects.com
mtvi.com
www.feed.com
www.razorfish.com/
pseudo.com
***** See details below.
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Xceed (X-ceed)
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http://www.xceed.com
http://www.x-ceed.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/xceed.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/x-ceed.com
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/756031
Web Shop Xceed Files Ch. 11 Bankruptcy
May 1, 2001
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/11241
X-ceed Acquires Zabit & Associates for $29.5 Million
September 18, 1998
http://www.fool.com/ddouble/1998/ddouble980917.htm
HOW DID IT DOUBLE?
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Silicon Alley Reporter
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http://www.siliconalleyreporter.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/*/siliconalleyreporter.com
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/899091
Silicon Alley Reporter Goes Under
The Silicon Alley Reporter, a glossy magazine which symbolized the
birth and giddy growth of the New York new media industry, is folding,
publisher and owner Jason McCabe Calacanis confirmed Monday.
http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000450022471/
Silicon Alley Reporter? is back!
Posted Dec 3, 2004, 1:17 AM ET by Jason Calacanis
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StockObjects
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http://www.stockobjects.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/stockobjects.com
http://atnewyork.com/news/article.php/248771
April 3, 1998 -- STOCK OBJECTS SPINS OFF
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0301/msg00106.html
Mark Tribe on Thu, 23 Jan 2003
... stockobjects folded in 2000.
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MTVi
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http://www.mtvi.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/mtvi.com
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mtvi.com
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jhtml;jsessionid=YPKV0B2PIRH0ICWKEAQSFEQ?whoistoken=0&imageKeyPage=/whois/entry.jhtml&_requestid=574904
http://www.mtv.com/
http://www.mtv.com/asm/adspecs/mtvn/adinfo.jhtml
The MTVi Group is the world's leading online music entertainment
company featuring a comprehensive collection of music destinations on
the Internet. The MTVi Group's 22 worldwide destinations include
MTV.com, VH1.com, and sonicnet.com. The MTVi Group is a unit of MTV
Networks, which is owned by Viacom Inc. Headquartered in downtown New
York, The MTVi Group has satellite offices in San Francisco, CA.
Liberty Digital (NYSE: LMG.A and LMG.B) holds a minority stake in The
MTVi Group. For more information please visit The MTVi Group corporate
Web site (www.mtvigroup.com).
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Feed
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http://www.feed.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/feed.com
http://feed.com/
Feed.com powered by WorldNews.com
http://www.worldnews.com/
http://cgi.worldnews.com/?t=aboutus/index.txt
THE LATEST NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
WN Network ranks as one of the top sites for World News on the
Internet, reaching around 12 million unique web users in the average
month.
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=feed.com
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=%22feed.com%22
http://jd.manilasites.com/2001/06/08
Feed, Suck in danger of folding?
Posted by JD Lasica, 6/8/01 at 3:30:24 PM.
Automatic Media folds -- will Feed and Suck follow?
This afternoon's Silicon Alley Daily reports that Automatic Media --
corporate parent of Feed, Suck, Plastic.com -- is folding its tent.
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/mef/automaticmedia.shtml
DISOBEY.COM > Ghost Sites >Screen Shot Collection > /automatic-media.jpg
http://www.1134.org/stan/dot-com/gallery06/tn/automatic-media.com.jpg.html
Automatic-Media.com was the corporate shell for a small but once
thriving network of affiliated content sites, namely Feed.com,
Suck.com, Alt.Culture, and Plastic.com. The first three had been early
Web pioneers; the latter was an experiment in cheap content creation
that was a kind of super "pre-Blog" which ran the same CMS (content
management system) that powered Slashdot.org.
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Razorfish
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http://www.razorfish.com/
http://www.avenuea-razorfish.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/*/razorfish.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_A/Razorfish
Avenue A - Razorfish
Avenue A | Razorfish Inc. (formerly NASDAQ:RAZF) is an agency and
consultancy that is an operating unit of aQuantive, Inc. (NASDAQ:
AQNT). One of it's former names was Razorfish, Inc., who was acquired
by SBI and Company in January 2003. SBI purchased what was left of
many of the .com consultancies including Scient, Lante, MarchFirst,
Emerald, and eXcellerate. In October 2003 SBI and Company was renamed
SBI Group and Razorfish became part of SBI.Razorfish beside
SBI.Enteris. The company was renamed Avenue A | Razorfish as it was
acquired by aQuantive, Inc in 2004.
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=razorfish.com
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=%22razorfish.com%22
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Pseudo
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http://www.pseudo.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/pseudo.com
http://pseudo.com/
pseudo.com -- Corporate
Pseudo is a Net-Television network creating original, interactive
entertainment for young, discriminating, style-setting consumers who
have stopped looking to mainstream media for inspiration.
Pseudo was established in 1994 by Josh Harris, founder of Jupiter
Communications. With the birth of Silicon Alley, Pseudo emerged as an
interactive online content developer for Prodigy becoming the most
trafficked area on the Prodigy network, launching Pseudo online radio,
and growing their content offerings to full video Net-Television
within the span of four years with over 1.5 million unique visitors
per month.
Pseudo has been redeveloped as a state-of-the-art platform to create,
manage, and transmit digital content for television, web, or film.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/pseudo_9-19.html
PSEUDO.COM SHUTS DOWN
September 19, 2000
After building an impressive Web presence at this year's political
conventions, netcaster Pseudo.com officially shut down operations
yesterday afternoon.
Problems at the six-year-old site led to a dwindling cash reserve,
despite weeks of searching for outside funding.
"We ran out of money, it was that simple," Pseudo's Senior Vice
President Jeanne Meyer told Reuters.
Monday afternoon, CEO David Bohrman told Pseudo's 175 employees the
company was folding its tent.
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/476871
October 4, 2000
Pseudo Files For Chapter 11 Protection
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,33015,00.html
Is Pseudo.com the Real Thing? -- Dec. 10, 1999
http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_000919_briefs.html
Another Dotcom Death as Pseudo.com Closes
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RESOURCES TO FIND FAILED COMPANIES
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http://www.archive.org/
Internet Archive ? Wayback Machine
***** Use this tool to locate archived pages from defunct websites and companies.
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http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.shtml
zine: ghost sites
A feature devoted to the antithesis of everything New, Hot, or Cool on
the Net. Ghost Sites' mission is simple: to bring you up-to-date on
everything not up-to-date in the never-changing world of bit rot.
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http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/mef.shtml
1998-2005 Screenshots
WHAT IS THE MUSEUM OF E-FAILURE?
The Museum of E-Failure was launched in early 2000; it is an image
gallery of some 1,250 screens captured from some 900 Web projects that
for various reasons "went dark" during the years 1998 to 2004. Some
had a chance to post a self-penned epitaph in the form of a "farewell
screen"; others simply expired and drifted lifelessly, with no visible
indications for their demise - often for many months. This collection
provides a partial, but revealing look at the latter half of the Web's
10 years of existence. Annotations (Web Elegies) are included where
possible in order to place each site in its historical context.
***** Although it?s impossible to tell which sites come from Silicon
Alley, you may find it useful to browse this list.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415935717/103-8638610-0579809?v=glance
Silicon Alley: The Rise and Fall of a New Media District
***** Use the Search Inside feature to evaluate whether this book will
be of interest. The Index is useful for identifying possible failed
companies to investigate.
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NEWS, ARTICLES, POSTINGS ABOUT FAILED COMPANIES
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http://www.stern.nyu.edu/Sternbusiness/fall_winter_2000/silicon.html
The Rise of Silicon Alley
Another group in the emerging community has been called the ?Early
True Believers.? They are, in New York magazine?s words, ?the closest
thing Silicon Alley has to an indigenous population?they?re brainy
math-and-music types with impressive liberal-arts educations, mostly
upper-crust backgrounds, and birthdays in or around 1966.? Throughout
the early and mid-1990s, this informal group held social networking
events called ?CyberSlacker parties.? Many of the friends and
attendees went on to found Silicon Alley stalwarts such as MTVi, Feed,
Razorfish, Pseudo.com, StockObjects, Nerve, and the Silicon Alley
Reporter.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/27/technology/27SILI.html?ex=1129176000&en=6d38fef5cd16afda&ei=5070
October 27, 2000
Silicon Alley's Dimming Lights
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http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:K27hi2g4s6sJ:www.thecrimson.com/fmarchives/fm_02_15_2001/article2P.html+bankrupt+silicon+alley+companies&hl=en
2/15/01 -- Down and Out in Silicon Alley
What do you do when you lose 8 billion dollars? You ask for more
money. At least, that would be your answer in Silicon Alley, the
constellation of individual Internet companies that have their
headquarters in New York.
Companies mentioned: ytrybe.com, siliconalleydaily.com, iTurf.com,
yazam.com, Psuedo.com, SparkNotes.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/ytrybe.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/siliconalleydaily.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/iTurf.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/yazam.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/Psuedo.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/SparkNotes.com
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http://siliconalley.internet.com/news/article.php/248591
November 14, 1997
Barbarians in the Alley: Pumping Cash into New Media
Companies mentioned: starmedia.com, chatplanet.com, nyo.com,
kidtools.com, cyberdialogue.com, razorfish.com, lbtn.com
(letstalkbusiness.com), oursquare.com (TheSquare.com), gist.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/starmedia.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/chatplanet.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/nyo.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/kidtools.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/cyberdialogue.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/razorfish.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/lbtn.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/letstalkbusiness.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/oursquare.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/gist.com
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http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/248401
June 6, 1997
CITY SETS ASIDE $30 MILLION FOR SILICON ALLEY
Companies mentioned: iVillage.com, onlinemagic.com, mamamedia.com,
date.com, sonicnet.com,
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http://www.inc.com/magazine/20010301/22054.html
Upstarts: Internet Salvage
Online companies are falling left and right. But for some start-ups,
that spells opportunity.
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http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id2569/pg3/
dotcom deathwatch
by Alex Burns (alex@disinfo.com) - September 07, 2002
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1253865,00.asp
Silicon Alley's Vanishing Act -- February 5, 2001
The Collapse
It's a laundry list of misery: Entertainment network Pseudo.com filed
for Chapter 11 protection; its assets recently were acquired for $2
million by INTV, another New York Internet company. Lou Dobbs'
Space.com started 2001 by firing 22 people. 24/7 Media's chief
financial officer quit and the company laid off 100. Streaming player
On2.com fired half of its staff. Career site Vault.com, whose
investors include Esther Dyson and Rockefeller & Co., canned one-third
of its staff. The New York Times Co. laid off 17 percent of its online
staff. Even the Alley's de facto conference room, coffee shop Eureka
Joe, closed.
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http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news007_20011203.html
New York's Silicon Alley struggles to find its feet
The once bustling dotcom industry there is now on its knees, but there
are notable survivors, such as DoubleClick
New York , Business Times -- 3 Dec 2001
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