Berlin, Deutschland
March 15, 2001
Ollie,
I am writing now from the bus depot in Berlin. Waiting for the bus to Copenhagen and an uncertain fate.
My only and last hope is that I will somehow find my way north to Scandinavia.
This is the only hope I have to ever find a platform for new business…as the New Economy has completely collapsed.
It is an irony that I should end up in Scandinavia ! Sad that I had to leave the kid behind in BENELUX; but one day I hope to have him come up for an extended visit...wait 'till his a bit older. He is barely one month old ! I never thought Queer Me would end up fathering a child, its crazy !
Last I heard; Go.com, Driveway.com & Mamma.com joined Pet.com in the ITPO graveyard. With Driveway went the famous iSeBi Marketing “web-cloud database” prototype. All that remains of it is the seminal check list on the CCNET server and a few files I managed to rescue into MSN and Freedrive.
Everyone hates the internet now! Every Joe, Dick and Harry that had a score to settle with the IT department is having his or her day. Technology is hated. Neanderthal Joe seems to be triumphant.
The mindless brute has won the day…it is a sad day for Technological progress.
The e-commerce adventure that begun on July 17, 1999 is over and done with: the seed money is gone.
My career as an e-Business marketing professional is for all intents and purposed over with.
The last act of e-John Enterprise Architect was completed last night...
The Yahoo! web ring is operational and online !
The various experimental websites that where created last year have been indexed.
As tools I was able to utilize a variety of neat Linux and MaOS applications (hosted & accessible only on the virtual clouds). I was able to create shortcuts and links combining various ASP servers. Everything was done on-line/on-cloud; from a laptop PC wireless...slower but effective.
I demonstrated empirically the validity of my theoretical premises; the problem is that as the dot.com market has imploded there are no buyers… BUT MY MODEL WORKS !
The technical plan that I devised in theory over the past two months worked exactly as I predicted.
The project has no potential commercial value anymore - it is only valuable form the standpoint of research.
But it was a success! Too late though, the bubble burst ! Had I made it into an IPO two years earlier I could have cashed out and retired a zillionare in New Zealand...
With this letter I am formally ending my dot.com incubator knowledge worker career...
Our iSeBi Online Marketing & eCommerce project is now defunct.
Success!
your e-John.
(Former) Enterprise Architect
iSeBi Online Marketing & eCommerce
