espite being coastally challenged (currently living in Philadelphia), Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
"le" magic...(or, Bubble ends in "le")
1995-2000 was the era of the "SCAPES" (Netscape, Medscape, Wellscape, etc.).
2000-2004 brought the era of the "STER"
(Napster, Feedster*, Friendster, Dogster, Eurekster, etc.).
And now, I believe, we have now entered into the era of
“LE”. While
some might argue that
flickr's success has made "kr" is the Official Suffix of Web 2.0, I
disagree. After Google’s phenomenal
success, there’s been
an influx of companies wanting some "le"
magic. Google itself launched
Froogle. Now we have Kaboodle, Kanoodle,
Azoogle, Oodle, Ookle(s), Rabble, Dabble, Zazzle, Taggle, Quimble, and Krugle*.
So, here’s my thought – some web hacker should build an "le" crawler to search the whois database for all available "le" domain names. This way we can determine when all of the “le” domain names are taken – giving us Web 2.0 investors some advance knowledge of when the music will stop… For now, I think we’re safe – kafroogle.com, kabloodle.com, and shlurfoodle.com are still available.
I can’t wait to see their business plans.
*Note - I am a happy investor in Feedster and Krugle...
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