In other words, Disney should consider its options here and ways to increase SEEK shareholder value. Altavista unit which it inherited when Compaq acquired Digital. A yawner so far. Compaq has the chance to turn Altavista into something powerful or it can divest the traffic to another large Web player. The thing about communities that casual observers miss is that its users are much more attached to using them than a directory or Web hub in some ways.
Users have their own personal creations up there for the world to see.
While GeoCities and other ad-based Websteaders may not have found the ultimate business model they have found a better user model in our opinion. We don't think the last iteration on communities' business models has been sounded and expect these sites to evolve rapidly to leverage their user bases and relationships. HotMail now adds something like 1 million users per week. I recall when founder Sabeer Bhatia presented at my investment conference at Spring Internet World in Spring 1997. But HotMail has more than hockey sticked, it's been more moonshot.