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staleness alert: last updated 9/97

NEDSCAPE'S VISION : PUSH, PUSH, PUSH !

Oh, like you're surprised.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the past couple of months, you've probably read about this dramatic new paradigm that's going to make the stinky old Web more like engaging, fun TV.

Of course, we're trying to figure it out too, just like the big boys. And as we all grow old waiting for Windows 98 (the artist formerly known as IE 4.0), let's engage in a little visioning, shall we?

Let me paint an exciting picture of the future for you:

Soon, very soon, I will be able to "push" beautifully formatted Web pages like this one straight into your Inbox. Or maybe straight into your Desktop! Or your TV! Or your microwave!

Let's say I've assembled a profile of you that suggests you're a likely consumer of canned processed meat...

... all right! You'll get daily updates on my product, with full-color images, Real Live Audio, and sooner than you might think -- Java Scratch -N- Sniff! ^TM

"Java Scratch -N- Sniff" is a registered trademark of Nedscape Communications.

So why "Communicator," you ask? Well, good question.

You might think it has something to do with some new features that took a year or so to integrate from acquiring a groupware company.

Or maybe they just saw the name somewhere else, and thought it was catchy.

Our suspicion: A Captain Kirk wanna-be in the product naming department.

Hi, I'm Ned Lilly: child of the 1970s, and admitted partisan in the browser wars. Welcome to my humble home page.

I run a new online vacation reservations system, and do business development stuff for the corporate parent, a mid-sized media company.

While I believe I'm the First Ned on the Web to attempt such a towering act of self-worship as these silly pages, see for yourself.

If you're not an attorney -- or other officer of the court -- I can be reached at ned@nedscape.com.

BEST VIEWED WITH ...

These pages will of course look their shiny best in Netscape Communicator 4.0 - tune up, baby! . . .

. . . or, you can join the chorus of industry-watchers remarking at What An Impressive Turnaround the other guys made this year. Yeah, so a $2 billion research budget buys you parity. Pinch me.

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AWARDS 'N' HONORS!

September 8, 1997: CNET industry rumor-mongerer Skinny DuBaud calls us "one of the best" parody sites, and offers some alarming advice on a Nedscape IPO strategy. Owing to the SEC quiet period, of course, we can't discuss the particulars of Skinny's plan, but we can say that Charlotte was hurt to hear his suggestion that "the Nedster will have to come up with something better than pictures of himself." This from a guy in a trenchcoat and a hat...

Attorney to the geek set and Internet savant Erik J. Heels put us in the Top 10 Parody and Commentary Web Sites on April Fools Day 1997, calling us "everything that a parody site should be." To show our gratitude for Erik's kind words, we'll forego any obvious jokes about lawyers and Erik's last name.

SMH columnist Jon Casimir gave us nice marks in an April 8 roundup of parody sites, calling us "intensely personal" (yikes!), but also, ahem, "fantastic" and "brilliant." Thanks, Jon!

Fred Langa, the Vice President and Editorial Director of CMP's Personal Computing Group, runs a daily "Hotspots" page at Windows Magazine, and Nedscape was sufficiently hot to be the standard-bearer on January 7, 1997.

YPN, from the folks who bring you the NetBooks, did a nice review of goof sites in October 1996, and yours truly was featured prominently.

Our first recognition outside the U.S. came from Teletext, a leading information service in the U.K. In - suprise! - another review of goof sites, we got good marks from their "Bunder's Breakdown" weekly feature.

The boston.comment discussion section of the Globe's online service was less kind; we were only mentioned in a list in August 1996, along with such clever subtleties as "Microsnot." (Sorry, no link - just goes to show you, some folks can hold on to a URL, some can't.)

We're also delighted to have been chosen as the Daily Double site of the day, August 20, 1996. (Now, ahem, defunct, the site used to choose one good site, and one bad site each day. We were the good one.)

We like getting awards, and are easily flattered. More, please! Send your nominations, solicitations to ned@nedscape.com

As we hope is painfully clear, Nedscape Communications has no relationship in fact or fiction to You Know Who.