6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!

[mandy]

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http://www.boo.com

Part 1 of the story:  the company's May 2000 obituary after having blown through $178 million in funding and closed its doors just 6 months after opening:

The glamour of Boo.com epitomized the excitement of start-ups in Internet retailing. Its collapse illustrates the risks.

This first major dot-com collapse came the day after U.K. electronic auction company QXL and Germany's Ricardo agreed to a merger valued initially at $937 million.

Unfortunately, Boo.com failed in all respects--most noticeably in its almost unusable, avatar-based system that demanded high-speed access. When coupled with poor business management and an uncontrolled cost base, the result was inevitable.

full article: http://news.com.com/Commentary+Dot-coms+...40772.html

[bargainbloodhound]

[jezebel]

Say it ain't so, Boo. 

[mandy]

Boo.com is back and a new site will be launched in June 2006.

They missed the relaunch date.    Still waiting...no firm date for Boo II


Recent media on the relaunch
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/24/boo...007-maybe/
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2006/11/24/boocom-to-relaunch/
http://www.tnl.net/blog/2006/11/28/why-t...kes-sense/

[jezebel]

I'm dressing the underwear man.  ;D

[mandy]

It died a fashion site and was reborn as a travel site.

   Boo.com is back! The Irish owners of the prominent HostelWorld.com accommodation-booking site, Web Reservations International, have acquired the notorious Boo.com domain, infamous as one of the landmark European dotbomb failures of 2000.

The company will harness the marketable aspects of the domain Boo.com to create a whole new travel site to “change the way travel is bought and sold on the internet”.

The Boo.com collapse of 2000 was one of the more spectacular and dramatic failures of that time. It began as a fashion portal selling apparel and was noted for its use of an avatar called Miss Boo. However, the technology was pre-broadband and too advanced for most internet users based on 56Kbps modems

Excessive spending that involved five-star hotels and trans-Atlantic Concorde flights by its young founders and expensive advertising campaigns failed to match earnings on the site and it collapsed in May 2000 after spending US$120m...

full article: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news...single8257

THE NOO BOO!!!!! GO DOT FLOP GO!!!! http://www.boo.com

[jezebel]

I wasn't finished playing with underwear man yet. 

[bargainbloodhound]

The company will harness the marketable aspects of the domain Boo.com

"the marketable aspects"....hmmm..."notorious", "infamous", "dotbomb failure".  The perfect ingredients for creating threads like this one.

[rose]

What's next, Webvan II?