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Boo.com, the poster-child for the ‘Dot Com’ days. Boo.com was a United Kingdom Internet company which is famous for it’s bust in the late 1990s when the dot com bubble bust.

Boo.com was to sell branded fashion wear over the Internet, however after spending vast sums of its venture capital, it eventually had to be liquidate.

Some blame the management of how Boo.com’s founders famously spent their way through nearly $120 million of funding. Others saying that it’s web site was way ahead of it’s time, and was even poorly build.

The site relied heavily on JavaScript and Flash technology to generate a pseudo-3D views of wares as well as Miss Boo, a sales-assistant-style. The site was sexy none the less, but has a very long loading time as ‘broadband’ speeds were still not widely available at the time.

There is even a book ‘Boo Hoo’ written by one of Boo.com’s founder, describing he’s first hand account of how they manage to rise the ridiculous amount of funding in such short time and blow it all way in a much shorter time. From concept to catastrophe.

Going to Boo.com site now you will see a page saying ‘the Boo is back’. Read closely it says “Boo is back and a new site will be launch in 2006. Seeing that it’s November already I think there might be some delay. TechCrunch UK however confirms that Boo.com will relaunch in 2007.

Boo.com wasn’t the only company that burst during the Dot com bubble, there are others, but Boo.com’s story is one of the more famous ones. Most of the ideas and concept behind those start-up are somewhat way ahead of its time.

With this whole “Web 2.0″ buzz creating another bubble, we might just see more of these start-up making a comeback. Now might just be the right time for these Internet concepts and ideas.

As for me I love to see another dot com era as I’ve missed the last one.

LINK [ Boo is back ]
BUY[ Boo hoo, from concept to catastrophe ]

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