Successful Net Firms Playing Gore to Dot-Coms' Clinton

Wednesday

Adam Lashinsky on the State of the Internet

Dan Colarusso on Internet Growth Projections

Katherine Hobson on E-tailers' Push for Profitability

Catherine Valenti on Ailing Internet Funds

Jamie Heller on Using the Net to Track Net Stocks

Thursday

Tracy Byrnes on the Frenzy Next Time

George Mannes on Self-Hating Dot-Coms

K.C. Swanson on Old Economy Winners

David Gaffen on Measuring the Internet Economy

Friday

Ian McDonald on 'Butterfly' Companies

Justin Lahart on Real Net Valuations

Joe Bousquin on Building the Perfect Net Company

A Dan Gross Opinion Piece: Were the Old Guys Right?

TSC Roundtable on Predicting Six-Month Winners

Roland Jones on The Last Days of Daytrading

Eric Gillin on Working for a Dot-Com

It's no shock that dot-coms have become financial world scapegoats. But it is a surprise to see how quickly companies of the Internet, by the Internet and for the Internet are trying to distance themselves from their fallen comrades.

Instead of expressing sympathy for smaller, less successful dot-coms that have gotten bogged down in recent months, strong-performing Internet firms such as America Online (AOL Quote) are rubbing their faces in it. Instead of sticking up for companies with which they once were closely associated, they're sticking it to them.

Call it the self-hating dot-com syndrome. Driven in part by the market's revulsion toward once-stratospheric Internet stocks, the remaining Internet-based companies still enjoying double-digit stock prices are loudly proclaiming their independence from fellow Netcos. Furthermore, they're confiding that they never understood what the other Internet companies were thinking in the first place, despite a decent amount of evidence to the contrary.

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