About
Please let Doug Davidson take you back in time, as history is the most important reference point of all trends.
Just step far back to 1992 when you would have engaged with Doug on bulletin board services (BBS) or on the Internet through newsgroups, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Gopher and FTP sites.
Back then, search tools were interestingly named Archie and Veronica. There was no Yahoo or Google at the time. The first web browser, NCSA Mosaic would appear in March 1993, at which time Doug got into web authoring.
Microsoft had just put up their first web site with a huge clickable navigation imagemap for a home page. By the time Netscape came out with its first browser, Doug had created his first corporate web site, as an extension of the professional media and digital video authoring work he was doing for a national multimedia company. He also created his first community web site around that time.
Even when Amazon.com arrived on the scene in 1995 with online shopping, there were no easy means for smaller businesses to get shopping carts for their sites, or to take credit card payments.
Meanwhile, Doug was working away at commercial grade digital video production for off-line media and video-on-demand R&D with major players. Who really knew where all this was really headed? DVD was just on the horizon for mainstream home entertainment, and the cliché catch words of the day were “Information Highway.”
Even in 1996, many businesses hardly paid serious attention to the Internet. But by 1999, the dot com era was in full swing.
While all this was happening, Doug foresaw the future of the Internet.
Doug’s direction took him into information technology, landing him in banking, and then government security. During his time in banking and government security, Doug got to learn the in’s and out’s of online systems – ranging from small online transaction systems, to national eGovernment systems and up to billion dollar electronic infrastructures.
Doug also started 3 companies, and began marketing online six years ago. He now owns and operates several online business web sites.
Doug has seen the Internet change from the inception of the World Wide Web as we know it today. From this, he can share one constant which is that there will always be change with underlying trends. Small players can become big overnight, and big players can disappear just as fast. Yet, the changes always follow trends regardless of players. Like riding a wave, trends can catapult or crush like tons of turbulent water on a totally stunned surfer. Just don’t fight the trend. Let it propel you.
That said, Doug has dedicated this site to fleshing out the trends in Internet business through conversation. So let the conversation begin…
