One born every minute
: On the Internet, I’m just as proud of what I didn’t do as I am of what I did. I avoided investment in Pointcast, the newsy screensaver (great: our audience isn’t using their PC and we don’t even know if they’re seeing our product but we’ll raise a lot of money from stupid VCs anyway). And I ran away from CueCat, the now-legendary boondoggle that said we were all going to sit at our PCs reading bar codes in print dto get to sites on the Internet. The man who brought us CueCat has shamelessly come up with a new, uh, product: bottled rainwater (great, does it come with acid and burned hydrocarbons?). The Charlotte Observer has the hilarious details. By the way, P.T. Barnum was wrong. There’s not a sucker born every minute. But there might be a flimflam man born that often. [via Romenesko]
3 responses to “One born every minute”
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The entire quote is: “There’s a sucker born every minute. And two to take him.”
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The one good thing about CueCat was that they sent me a free bar code reader that I could use to auto-catalog my books by scanning the ISBN bar codes.
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Hey, that link is to a story in the Dallas Observer, not Charlotte…
I always thought the cue cat made an excellent doorstop.
