Wednesday August 01, 2007

Bubble Boy

When I arrived in New York in October 2000, the dot-com bubble had already burst. Pseudo.com, the much-hyped webcasting site, had tanked a few months earlier, although its founder, Josh Harris, was still making news. Stories of his millennial bash floated around, his “We Live in Public” experiment was yet to come, and his claim that Pseudo would put CBS out of business was regularly cited as the ultimate in Silicon Alley hubris. Of course, six years later—after Google threw down $1.65 billion for YouTube—Harris’s claim suddenly sounded a lot less nutty, and I wondered where he’d gone.

It turns out he’s been laying low on an apple farm in Livingston, N.Y., although he recently emerged to launch a new “social television network” called Operator 11. For the rest of the story, read my update on Harris at Radar Online.