According to a May 1, 2006 Fortune magazine article by Adam Lashinsky," brace yourself--it's time to say hello to the new Net boom." With the dot com bust, "the Internet... didn't vanish ...folks in the Internet industry kept right on dreaming up new ways to use the revolutionary technology that created the fuss in the first place.

"Today the Net is fulfilling many of the visions its wild-eyed prophets were preaching about just a few years ago. All the impossibly cool applications that seemed so elusive in the late 1990s--Internet phone calls, (legal) downloadable music and movies, high-speed web access on cellphones, online bill paying--are a taken-for-granted part of daily life.The trends that people got excited about when Netscape went public in 1995 are very much in place and will be for 20 to 25 years."

Driving this transformation is the extraordinary growth in the number of people with access to high-speed Internet connections. In 2000 just five million Americans had fast Internet access at home. At the end of 2005 that figure was 73 million, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Those speedy connections have supercharged the online experience, and people are doing exactly what you'd expect: spending vast amounts of time with their eyes glued to computer screens. More important, companies have finally figured out the long-sought key to "monetizing" those eyeballs, mainly by selling advertising, but also by charging for music and video downloads, not to mention for the access itself."

Fortune goes on to suggest different types of investments one can make to cautiously take advantage of this new Net boom.

Another point of view is that one can, perhaps, most effectively take advantage of the new power of the Net by going on the Net and creating a web site or selling experience which takes advantage of the big success stories like Google or eBay. In other words, become your own success story, your own Net investment.

     According to Wired magazine co-founder and technology journalist John Batelle, who recently wrote a book about the rise of online search, twenty five percent of the time people who go online are looking for a commercial transactiion

An estimated 200,000 people make a full-time living selling goods on eBay alone, and millions more earn part-time income

eBay's top 50 affiliates average over $1million in annual commissions

Depending on size and traffic, web sites make anywhere from $300 a month to $100,000 a month off Google ads

Affiliates of successful net businesses can make from several thousand to $100, 000 a month off selling their product, service or business opportunity

            You can put yourself at the center of these success stories by studying how others have done it.

Read on.................

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