Interview with Joel Comm of World Village
Joel is an Internet entrepreneur who has been online for 20 years. In 1995, he launched WorldVillage.com, a family-friendly portal to the web which enjoys thousands of visitors each day. He is one-half of the brain trust behind ClassicGames.com, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 1997, and now goes by the name Yahoo! Games. Since then, Joel’s company, InfoMedia, Inc., has launched over a dozen web sites, including the popular bargain-hunting shopping site, DealofDay.com (coupon codes), SafetySurf.com (parental control) and Family First. He has also authored an ebook on making money with Google Adsense. He is known as the Mayor of WorldVillage, an unelected position better qualified as a benevolent dictatorship.
Chris spent a large amount of time speaking with Joel about the present and future of online advertising, and how contextually-relevant ads will force the television, magazine, newspaper, and radio industries to change their models. This particular conversation is driven by two individuals who have been creating content online for close to a decade. Chris and Joel are both publishers AND users.
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Garry Conn dot Com
July 20th, 2008
at 7:53am
match for the character. Joel declined the offer and then later decided to have some fun making games for Yahoo! A few years later, Joel scores it big by telling people how rich he is because of all the loose change people throw into his penny jar.Chris Pirillo did an interview with Joel Commback on March 29th of 2005. Speaking of Chris Pirillo, he is next on the list. Of course the above about the Lawnmower man is a joke, but really Joel did have a hand in Yahoo! games.
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December 5th, 2007
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Aakash
August 23rd, 2007
at 9:03pm
I hope the comment I posted here the other day went through. If it is not going to be published, please send me a copy of it; I neglected to save it, before I posted it here, and I would like to have it.