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Apr 24, 2002, 5:27pm

just quoting:

http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/quotes_reports.asp?symbol=AWLD`&selected=AWLD

and just in case i want to save whats left from my 7 years in AW before
it will be kind of stroken by a meteor again :

how to save an offline version of a small 30 qm² town around AW 25552n
2200w ?
http://mapper.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/map/map-aw/c4/aw16+25920+25920.html?450,450

Apr 24, 2002, 6:38pm

Their stocks have never been high.. it's currently been around the $.20
range for the past couple months. That was until they raised their pricing
and the management started to buy and sell some stock to get people
interested in investment.

--Bowen--

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Apr 24, 2002, 7:25pm

From http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/quotes_reports.asp?symbol=AWLD`&selected=AWLD
:

"The principal activities of the company is to provide software products and
services that enable the efficient development and delivery of
three-dimensional content to the internet and intranet. the users can
utilize these technology to create objects and structures in the virtual
worlds which other users can see and explore in real time. the
three-dimensional technology has a wide variety of applications in education
and entertainment industry. the company acts as an application service
provider and permits users to license its technology for integration into
their web applications which may be hosted on to the company's server.
clients of the company include boeing, carlsberg brewing, philips
multimedia, the canadian ministry of education, swiss telecom and the
university of london."


Is it just me, or do they have some serious grammar/punctuation issues?

-How about capitalizing the first letter of the beggining of a sentence...
-The first sentence has a subject verb agreement problem.. "activities" is
plural, "is" is singular.. change "is" to "are"
-In the second sentence "thechnology" should be "technoligies", or change
"these" to "this". (also subject verb agreement..)
-Insert "the".... "in *the* education and..." of change "industry" to
"industries".
-Shouldn't "university of london" be University of London?

Sorry if i'm insluting anyone, but sheesh.. was this written by a third
grader?

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Jeremy Booker
JTech Web Systems
(www.JTechWebSystems.com -- Coming Soon)
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Apr 24, 2002, 7:31pm

Well, that's something else we can add to their crap list. ;) I noticed
that too when I went through it the second time. I think they themselves
had to submit that info, so maybe JP typed it up since he's the CFO..

--Bowen--

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Apr 24, 2002, 9:46pm

Have you given it any thought that maybe someone non-related to AWCom typed
it up?:)
You two bored?:)
FYI...the above questions are rhetorical...no need to reply...just food for
thought:)
And if ya'll critique my grammer in here I'm going to thwack ya:)

Apr 24, 2002, 9:49pm

Yea, I mean.. I have better things to do than sit arround and correct
people's grammer all day. E-mails and newsgroup posting are informal anyway,
so grammer/spelling doesn't matter as much. Just as long as you get the
point across.

However, when it comes to a paragraph (probably written by AWCOM) describing
a company for business dealings I expect much better than 5th grade writing
skills.

-J

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Jeremy Booker
JTech Web Systems
(www.JTechWebSystems.com -- Coming Soon)
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Apr 24, 2002, 9:53pm

Lol.. rhetorical or not, i'm going to reply anyway...

I'm not sure who typed it. Could have been AWCom, or it may not have been.
Still, my point remains... On a stock quote/exchange site anyone would
expect to see better grammer than that.

No need to thwack me.. ;-) I'm not that bored.. As I said before, e-mail is
informal.. grammer/spelling don't matter as much.

-J.

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Jeremy Booker
JTech Web Systems
(www.JTechWebSystems.com -- Coming Soon)
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Apr 24, 2002, 10:13pm

That's what I was getting at originally. I don't think AWCom would trust
anyone else to write a company summary about what they do unless they
actually know. I would very much expect the CFO, JP, to be writting that.
I would also expect that, as Jeremy said, a much better grammatical level
then 5th grade. At least high school material.

--Bowen--

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Apr 24, 2002, 10:35pm

Hey...I have worked as a temp admin asst for many years now and have typed
up alot of legal and important docs for all sorts of major companies.
And sent them to the proper people without them being proofed.
Who even knows if that document had to be retyped by whomever hosts the
page?
You know something? Just a thought, but I wonder what would happen if major
companies talked about thier customers the way SOME customers talked about
them in public?:)
I know.....freedom of speech.....just would love to see it go both ways
sometimes...LOL....gosh...I know I would look silly sometimes:)....Would
you?:)

Apr 24, 2002, 10:39pm

For all the posts above this one...it's GRAMMAR not GRAMMER, and A LOT is
two words, not ALOT. Whoo, my two pet peeves in one post.


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Apr 24, 2002, 10:57pm

Why would they risk that? It would be stupid since your customers are your
source of revenue, your only source of revenue. If your company gets no
customers, stocks go down, the company goes bankrupt. If they don't like
the verbal criticism that people give them, they really shouldn't be a
company then should, they? It's not like all of us go around saying F this
and F that. There's a couple of us that tell them, "hey, you know your plan
isn't acceptable with what you're currently offering. Here's a better idea.
I know you're having a rough time, but doing this will put off a majority of
your customers" And it's been very true. The user count went from 500 some
odd people to about 200-300 some odd people.. that's half the user base. I
expect by the time the user accounts expire it'll drop another 100.

It's not our fault they've made bad buiness decisions and we're criticising
what they're doing. They really need to think and do things that help
promote. That's one of they keys to running a successful business. Another
thing is to lower prices to increase demand. Thus you have more users, then
increase it to something that everyone can afford so you don't lose that use
base you just gained (i.e. raise from $20 -> $35, not $20 -> $70 and their
original plan of $20 -> $120). Companies have liability if they did do bad
things like say something about their customers. The customers paid for
use, and they have every right to do and say whatever they wish, especially
if they're extremely displeased with the services. And the company can't
just go sue for slander, because of the freedom of speech. There's a lot of
things that could happen, but that's just what I think :D

--Bowen--

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Apr 24, 2002, 11:07pm

But this is email and ngs...anything goes is what I heard....LOL
Xav!.....Long time no see!...How's it going?:)

Apr 24, 2002, 11:07pm

I just said it would be interesting:)

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