Coin in on the web

For web-based businesses, success is in the imagination of the beholder.

Adecade ago, when the World Wide Web first emerged from the desktops of hopeless geeks into the limelight of public confusion, we believed that it would permanently alter the very foundations of our capitalistic economy. We were right. The web played no small part in relieving us of our lat€1990s prosperity.

In those exciting early days everyone had an idea for creating a...