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		<title>The Omega Men of the Internet?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BoomTown hates to miss any possible opportunity to reference a Charlton Heston movie and, thus, was struck by a report by a Wall Street analyst that Google and Amazon will be the sole survivors of the most recent digital age.

Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said as much in a 310-page report, "U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning" he penned, noting that only the search giant and the e-commerce pioneer had legs.]]></description>
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<p>BoomTown hates to miss any possible opportunity to reference a Charlton Heston movie and, thus, was struck by <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080604/google-nasa-ames/">a report by a Wall Street analyst that Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN) will be the sole survivors of the most recent digital age</a>.</p>
<p>Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said as much in a 310-page report, &#8220;U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning&#8221; he penned, noting that only the search giant and the e-commerce pioneer had legs.</p>
<p>Yahoo (YHOO)? Acquired by Microsoft (MSFT).</p>
<p>IAC (IACI)? Split up into five too-teeny, ineffective parts.</p>
<p>And eBay (EBAY)? Acquisition bait for a &#8220;Microsoft-like suitor,&#8221; if it cannot goose the growth in its key auction business.</p>
<p>While BoomTown loves a good predictions piece as much the next blogger, the report&#8217;s conclusions feel like it has a bit of a backward-looking tone.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/06/51wo2jmw93l_sl500_aa240_.jpg' alt='officer' class='alignleft'/></p>
<p>That&#8217;s because who knows what tomorrow brings, in a world few geeks survive.</p>
<p>Oops, now I am channeling the love song &#8220;Up Where We Belong&#8221; from &#8220;An Officer and a Gentleman,&#8221; and that <em>can&#8217;t</em> be good.</p>
<p>Suffice it to say, there is a new company you&#8217;ve never heard of&#8211;that might not even exist yet&#8211;and that&#8217;s the one everyone really needs to be scared of.</p>
<p>But not scarier than this video in anime and with guns inexplicably blazing, using the Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes song&#8211;though BoomTown definitely likes it&#8211;here:</p>
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