With the explosive growth of the Internet, people everywhere are bringing their dreams and schemes to life as Web sites. In "net.people, get up close and personal with the creators of 36 of the world’s most intriguing online ventures. For the first time, these entrepreneurs and visionaries share their personal stories and hard-won secrets of Webmastering. You’ll learn how each of them launched a home page, increased site traffic, geared up for e-commerce, found financing, dealt with failure and success, built new relationships--and discovered that a Web site had changed their life forever.

A "must" for web history enthusiasts & cyber buffs.
Thomas Bleier and Eric Steinert’s Net.People covers the personalities behind the web sites, from how ideas are translated into Web sites to problems of webmastering and how individuals succeeded in web ventures. A "must read" for cyber buffs and web history enthusiasts!

fun and fascinating
Not since college have I read a book overnight, and that was under duress. net.people on the other hand is a delight; a candid, insightful look into the lives and sites that are fueling the web’s explosive growth. Bleier and Steinert capture the essense of how some people and sites have taken great advantage of the web’s awesome entrepreneurial opportunities. net.people is useful for both the net savvy seeking insights for making their sites more successful and the general public interested in a fascinating glimpse of the internet’s grass roots, pioneers and web celebs.

Will Inspire Others to Go Online Themselves!
Thomas Bleier and Eric Steinert have brought together in net.people the people, the content, and the work that has gone into a sampling of Websites representative of average people like you and me. The book profiles the lives of men and women who offer a variety of informational services that include budget living, comic books, electronic gaming, horse riding, humor, medical advice, misheard song lyrics, B-movies, movie reviews, software reviews, sports, unusual tourist attractions, writer resources, Website reviews, and even celebrity grave sites - honest!

Readers will learn how the ideas of these people were turned into successful Websites and about the amount of time, labor, expense, and strategies involved in launching them. How did they design their Websites? How did they find financing for their sites? How do they draw increased traffic to them? What were the successes and failures they experienced? How have their lives been changed? The answers to these and other questions are here for all to read and learn from.

Just who are these people? They are people just like you and me. They have real interest in sharing certain information with others for fun, and in some cases, for profit of one kind or another. They have knowledge, skill, talent, ideas, and opinions just like anyone else. What makes them different is they have gone online with their offerings. They have experienced the good times and the bad. Readers may be able to identify with them as they read this highly personal and revealing book.

This book will inspire readers to take their own thoughts and ideas online as well. It will help them to further develop their own ideas, to design their own Websites, and come up with their own marketing strategies. It’s highly recommended reading for anyone wanting to go online. Readers will have fewer excuses not to do so after reading this book!

Inspiring!
I found the stories inspiring and was even motivated to start writing my first novel after reading about one of the sites (wordmuseum.com) and the owner of that site. I emailed her and she was extremely nice and helpful with resources to get me started.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in what inspires others to become great.

GREAT Insight to Net Personalities
net.people was such an interesting book for those interested in the personalities behind some of these web sites. It’s good reading and I highly recommend it!