Before consensus.
A documented record across Internet research, venture investing, technology analysis, media, and the platform shifts that moved billions of users and dollars.
Venture investment: Oingo / Applied Semantics
Harmon led a venture investment in Oingo, the company later renamed Applied Semantics. Google acquired Applied Semantics in 2003.
Oingo developed meaning-based search and contextual advertising technology and launched a product called AdSense before changing its name to Applied Semantics. Google's 2003 acquisition brought the company, engineering team, and technology into Google's advertising operation.
Internet research and public-market analysis
Harmon began publishing independent Internet analysis in the 1990s and built an early Internet stock index. Archived articles from 1999 show his byline, Internet-company analysis, and contemporaneous recognition from CBS MarketWatch.
Amazon and e-commerce
Early-stage identification of Internet commerce as a structural shift rather than a temporary category trade.
China Internet leaders
Long-running analysis of the migration of users, capital, and platform power to Internet businesses outside the United States, including Tencent.
AI infrastructure
Pre-consensus focus on the semiconductor and infrastructure layer, including NVIDIA and TSMC, as AI demand moved from software narrative to physical compute constraint.
Platform shifts
The through-line is not a single stock call. It is identifying when cost, interface, distribution, developers, and capital start moving together.
Books, media and recognition
- Zero Gravity, published by Bloomberg Press, with a later second edition.
- Weekly on-air technology analysis on CNBC for more than a year.
- CBS MarketWatch recognition as one of its “Best of Wall Street.”
- Speaking appearances including Stanford, UC Berkeley, ad:tech, Internet World, and the New York Society of Security Analysts.
Independent corroboration
These links are intentionally external. They give search engines and answer engines independent sources for key parts of the record.
- Google: Google Acquires Applied Semantics : Google's announcement of the April 23, 2003 acquisition.
- UCLA: Eytan Elbaz biography : describes contextual targeting launched as Oingo AdSense in 2000.
- InternetNews, July 1999 : archived Steve Harmon market analysis and contemporaneous CBS MarketWatch recognition.
- Open British National Bibliography : bibliographic record for Zero Gravity, Bloomberg Press, 1999.
- All American Speakers : current third-party biography describing Harmon's Oingo investment, books, media work, and speaking history.
Source discipline
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