CNN.com - Japanese entrepreneur spreads blogging gospel - Jun 2, 2004: "Ito joined friends from international schools in creating Japan's first Web pages.

'People thought we were crazy. But we had great confidence because we saw that it was going to be giant one day,' said Cyrus Shaoul, one of Ito's international-school buddies. 'The point wasn't to make a lot of money. The point was to change the world.'"