Archive for May, 2007
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007As someone who has been diligently and enthusiastically blogging for three years, I find it somewhat amusing (and encouraging) to see the mainstream media finally climbing on board the blogging bandwagon. After trying to ignore and/or dismiss blogs as nothing more than a fad and not worth the time or effort to explore, the mainstream [...]
Another Blow for Newspapers?
Friday, May 11th, 2007Everyone knows Facebook has become a social networking phenomena but can the company’s influence migrate into other areas. We’ll soon find out as Facebook is adding free classified ads. For anyone looking to reach an audience of 22 million active users (many of them young people who don’t read newspapers), this is a huge opportunity.
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Mobile Skype..Finally!
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Skype is terrific - a free or low-cost tool to make long-distance phone calls. More than 100 million registered users can’t be wrong, right? One of Skype’s few Achilles Heels is the difficulty using it on a wireless device, which would be terrific given how expensive it can be to make a long-distance call on [...]
It’s Good to be Niklas Zennstrom
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Must be good to be Nikas Zennstrom these days. You sell Skype to eBay for a lofty $3.1-billion, and then decide to launch another start-up, Joost, to disrupt the television/video industry. It turns out investors like your track record and the Joost story so they agree to pony up $45-million in venture capital. I guess [...]
Blog Bash ‘07, NYC
Thursday, May 10th, 2007If you’re looking to be a better blog, b5media is hoping to help. We’re holding a Blog Bash ‘07 conference in New York on June 9 at the Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel. The speakers will include Darren “Mr. Problogger” Rowse and Brian “Mr. Copyblogger” Clark. The one-day conference will feature panels on advertising, blog platforms, legal [...]
Do the Deal Already!
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007The eBay-StumbleUpon deals is apparently back on the front-burner, according to the Wall St. Journal. The price-tag is now $75-million, which is staggering given StumbleUpon raised $1.5-million last year. To be honest, I still don’t see the fit but I didn’t see how Paypal fit into eBay’s corporate strategy. In particular, I don’t understand the [...]
New and Improved Google Analytics
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007In my mind, the Web statistics market is still wide open for someone to capture given there’s so much inconsistency between the different tools that people are currently using. Google looks like it’s making a big move to grab more market share with an improved version of Google Analytics that features a more user-friendly [...]
Did Flickr Sell Too Early?
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007No lack of discussion about MySpace buying PhotoBucket for $300-million ($250-million plus a $50-million earn-out) but one thing that struck me is whether the founders of Flickr, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, are having yet another round of sellers’ remorse given they sold their photo-sharing company to Yahoo for about $50-million in 2005. Of course, [...]
mesh’s Political Meet-Up
Monday, May 7th, 2007Wouldn’t it be great to see the same kind of enthusiasm about social networking and user-generated content in Canada has in the U.S.? Well, the mesh gang is hoping to do our part by having a meet-up for political types on May 9 (Wednesday) at the Charlotte Room in downtown Toronto. Who knows, maybe some [...]
Advertisers Scared of New Ways to Reach Consumers
Monday, May 7th, 2007An article in today’s New York Times talks about how advertisers are taking a pragmatic (cautious?) approach to mobile video. It cites a six-episode series based on the television show “Smallville”, which was popular with consumers but only attracted one advertiser, Sprint. One of the biggest challenges (problems?) apparently facing mobile video content makers is [...]
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