Monthly Archives: September 2007

Can You Say EchoBox?

By Mark Evans | Published: September 25, 2007
The Slingbox is downright cool. It’s one of those devices that you never realize how much you like until you actually use it to remotely watch your home television over the Web. As much I love the Slingbox, I always had two questions about the company. Is it possible to build a big enough business by [...]
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$100M = 1% = Wow!

By Mark Evans | Published: September 24, 2007
According to the Wall St. Journal, Microsoft has held preliminary discussions to invest $100-million in Facebook based on a valuation of $10-billion…or more. It’s astounding that $100-million would give Microsoft a 1% stake. Of course, a $100-million investment in Google right now would give you a 0.06% stake. So what’s next? Has Facebook started an investment [...]
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Google: Is There Life Beyond Search and AdSense?

By Mark Evans | Published: September 24, 2007
Hey, I’m just as Google-obsessed as the next guy. After all, it’s impossible not to be fascinated by a company with the world’s dominant search engine, an ad business that tosses off billions of dollars in profits, and a willingness to give its R&D people the freedom to launch pretty much anything what they want. But [...]
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EMC Snaps Up Mozy

By Mark Evans | Published: September 23, 2007
According to TechCrunch, EMC has acquired Mozy, a popular online storage start-up. Mozy has become an important part of my small portfolio “go to” Web-based services along with Paypal, StumbleUpon, eBay and Google Reader. Mozy works because it’s a snap to set up and configure, user-friendly and, most important, it does the job. I’ve been [...]
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Me Too Usually Mean Peugh

By Mark Evans | Published: September 22, 2007
BlogTV.ca led a short and completely unspectacular life. But it’s not like anyone should be surprised. As the 642th video-filing sharing service to be launched, BlogTV.ca hinged its prospects on a very thin threat: it was going to Canada’s YouTube – not withstanding the fact few people on the Web consider a company’s nationality to matter. BlogTV.ca [...]
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I’d Like to Hire a Co-Blogger Too!

By Mark Evans | Published: September 21, 2007
This blogging gig must be getting good given the flurry of high-profile hirings recently – actually, they’ve been only two but you get my point. First, Marshall Kirkpatrick leaves a good job with SplashCast to work for Richard MacManus’ popular Read/WriteWeb. Now, Erick Schonfeld has become a co-writer at TechCrunch – good timing since his last [...]
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