Archive for June, 2007

Yesterday, we covered Newscorp’s alleged interest in selling MySpace off to Yahoo!. Today, we’ll take a big step back and ruminate another potential transaction: The sale of Yahoo! itself. Now, this is all hearsay at the moment, but we can’t simply discount the murmurs on the subject as noise. There’s got to be something to [...]

I got a little scoop today from our friends at Powerset Powerlabs. Since the news release of Powerlabs readers have expressed a rather insatiable desire to see something from inside the Powerset development. Today the Powerset blog has announced that their front end is being launched in Ruby – the object oriented programming language. We are very [...]

Let me start this off by stating that I recognize the intention as good. Apple making strides to bridge its soon-to-be-released iPhone with the wealth of content YouTube providesis a no-brainer. All those video clips wrapped inside a luscious UI to take with you wherever you go? What could be better? (High-resvideo clips wrapped in [...]

You’ve seen the headlines. Declarations that Mr Murdoch is fiddling with the idea of selling MySpace off to Yahoo! for a 25% stake in the Net’s #1 portal. That would mean those at Newscorp thought their dastardly ugly (they of course likely think she’s beautiful, as does most any parent – particular a parent with [...]

I sometimes have a strange feeling that a majority of new web applications that are launched daily are mostly launched for bloggers to write initial reviews, create some buzz and bring a handful of early adapters to the application. And only a select few apps actually get visibility among mainstream users, those that are actually [...]

Google’s circle of office apps is complete. Kinda. Well, not really. The Mountain View-based megalith has only announced its purchase of “the assets of Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations.” Prior to the purchase, Zenter was a Y Combinator baby. What Google intends to do with the technologies acquired is [...]

Just yesterday I spent some time in the evening going through an assortment of digital notes and memos I managed to amass over the last several weeks. Throughout the years I’ve come to realize how forgetful I can be, so whatever I’d like to keep in mind but can’t – for whatever reason – I [...]

Truemor: What Google is *really* planning for 2008. Okay, the rumor starts here(my theory, doh)… Short version: elgoog (Google) is planning to launch the world's largest social networking site 'overnight' and at the flick of a switch and will become the Mitsubishi of the internet. Huh? Exactly. Let me explain… while Yahoo! and others continue to [...]

One of my favorite Web 2.0 startups Veoh invited me to a webinar today to unveil what they termed a “Joost Killer”, their latest innovation VeohTV Beta. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of Veoh has proved to be one of the most innovative and intelligent developers of this year and continues to add one excellent aspect after another to [...]