Archive for November, 2006
Running a Web TV company, we’re bombarded with content delivery network firms every day: Akamai, Limelight Networks, you name it, they pitch us day in and day out. Eventually, as our traffic grows, I know we’ll have to go with one to ensure that from Kabul to Kansas, Buenos Aires to Beijing, you can watch […]
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Blogger Fred Wilson asks: Can you fake authenticity?
It’s an interesting question; he defines the term as “that intangible feeling you get when you come across a service that does exactly what it is supposed to do, is novel, true to itself, etc. Digg, Delicious, Flickr, and Craigslist are all authentic services and have remained so.”
First […]
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On the surface, today’s decision by Google to shut down Google Answers is not a big deal.
Symbolically, it is, and that is because unless you have followed Google somewhat closely or been online for years, you might not even recall that Google Answers was one of the first forays away from pure Web search for the Mountain View […]
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Yesterday I asked how much longer Lloyd Braun would remove at Yahoo! When I did, I pointed out that Yahoo! could be doing a lot more in terms of video, be it in the areas of creation or aggregation. When I did, one of my contacts at Yahoo! who is busy “dialing it in” and […]
Tags: Management, Startups|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Nov 28th
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Barry Diller is one smart man. Nothing new there, not the first to say that.
The gentleman who started his career in William Morris’ mailroom climbed all the way to now being recognized as one of the main online players around.
The company he now leads, InterActive Corp., has had as many lives as your luckiest cat: Home […]
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News is huge. More people access news than porn. All right, probably not. But more people turn to the to access news than to be entertained (even though Johnny Carson was right in saying that people want to be entertained and not educated) or to get weather information etc.
You would think that if this was […]
Tags: Internet & Web, Management|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Nov 28th
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Interesting to read this about Qualcomm, especially in light of us including QCOM - and omitting RIMM over legal and competitive issues - in the Top 10 Web/IT Stocks of the Past, Present and Future.
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File this one under: Things that make you go hmm…
This past Sunday I wrote about my third book (which I am working on in my spare time, ie. not working on Mojo Supreme), Context is King. The book is essentially a combination of the macro-level trends around us now as well as the rationale behind the business […]
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It’s hard to keep the hits coming. We’re talking about stocks and investor relations, of course, but that applies to many things.
After we penned our Top 10 Best Web Acquisitions, we knew we had to think of something better for our next Top 10 list. We thought long and hard and realized that there were few lists highlighting some of […]
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Indeed it’s true that Google is mining a lot of data these days. John Battelle asks some good questions.
Note to self: read this before Google deletes his site.
Check out our recent post about Google’s alarming data mining ambitions and the postential reason for it here.
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