http://watchmojo.com/web/blog Covering Online Video, Web, Search, Investing, Technology, Strategy, Investing, M&A, Financing, VCs Mon, 12 May 2008 03:46:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hmm... can we please buy a positive headline? http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/11/extra-extra-our-industry-is-going-down/ Editor’s note: this week we commemorate the 2-year anniversary of the lawsuit that almost killed Mojo Supreme back in May 2006. See Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or read on for Part 6, below: The Final Countdown: Down to One Business Day I went to bed on Thursday night half-joking ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/11/flashback-part-6-may-12th-2006-the-final-countdown/ Back in 1997, Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he were running Apple.  He answered: And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker. ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/11/dells-words-come-back-to-haunt-him-11-years-on/ Rupert Murdoch, Mort Zuckerman, the Dolans. All very smart, successful and savvy media owners. Yet, despite the fact that newspapers and magazines are going down the toilet, they are about to plunk down $580 to $650M for Newsday. Buying Newsday would have given the News Corporation control of a third major ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/11/newsday-what-do-media-moguls-see-that-others-miss/ Editor’s note: this week we commemorate the 2-year anniversary of the lawsuit that almost killed Mojo Supreme back in May 2006. See Part 1, 2, 3, 4, or read on for Part 5, below: I was hesitating between revisiting this entire ordeal: the lawsuit was a week of hell I'd ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/11/flashback-part-5-may-11th-2006-scrambling-for-a-strategy/ If Powerset does indeed sell to MSFT, then it's a perfect case of Buy On The Rumor Sell On The News. The natural language search startup forever stuck in stealth mode has yet to make a dent in the search space; actually, it's yet to launch. With all of the hype this ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/10/buy-on-the-rumor-sell-on-the-news-should-powerset-sell/ I missed the precise date of this, but some time in April, we crossed the 10M mark for video streams in the first four months of 2008. We did 10M in all of 2007, up from 5M in 2006.  So do the math and we now have 25M since we launched ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/10/two-watchmojocom-milestones-in-april-10m-streams-ytd-and-25m-since-launch/ Editor's note: this week we commemorate the 2-year anniversary of the lawsuit that almost killed Mojo Supreme back in May 2006. See Part 1, 2 and 3 or read on for Part 4, below: Litigation is a Racket I've frequently quoted former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler who ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/10/flashback-part-4-may-10th-2006-an-anti-climactic-start/ Tech Crunch - which is becoming a F*ckedCompany.com 2.0 - adds yet one more company to the deadpool: We introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring how many people read them. Somewhere along the way, it also turned into an Alexa-like ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/09/operational-vs-financial-success-pick-one/ Editor's note: this week we commemorate the 2-year anniversary of the lawsuit that almost killed Mojo Supreme back in May 2006. So two years ago right now, I had come to grips with the reality that my former partners had declared war on me and used the weight of their parent ... http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/05/09/flashback-may-9th-2006-eve-of-destruction/