The Gillmor Gang convened Wednesday to ponder the last several weeks of events loosely contained in a discussion of the next generation Web operating system. Three major announcements set the table for this Thanksgiving edition: Google's ChromeOS, Microsoft's Silverlight 4, and salesforce's Chatter collaboration platform. The last might be pigeonholed as enterprise Twitter, but Marc Benioff's position...
Microsoft opens a new front in its battle with Google EVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right. Jason Calacanis, a blogging mogul, recently argued that there is a simple solution to the woes of both Microsoft and big media companies. The world’s largest software firm should pay Time Warner, News Corporation and others to block Google, the search giant, from indexing their content—and...
Bing and online newspapers Web-wide war Microsoft opens a new front in its battle with Google EVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and noted agent provocateur, recently argued that there is a simple solution to the woes of both Microsoft and big media companies. The world’s largest software firm should pay Time Warner, News Corporation and others firms...
Bing and online newspapers: Web-wide war | The Economist. EVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and noted agent provocateur, recently argued that there is a simple solution to the woes of both Microsoft and big media companies. I give credit to Mark Cuban, from May of 2008: Beating Google ? But what about the [...]
AOL will spin off from Time Warner next week and trade as a separate company. This week, some Wall Street banks have started coverage of the stock with initial remarks and recommendations. Read the rest of this story » See Also: AOL's Stock Is Worth $37, Says Barclays (AOL) AOL's First Acquisition... Associated Content? Jason Calacanis: "I Plan On Buying $250,000 Worth Of AOL Stock"...
Wordpress has risen to be a powerhouse on the Internet that now dominates the blogosphere. It was started by the (now) 25-year-old Matt Mullenweg . Last week he was on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis. On the show Matt revealed that Wordpress has such a strong presence on the Internet that at least one in three Americans online have visited a Wordpress blog in the last month. Wordpress lets...
Microsoft opens a new front in its battle with Google EVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and noted agent provocateur, recently argued that there is a simple solution to the woes of both Microsoft and big media companies. The world’s largest software firm should pay Time Warner, News Corporation and others firms to block Google, the search giant,...
Murdoch's Google gambit shakes up the blogosphere . The Financial Times reports that Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Microsoft to remove his news empire, which includes the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, from Google's search listings. The move, which has been mulled by some commentators for years, and had recently been floated by Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis, could reshape both the search and...
How many readers of this blog think this is a coincidence? Jason Calacanis makes a snarky remark, predicting that Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. should cut an exclusive deal with Microsoft - for all the News Corp content - once it gets pulled from Google’s search engine index. And then that exact deal happens? I mean come on, how obvious is that? Jason gets put up - to ‘float the idea’...
Last week I was at the WNY Venture Association seminar on “Angel Investing in Western New York.” Not the sexiest market, in particular not for web technology. But some interesting tidbits came out of it — Ron Schreiber (Softbank Capital; Ingram-Micro co-founder) put some interesting nuggets out there. For VC firms, the 10-year annual return [...] Related posts: AngelConf – my...
What's scariest about this animated visualization of American jobless rates? The animation doesn't include the figures released just last week, which would make the final frame even darker. The Decline: Geography of a Recession, by Latoya Egwuekwe (American Observer, via Jason Calacanis) Previously:Unemployment stats in the USA just got worse - Boing Boing...
AOL debuted a "new brand identity" last night, "Aol." It came with six new logos. Today, AOL PR sent out the video component (.mov). The new logos and brand are for when AOL ( Pronounced A-O-L still, or A-ole?) spin-off from Time Warner (TWX) in early December. Here are the bulletpoints the AOL spokesperson sent to explain the new brand: In it’s simplest form the new AOL...
Maybe NewsCorp. is dumb enough to give this a shot, but - contra Jason Calacanis - it won't work : Microsoft wants to pay News Corp and other large publishers to de-list their Web sites from Google's search index, the Financial Times reports. The idea is to force Google to pay for content, thinning its currently fat margins. As Business Insider notes, content from NewsCorp stories will find their...
As the founder of Weblogs Inc., Jason Calacanis is, in many ways, the cofounder of the new AOL, which will be built around the company's network of 80 blogs and content sites. So when we asked the Mahalo CEO for his take on AOL's future, we thought he'd toss a helpful quote our way. We got much more. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Kudos To AOL's Tim Armstrong... Here's To A New Beginning...
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