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...
I have been listening to TWiT, The Week in Tech podcast, for a little while now and I really like the banter on the show. I am a couple weeks behind, but show 219 had a great discussion of net neutrality. The transcript is available, but here are my two favorite quotes: Jason Calacanis: But for [...]
Every so often, internet pontificators try to come up with ways to "kill Google." It's a silly game, but in an oddly timed move, three people (who have all put forth "how to kill Google" ideas in the past) all suddenly published similar ideas, yet again. Jason Calacanis , Mark Cuban and Tom Foremski all posted similar ideas about how certain sites (such as the top sites in the top...
Jason Calacanis is starting a new company called the Open Angel Forum. The reason he is starting this company is because he is sick of angel groups such as the Keiretsu Forum, Maverick Angels, and AlwaysOn charging start-ups for presenting. The investment company that Calacanis is starting will be a for-profit and will have [...]
Last month, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams stated that the he "desperately" wanted to retire the company's suggested user list - the list of Twitter accounts shown to new users of the service to help them find interesting people to follow. At the time, he hinted that it might evolve into something more "Twittery and democratic." But now, what was a maybe" before...
The story and debate around Rupert Murdoch blocking Google from indexing News Corp. websites (Fox, WSJ, etc) has been fun to read. Techcrunch reported on Jason Calacanis , CEO of the search engine Mahalo, who thought it was a great idea: [Calacanis's] simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right to index it... If other media...
TechCrunch agrees with Cory's (and Jason Calacanis') predictions from last week: Murdoch is about to sign an exclusivity deal with an also-ran search engine. (There was more at the Graun.) Mike Arrington, however, suggests this will succeed in hurting Google....
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