TechRadar (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Facebook is having a mid-life crisis. Despite attracting over 300 million users, the social network that pioneered the 'poke' is anxious about growing older. "What was once a convenient way for college kids to hook up," says Om Malik at GigaOm , "has now become the newsfeed of our post-Google lives." Journalists once raved about Facebook as the new MySpace, but attention has since...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Since we reported yesterday on AOL's new logo, vision and creative punctuation tactics, reactions to the new Aol. have flooded in. As did this video, a sneak peek of Aol.'s new campaign: Today, some professional opinions from a few of our design experts: Ken Carbone , CarboneSmolan : This new identity is stillborn. It's old before it is new and signals a desperate attempt to be hip and relevant, somewhat...
Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Om Malik on AOL’s new look and logo: AOL should ask for its money back! These are the same idiots responsible for the 2012 Olympics logo (some have noted it looks like Lisa Simpson performing… er, just look), and the horrible muddled NYC Taxi logo. And this monstrosity is their website. People pay them for this? Seriously?
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Not since AT&T gobbled up Cingular and rebranded as at&t with that ugly Death Star-like logo has a company erred so far from sensibility. The new AOL brand, Aol., is coming soon to frighten you. AOL's attempt to be hip is anything but. Not that AOL, distributor of a billion CD coasters , was ever cool. The service may have been the biggest online community of the 1990s,...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Late last night, AOL revealed a sneak peek at their new branding campaign for their soon-to-be standalone content-focused business. The rebranding effort will officially launch on December 10th when AOL begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a separate company from Time Warner, its current owner. The new logos - yes, there are more than one - feature a lowercase "aol" on top of...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Om Malik / GigaOM: AdMob Data Reveals Android’s Growth, Device Market Share — AdMob, a mobile advertising network, which has been releasing mobile metrics for a while now and touting the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch metrics as headlines, is instead focusing on RIM, Symbian, Android and even Windows Mobile devices …
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Yesterday AOL provided us with a preview of its coming up new brand identity as the official spinout from Time Warner at December 10 comes near. Is shows a plain new text logo presented with various pictures, from a weird staring at you goldfish to a ping floating brain and a rock-star hand symbol. The new logo was created by the brand consultancy Wolff Olins. CEO Tim Armstrong told paidContent in...
BIG marketing for small business (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
GigamOM and PEER 1 Hosting are putting on an event called FutureHosting and broadcasting it live on webstream, Dec 3rd at 9:30am PST. The live panel discussion will be hosted by leading technology blogger Om Malik, and an excellent lineup that includes: Byron Sebastian, CEO, Heroku Sebastian Stadll, Founder, Scalr Jason Hoffman, CTO, Joyent Robert Miggins, SVP BizDev, PEER [...]
Inc.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Steve Case's $300 million payday . It may not be much compared to that ill-fated, monster merger he presided over several years ago--the effects of which persist today--but Steve Case just won himself another big payday. His finance company, Revolution Money, will be acquired by American Express for $300 million. That's according to Revolution Money chairman and Case confidant Ted Leonsis, who blogged...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
American Express just announced that it plans to acquire Revolution Money for $300 million. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval. Revolution Money, which was founded by AOL's co-founder Steve Case , launched in 2007. The company offers a number of services, including a payment and ATM card that offers discounts at participating retailers and the Revolution Money Exchange , which enables...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Om Malik / GigaOM: Why imeem Really Sold Out — This morning news broke that MySpace, the second-largest social network that’s currently reinventing itself as a music destination, was buying imeem, a free online music service that has been remixed (and remade) more times that ’90s dance anthem “Keep on Moving.”
Android Phone Fans (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Only a few months ago, the best way to describe Motorola’s mobile-market health was “handset division woes” – seriously… just google it. But with the launch of the Motorola Droid the company – at least on the surface – seems to be flourishing. Om Malik from GigaOM just published word from Mark McKechnie of [...]
The Local Onliner (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Outgoing CBS Interactive head Quincy Smith, in a New Teevee Live interview conducted by Om Malik, said he continues to have confidence in the future of TV, which is unlikely to suffer the same disruptive fate that many people are assuming for the music and newspaper businesses. “The future of TV is video, wherever you [...]
WOM-buzz (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
at NewTeeVee Live 2009 - Television Reinvented (11/12/2009) Om Malik chats with Quincy Smith, CEO, CBS Interactive about what's next for him after he departs at year's end. The discussion is embedded in the following two (2) clips from my channel on Justin.TV: Part I of II in TV Network 2.0 Part II of II in TV Network 2.0
Brands Create Customers (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
That was quick. Palm Pre and its WebOS operating system were launched in June, 2009 as a direct competitor to the iPhone. Six months later, declining sales have cast a pall over the brand’s future. One analyst calls it “a fading brand.” From a research note by Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar, via Om Malik’s GigaOm: As [...]
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