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Insanely Busy

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 30th, 2007

As you have probably noticed, my posting frequency has gone down. Friday was my last day at Fleishman-Hillard and I’m on to bigger and better things now. I am going to have some pretty huge announcements in the coming days but for the time being you’ll have to wait to find out. I have been [...]

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Social Media Club Tonight

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 28th, 2007

Tonight, I will be co-hosting Social Media Club with Peter Corbett. The topic of discussion tonight will be Facebook. If you are in DC and want to chat about Facebook and its impact on social media and the web in general, come stop by the event! Peter posted the event on Upcoming and you can [...]

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Are You Getting the iPhone?

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 28th, 2007

The iPhone launches tomorrow and people are going to be rushing to get their hands on one. Apparently there is a huge demand for the phone which will run $499 plus a $59.99 a month plan through AT&T Wireless. The phone is definitely a costly item. I recently decided to go ahead and buy the [...]

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Yahoo Protests Ridiculous Royalties

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 26th, 2007

As a response to the new rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board in D.C., Yahoo! has decided to turn off their online radio service, LAUNCHcast for the day. Unfortunately not all online radio stations are participating in today’s protest. I went and checked out one of the radio stations on my iTunes application and [...]

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Google to Acquire Grand Central

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 25th, 2007

According to Techcrunch Google is acquiring GrandCentral. If you don’t already know what GrandCentral is, it is a free service that allows you to use one number for all of your phone numbers. It will automatically forward calls to your any of your other phones that you specify and has value-added features. This includes a [...]

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A Domain Worth $400 Million

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 22nd, 2007

According to the Wall Street Journal the domain Business.com could fetch up to $400 million now that it is on the auction block. Two of the predicted bidders are the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.¬† Seriously … this is insane! Save yourself the $400 million and go grab Facebook for $3 billion [...]

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Traffic Court

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 21st, 2007

You may be wondering where my post from today went. Well it was never written because I had a surprise this morning when I woke up. A few months back I received a speeding ticket. While I try not to drive to recklessly, I got caught by a speed trap. Anyways, when I woke up [...]

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Myspace Worth Over $12 Billion?

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 20th, 2007

According to the Times of London, Myspace has been in talks with Yahoo! to discuss a swap of Myspace for a 25 percent stake in Yahoo! This is impeccable timing given Facebook’s recent platform release. If this is true, this would value Myspace at just over $12 billion. Is this swap likely to occur? Probably [...]

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AOL's New Product Suite

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 19th, 2007

My good friend Frank Gruber just notified me of a new suite of products that is being launched by AOL. Frank has been working hard on preparing the products for launch and has now released the above video of the unlaunched products. Some of the products include a new feed reader, customizable Ajax start page, [...]

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Terry Semel is Ousted

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 19th, 2007

This one was a long-time coming. Many had already been speculating that Terry Semel would be replaced as the CEO of Yahoo! Well yesterday it happened. Who replaced him? Jerry Yang, one of the Yahoo! co-founders. I have to be honest, I’m not quite sure that this is the right direction. Yahoo! needs a total [...]

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