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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is a meme going round blogosphere discussing the Age Question. The discussion seems to be centered around the concept that it is more challenging to be an entrepreneur the older you get. Michael Parekh is wondering why none of these 20-somethings that are part of the Facebook generation are commenting on the subject. I’d [...]
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Two days ago a co-worker came to me and asked me for advice on how to use Facebook as a recruiting tool. While he had already begun utilizing it, he wanted some advice on ways to more efficiently search through people. In the course of discussion he asked me how to recruit more people like [...]
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