Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Based on all the hyperbole being spewed about Facebook's recently-launched Beacon program from asinine FTC complaints to political activism run amok (and that's my liberal friend Scott's point of view) one would think that Facebook's Beacon program was the spawn of the devil. I've heard creepy, nightmare, scary, invasive ...
Posted in beacon, facebook, news feed | 12 Comments »
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
My online penpal Allen Stern passes along the rumor that Fox Interactive Media is in discussions to buy the business networking behomoth LinkedIn. Bravo - I say. Linkedin would certainly offer a nice counter weight to the antics displayed within most MySpace profiles. And if identities online stay splintered (personal ...
Posted in facebook, fox interactive, linkedin, microsoft, myspace, yahoo | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Scoble and Dave Winer spent the weekend rightfully complaining about problems with Apple's latest OS - Leopard and rightfully so. From other reports - Leopard just doesn't work - it's as screwed up an update as Vista was to WinXP.
As someone who has a Macbook and runs parallels (entourage ...
Posted in apple, leopard, vista | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
To quote my friend and co-worker Scott Rafer's reaction to moveon.org's silly campaign against facebook's recently launched beacon program:
"It’s heartbreaking, but somehow successful liberal activism always jumps the shark and goes in loco parentis. Hubris sucks. Today’s tragedy is MoveOn."
I'm glad we can finally see eye-to-eye on MoveOn. And ...
Posted in moveon.org, scott rafer | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Just posted on the Lookery blog about how Facebook apps are a potential safe harbor in the sea of unpredictable UGC comment.
What's amazing as I talk to friends in the online ad space how much advertisers and media planners are scared about being affiliated with inappropriate content. Facebook apps ...
Posted in advertising, facebook, lookery | No Comments »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I had the benefit of participating in a closed door, off the record online Media Summit last week but together by Kourosh Karimkhany and Erin Hakansson from CondeNet. The event pulled together the senior media execs from Condenet , some leading VCs (including Brad Feld, Jeff Clavier and Tony Conrad) ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Sorry for the time off from blogging - I was wrapping a bunch of projects as I prepared to take on a new role - more to come on that.
And thanks for my buddy dave stern (vc at clearstone ventures) letting me know never to room with him.
Lots to talk ...
Posted in david stern, me | 3 Comments »
