YouTube has become the Napster of video sharing, jumping from one copyright scandal to the next.
Someone uploaded part of a video used to train flight attendants on YouTube and Google Video. The airline subpoenaed those companies on Feb. 21 under the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), according to airline spokesman Tim Wagner. Under the [...]
Web 2.0 mentions bring out fiery debate. Whether people are arguing about "the bubble", complaining about VC use or even cheerleading the Web 2.0 bandwagon, there’s not many people who don’t already have their own opinion about where the market is going.
So, is there a bubble? Dvorak seems to think so:
During the late 1990s, the [...]
NBC purchased iVillage for a whopping $600M. Of course, that’s still a few million shy of what iVillage wanted to bring, but what’s a few million dollars between friends?
NBC Universal will pay $8.50 a share to acquire 100 percent of
iVillage; that comes to about $600 million. It’s the first major
internet acquisition for NBCU in some [...]
(photo from Batelle’s blog)
Google has been riding high for some time now, and when their stock hit $400 recently, many assumed there was only room to grow there.
But, while Wall St loves you, they really, really love you, but if you miss an earnings mark, they will drop you like a hot potato.
Seems [...]
FYI, if you or your company is well-known enough to merit a wiki entry, you’d be wise to remember that your edits are public knowledge, traceable by your IP address.
The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in [...]
The rumors are that Yahoo!, consistently one of the top 3 sites on Alexa and an online powerhouse, is considering buying Digg, a very popular tech-focused social bookmarking site.
Considering that Yahoo! has recently purchased Del.icio.us, Flickr, OddPost, and other ‘happening’ social sites, it only makes sense to add Digg to the foray.
After Monday’s Technorati story, and the latest gripes, Technorati is feeling the heat of their users:
Randy: I’m asking for zero new features. All I want is the existing features to actually work. Without my results being infested with splogs. Without bogus results from months past. You know, current non-spammy results.
Bloglines as well is weathering a [...]
Yahoo! has puchased some fabulous Web 2.0 companies lately (Flickr, Del.icio.us, OddPost). Unfortunatly, earnings were a penny short of estimates and the great buys just weren’t enough to please Wall St. From the Internet Stock Blog:
More important, Yahoo’s guidance for Q2 was below the Street’s current consensus: Yahoo guided to net revenue of $1.04-1.1 [...]
Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! complained of Feedster’s poor performance on his blog yesterday.
Is it just me, or has Feedster been completely useless for over 6 months now? I have no idea if it’s related to the recent departure of Scott Rafer (former CEO) and Scott Johnson (former co-founder), but I’m amazed at how bad it [...]