Archive for July, 2007

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Why do we have Facebook Fatigue?

Om Malik, Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 4:00 PM PT Comments (86)

Facebook, one has to admit is a great time sink. Given how much you have to do to just manage your Facebook life, it is hardly a surprise; some organizations are taking a draconian approach to them. Jason Calacanis has declared Facebook bankruptcy. What is prompting such extreme reactions?
Bankruptcies often come as a result of [...]

Facebook’s Viral Hit Game: The Brains Behind the Brain Eaters

Wagner James Au, Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 11:42 PM PT Comments (11)

If you joined Facebook recently (and really, who hasn’t?) chances are your profile includes a walking corpse like the one on the left. Launched in mid-June, the Zombies game is already among the social network’s most popular widgets, boasting well over 2 million users.
It’s essentially a mini-MMORPG designed for maximum viral power: you level [...]

What If Joost Were a Web App?

Om Malik, Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:15 AM PT Comments (8)

An independent developer has built a Flash version of Joost that runs in any browser. Sure, he doesn’t have access to any of the Joost content, but what he’s built is basically a proof-of-concept using Joost graphics and improving on the UI, using publicly available video from sites like YouTube and Veoh. … We’ve [...]

How Microsoft Clubs to Search Gains

Om Malik, Friday, July 27, 2007 at 3:36 PM PT Comments (17)

Kevin Johnson, President of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division in his keynote at Microsoft’s financial analyst meeting boasted about Microsoft’s search gains and how they were going to pummel competition, including Yahoo. “We weren’t doing a great job on things like content to search, search to content. And so we are on a mission [...]

What’s On GigaNET: Friday P.M. Edition

Om Malik, Friday, July 27, 2007 at 3:23 PM PT Comments (0)

Is Clean Coal Really Clean? Doubtful, but utilities are pressing ahead. Link
Best of YouTube Presidential Reject Videos. In case you want to watch more political insanity. (Link)
Talent, Wow!-factor, Speed & Short-Cuts: 4 Tips from the TIBCO founder on How to Grow a Winning Company. (Link)
Avoiding Isolation when Working from Home. I [...]

Fichey launches, Why?

Om Malik, Friday, July 27, 2007 at 12:58 PM PT Comments (11)

Just because it is cheap to start a company, put together a Web-based product and get some attention, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is a good idea. Fichey, the new shiny thing today, is a perfect example.
It is a flash-based offering that offers up screen shots of what websites were hot on social sharing [...]

FWD relaunches to break the telco trance

Daniel Berninger, Friday, July 27, 2007 at 10:30 AM PT Comments (13)

The media educator John Culkin remarked: “We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish.” The observation summarizes why I recently pitched Jeff Pulver on relaunching FWD, the VoIP operator formerly known as Free World Dialup. (Disclosure: I am helping Pulver relaunch FWD.)
Though not as well-known as Skype or Vonage, FWD, [...]

Will Cable Strangle TiVo?

Om Malik, Friday, July 27, 2007 at 9:07 AM PT Comments (14)

Todd Spangler over at MultiChannel News has summed up the TiVo dilemma: it lives if CableCos let it live, and it dies if they don’t. And the worst part is that CableCos have little incentive to see it work, especially since they have sunk billions into their VoD infrastructure.
I certainly don’t see cable [...]

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