Weekends… what are they good for? Two things - catching up on RSS reading and answering emails - which just seem to pile up during the week, especially in weeks when we are all busy with conferences. And it is also the time to take stock of all bits and pieces of news and information one has been able to gather.
And nothing helps with clearing your inbox like a nice fresh cup of tea. This week’s tea is Assam Golden Tips I picked up earlier this weekend from Lupica Tea in San Francisco. If you are a tea-nerd, this is the where you go to buy loose leaf tea, which by the way is the only civilized way to drink tea.
Anywhere CD Spins Down: Michael Robertson, the constant entrepreneur is going to shut down his latest project, AnywhereCD sometime this week. The idea to offer physical CDs and their digital downloads for one flat price didn’t catch on. Blame it on lack of a big library, or consumer apathy to full albums or just simple Apple domination, the party didn’t even get started for this company. The good news - this going out of business sale means for a week you can buy CDs for $7.
Ning 100,000: Ning, a company that I have written about in the past has hit the 100,000 social network mark. That works out to about 370 new networks a day, since I last wrote about them on July 9, when they had about 71,000 networks. With their recent $44 million financing, the company has enough cash to scale their infrastructure to support future growth. [Disclosure: We use Ning for our NewTeeVee Screenings community including the page we have set up for the first New York event.]
GMail Redux: Google seems to be working on a new version of GMail. Two words about what I want: IMAP Support!
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Honorable mentions: Cubic Telecom & gh.o.st (Demo Pit.)
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7 comments so far
8:32 AM PT
I created a bunch of ning networks and none are being used so this number is not accurate.
11:45 AM PT
Re - Gmail Redux — does that mean they will finally come out of Beta?? WOW.
I wonder if I could get away for 4 years with calling my service a Beta Service :-)….
12:57 PM PT
New Version of Gmail on the Horizon?
Sunday’s are sometimes my favorite day of the week. I can start my day knowing that I don’t have to be anywhere, giving me plenty of time to enjoy my coffee, feeds and email. Of course, now that the New York Times has taken down their ̶…
1:31 PM PT
I just hope they add IMAP. I be happy with that. really not being very demanding here.
1:57 PM PT
Mmm. IMAP gmail.
If they do that and open up the hosted domains program they have in some kind of beta/trial, then I’d switch. in a heartbeat. I’m using Zimbra and mostly happy with it, but I certainly don’t need to spend the money.
2:59 PM PT
What is the significance of user created social network within Ning? I feel that these networks are isomorphic to groups within Facebook. Ning could generate the same amount of traffic (hence the revenue) if there are no “subnetworks” but heavy user participation.
4:37 AM PT
[...] interest in renewing any kind of deal with Robertson — so it should come as no surprise that AnywhereCD is shutting down. It certainly looks like the controversial marketing strategy failed in this case. Previously, the [...]
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