Comments on: Why Ringside Networks Failed

By: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Google 2008 Review | Media News: Internet Marketing & Online Advertisng

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:04:25 +0000

[...] own blog, where Google knew what it was doing, but perhaps that was a mere conspiracy theory. But the demise of Ringside Networks despite involvement with Google is a sad [...]

By: Google Profile - Social Capital | O (b LOG N)

Google Profile - Social Capital | O (b LOG N) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:33:35 +0000

[...] Why Ringside Networks Failed [...]

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:28:16 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:46:24 +0000

WHAT?? Its not Googles fault that this guy lost his focus… Its HIS OWN FAULT…

http://the-anti-google-baloney.blogspot.com/2008/10/listen-all-of-yall-its-sabotage.html

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:04:07 +0000

@Alan

I’m glad to see people enjoyed your totally uninformed rant. Sure, we had a lull in our productivity as we pursued an acquisition that didn’t happen. But after that, we came out with entirely new pieces of the puzzle that you can see here:

http://tinyurl.com/4o65ms

and here:

http://tinyurl.com/3srlbv

Note that both of these videos feature technology that was produced immediately after the acquisition fell through (I recorded mine at 3am just before climbing on a 6am flight to SFO; that’s what I call “kicking back” alright!). Too bad they may never see the light of day…

Our team rallied together and sought venture funding at a time when it would have been far easier to give up completely. It disgusts me that our team has to read your ridiculous commentary on their work. If this were a generic list of companies that recently failed, I would react differently, but our guys don’t deserve the kind of personal attacks you are levying.

One thing you did get right is that the technology is still out there in open source. If anyone is interested in seeing exactly what we did, check out:

http://sf.net/projects/ringside

By: G

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:20:57 +0000

@Alan – you write the best comments in blogoshpere – “unvarnished observations” – and great humor to boot! Dont stop anytime soon – keep it coming -

And OM thanks for directing your readers to the Chrome post by Alan – another good one!

Cheers -

By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » End of Sept ‘08 blogging

Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » End of Sept ‘08 blogging — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:03:18 +0000

[...] Oh gosh – speaking of making money versus living off the VC tit – you mean social networks for Enter… Oh gee. [...]

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:56:13 +0000

Gee, Om, I am so flattered. You are like a celebrity to me. I met you in late 2006 at a late event for the Laughing Squid party. I was there with Havi Hoffman of Yahoo (name dropping). I was an analyst at France Telecom’s R&D lab in SSFO – but I told too much truth and spoke to loud amongst the cubicles.

The Valley wasn’t ready for an East Coast Yankee Jewboy to say, “These ideas stink – here are some vertical and technical markets that would PAY.”

They said, “Wilensky…..YOU’RE Fired”. Just like on the Jetsons.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:22:01 +0000

@Alan

Could you be more right :-) I agree with you because there is just a whole lot of nonsense out there and that is going to be weeded out.

PS. I liked this post of yours.
http://abmw.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/chrome-is-not-an-operating-system/

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:09:30 +0000

They are dropping like flies, and we are just getting started. Undifferentiated, non-useful, no upside companies sometimes founded by folks with 7 or 8 non-performers under their belt. How do they keep (how did they?) getting the cake? THey hired and kicked back, and played buddy.

Numerous vertical and technical industrial specialist Web20 app ventires where dismissed from the VC tables. Now they can come back and beg to retarget some of the no too horrible code and assetts toward these PAYING markets.

Fools.