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_This is a revision of Amit’s Question from Tues May 8, 2007_ Every startup wants to believe that they are unique and revolutionary, it is no different in our case. We do have a business model and revenue projections but after reading several articles on startup […] Read more »

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Earlier this morning, we received the latest report from Arnie Berman, technology strategist for Cowen & Company. He asked an interesting question, which I thought would be something we all should discuss. This is what he wrote: “In the past, consumers replaced their PC’s every 3 […] Read more »

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Back in the day when ESPN launched Sports Center, it put an end to the value proposition of the sports page — wire-service box scores and game recaps. The highlights game was over, for both newspapers and the three-minute sports-guy recap at the end of the […] Read more »

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The first quarter of 2007 was one of some stunning achievements for broadband in the US. AT&T became the #1 broadband service provider, taking the top spot from Comcast, and at the same time pushing dial-up provider AOL into the third spot. Folks from the Leichtman […] Read more »

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Many of our readers have been asking us for Joost invites. While most of you are leaving your email addresses, it was difficult for us to invite each one of you individually. In an effort to streamline the process, we worked with folks from Joost, and […] Read more »

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Many of our readers have been asking us for Joost invites. While most of you are leaving your email addresses, it was difficult for us to invite each one of you individually. It was a time consuming and laborious process. In an effort to streamline the […] Read more »

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Hopefully somebody will have experience in this sort of thing and be able to offer some guidance. I’ve been running small websites for years now. I make a living doing it. The problem is the growth of these websites is severely limited by my man-hours. The […] Read more »

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Updated with Photobucket stats: MySpace is buying Photobucket reports Valleywag, even though it is not offering any details on the price MySpace is paying for the photo-hosting company. According to reports, Photobucket had hired Lehman Brothers to shop it around and was looking for $300 million. […] Read more »

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For the first time this decade Silicon Valley startups are scrambling to attract and retain skilled workers in the face of tough competition from larger, more established corporations. The larger companies pay higher salaries to managers and engineers – and offer equity that has value today […] Read more »

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Not happy with 2.5 billion page views a month, Comcast (CMCSA) is looking to enhance its position as one of the top Internet destinations in the US. And as it does so, Comcast challenges the traditional Internet names such as Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG), by […] Read more »

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Akimbo, the San Mateo, Calif.-based start-up, was one of the first to develop a new Internet video on demand box, betting that is content package service will benefit from the integrated hardware+service experience. The company is throwing in the towel, and instead focusing on making its […] Read more »

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Akimbo is discontinuing its hardware product line, and instead will focus on selling content services. Starting tomorrow, Akimbo is no longer going to sell the box, and will offer discounts and refunds to some of the existing box owners. In addition to putting its box to […] Read more »

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Forget Vudu… there are tons of non-PC devices out there that offer media swapping and P2P streaming capabilities. Some of these features are part of a commercial offering, others are the result of some good old tinkering. Some of this stuff is still in early development, […] Read more »

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Are you sick and tired of getting SMS messages from your Twitter accounts – especially at odd times of the night, like when you are sleeping? Some of us are actually quite annoyed at getting stuck with big bills because of these SMS messages. There are […] Read more »

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Nick Carr: “A select group”? “These talented people”? So much for the myth of the social collective. Dave Winer: If you don’t want your customers to find out that you mistreat customers, then don’t mistreat customers. Don’t expect them to suffer sliently. That worked in the […] Read more »

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Are you surprised that music industry executives are not really that keen on selling music without digital rights management? Thomas Hesse, president of global digital business and U.S. sales for Sony BMG at National Association of Recording Merchandisers annual convention pretty much summed up the music […] Read more »

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Natalie Portman takes the Microfinance message to MySpace. She is helping raise $200 million for Finca International, a microfinance company, reports the Financial Times. People are having weird Mozy experiences. There are issues with the back-up service. For the D.I.Y. crowd, Ian Bell has a primer […] Read more »

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So much for the Goldman Sachs’ arranged marriage of Yahoo and Microsoft. It didn’t even merit an episode on Blind Date! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the talks are well not happening. They had talked, briefly – like answering a Match.com profile with a […] Read more »

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Andy Abramson says Verizon is blocking VoIP on its FiOS fiber-to-the-home service. He apparently got a heads up from an AT&T user who said that his ActionTec router that “connects to the FIOS Coax won’t allow him to use AT&T’s CallVantage.” On the DSLReports forums, there […] Read more »

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Found+READ: Is it possible to recruit a co-founder? WebWorkerDaily: iGoogle vs Netvibes – a Web 2 showdown WebWorkerDaily: How to really benefit from social apps? NewTeeVee: American Idol is tops online as well. GigaOM Jobs: YouTube needs a Content Acquisition Associate GigaOm Jobs: Networked Insights needs […] Read more »

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_*This article launches our Founder’s Diary, where a founder retells an experience with a challenge or task ‘blow by (agonizing) blow.’*_ *The following takes place between December 6, 2006 and February 27, 2007.* It is my account of the experience, had alongside my co-founder, Walid Al […] Read more »

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The big story this morning – based on a highly speculative report in The New York Post – suggests that there could be a $50 billion deal in the making, as Microsoft makes plans to buy Yahoo. Now WSJ is reporting on the deal, saying the […] Read more »

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YouTube is going to start helping some of its indie video content creators make money, starting tomorrow. The company will launch a program that puts the creators of some of the more popular YouTube channels — including Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, HappySlip, renetto, Smosh, and valsartdiary — on […] Read more »

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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the geniuses who are keeping patent attorneys in caviar, champagne and corniches, have something to say to you: If you are using peer-to-peer networks, then you are breaking the law. In fact, they have published a study to prove […] Read more »

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Some Intel-Mac users are having Joost problems which is showing some strange error messages, reports NewTeeVee. After loading the software, many folks, including me, have not been able to log into the service. Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl in NTV comments writes, “Yes, we’re a bit […] Read more »

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Broadband can finally declare victory over dial-up in the U.S. AT&T and Comcast are #1 and #2 when it comes to how Americans connect to the Internet. AOL dial-up, which for nearly a decade dominated the Internet landscape is dying a slow lingering death. AT&T, as […] Read more »

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WebWorkerDaily: 3 Ways of getting email without spam WebWorkerDaily: The Vacation Dilemma Found+READ: What’s in a name? For a start-up everything NewTeeVee: MySpace, the tv-network for minisodes NewTeeVee: Sell your content with Cruxy Read more »

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Personal peer-to-peer (p2p) and personal file sharing services are dime a dozen. Not a day passes when some new start-up shows up with a new offering, with a slightly different twist. Wambo (previously known as Perenety), is throwing its hat in the ring, with Swapper, a […] Read more »

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Sometime last month, WSJ ran an article about Time Warner wanting to spin off their cable business (Time Warner Cable) as a separate company, and instead focus on the content part of the business. Terrible idea, and hopefully the management realized that after its own first […] Read more »

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The key to a market strategy is to balance how you will acquire users against how many resources you have at your disposal (money and time). In the case of a community site, you have two communities to attract – the users and the customers. Your […] Read more »

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Picking a name for a product or service can be a random, controversial, and sometimes never-ending process. Yet, it must be done right because your name is what users, customers, investors and even employees will first (and most) remember about your company. I’ve had a few […] Read more »

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It is hardly a surprise that the more en vogue and exotic MIX ’07 is overshadowing a strategically more important event hosted by Microsoft – the 2007 Mobile and Embedded Devices Conference also being held in Las Vegas. Given that mobiles are supposedly the platform for […] Read more »

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The Battle of the Boroughs: Queens-born Carl Ichan got in Ed Zander’s face. Brooklyn born Motorola CEO is firing back. In a letter filed with SEC he fires back, and says Moto doesn’t need Icahn. Cablevision family wants it back: The Dolans want to take Cablevision […] Read more »

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One of my favorite people in Silicon Valley is changing course. Jeff Nolan,  is leaving Teqlo, after a short stint. He left SAP Ventures to do something else at SAP and then joined Teqlo, a mash-up company. I wrote about the company and still think they […] Read more »

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Update: Digg just took their site down. Kevin Rose on the company blog gives his response: But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. […] Read more »

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Sometimes media is just that, media – be it social, user-generated, traditional, old or new. And world’s savviest media investor – Rupert Murdoch made that clear today with his unsolicited bid for Dow Jones & Company. The man who owns MySpace, wants to own The Wall […] Read more »

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Jason Calacanis, co-founder of Weblogs Inc., and now an entrepreneur-in-action at Sequoia Capital is working on a new company called, Project X. Valleywag published some details about the company earlier this week, that has the apparent backing of Mark Cuban, Jon Miller (ex-AOL) and Sequoia Capital, […] Read more »

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Updated: It won’t be for another few days before anyone can join Joost, but the company has officially announced that it is launching commercially. Starting today, existing beta testers can now invite anyone to join Joost. Beta testers visit the “Invite Friends” widget in the “My […] Read more »

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