Om Malik, Founder and Senior Writer. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. For more info on Om, see the Om Malik extended bio.
Shutdown: Mygazines, a web site that allowed folks to share digital copies of magazines, has shut down. It was sued by magazine publishers and later settled. It was a bad idea to begin with, no surprise it is gone. (Folio)
Shutdown: Skyrider, a P2P software company, has apparently shuttered its doors after treading water for a very long time. (NewTeeVee)
Restructured: Tesla chairman and investor Elon Musk has taken over as CEO of the company, is cutting staff and scaling back ambitious plans. (Earth2Tech)
Restructured: Twitter has swapped the roles of its CEO and chairman — Ev Williams is the new CEO, and Jack Dorsey is the chairman. No layoffs. (Twitter Blog)
Google spent just $452 million on equipment for its data centers, networks and other infrastructure in the third quarter, the lowest level since the first quarter of 2006, when Google spent $345 million. Continue »
Anthony Zuiker, creator and executive producer of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (and the producer of all “CSI” franchise shows), is going to deliver a keynote speech at our NewTeeVee Live conference that will be held in San Francisco on Nov. 13.
He will join Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, and Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, as keynote speakers for the conference, which will explore the importance of professional content as one of its major themes. Zuiker, as part of his talk, is going to discuss how the emergence of new platforms such as mobile and the Internet are changing the art of storytelling. He calls it cross-platform storytelling.
When I spoke with Zuiker earlier this week, he said he was working on games, digital books and video to create new kinds of entertainment experiences. He predicts that the future of content involves giving the user control, a sense of ownership over it.
Google today announced its third quarter 2008 earnings - which were in-line with investor expectations, thus giving market a reason to exhale. For the quarter, Google reported net income of $1.35 billion on sales of $5.54 billion. Google partners however, should gulp hard, for the Mountain View, Calif.-based search and online advertising company is keeping more and more of its online ad bounty for itself. Continue »
It’s here: the Google Phone. After years of speculation and months of waiting, the first Google Android OS-based smartphone has finally been released by T-Mobile USA. Here are my major takeaways. Continue »
With competition from a resurgent Research in Motion’s Blackberry Platform, Apple’s iPhone and most importantly, the Google Phone platform, Microsoft’s mobile platform is facing its toughest test yet. Here is why.Continue »
FanSnap, a Palo Alto-based vertical search engine for live event tickets will launch in beta tomorrow. The company is funded by General Atlantic Partners and has raised undisclosed millions. Continue »
Host Sarah Lacy talked to me about Gartner’s tech spending forecast, the slowing ad market and, well, the world at large. I am taking a very cautious stance on the technology business for the immediate future, even though I still believe that technology and innovation are the best way forward for the U.S. economy. Regardless, watching the clip made me realize that I need a haircut, some sleep and to learn how to stop waving my hands so much.
Check out the four part interview: part 1, 2, 3, 4
What a busy Monday morning it has been for our team of writers and contributors. I culled some of the best bits from our team for you, and I am betting you are going to like them all.
jkOnTheRun reminds us that today is the 25th anniversary of the first commercial cellular phone call. It is only appropriate that in countries like Japan, mobile call minutes exceed fixed line calls.
Katie writes about Wattbot, a new e-commerce website that connects providers of clean tech products and services with consumers who want to tap into clean power for their homes. Lead generation for cleantech! (Full story @ Earth2Tech.)
TheAppleBlog tells you how to use one iTunes library with multiple computers. I have been looking for this guide forever, because I have way too many computers. (Full story @ TheAppleBlog.)
NBC is looking to launch Saturday Night Live as a standalone web site, which will feature not only clips from shows but also other stuff that gets left on the cutting room floor. I am totally on board with this idea. NBC, just do it! (Full story @ NewTeeVee)
Earlier this year, when Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, I wrote a post explaining why no one was going to replace Bill and Steve (Jobs) as leaders of the technology. The only person I thought was within striking distance of being the likely replacement was Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon (AMZN).
“Our willingness to be misunderstood, our long-term orientation and our willingness to repeatedly fail are the three parts of our culture that make doing this kind of thing possible”
…I realized that Amazon would keep pushing the envelope and coming up with interesting ideas and that should make Bezos a lock for the inheritor to Bill and Steve’s crown. His company’s “willingness to repeatedly fail” and focus on the long term is what makes him and Amazon different from others.
Om Malik, Founder and Senior Writer. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering 
Shutdown: Mygazines, a web site that allowed folks to share digital copies of magazines, has shut down. It was sued by magazine publishers and later settled. It was a bad idea to begin with, no surprise it is gone. (Folio)
