Wow…. Hotel Wi-Fi has to be one of the biggest rip-offs ever. At the Tel-Aviv Crowne Plaza, I signed up for a 2 Plus Wi-Fi service, which is a whopping $105 for seven days, and it is not even that reliable. Now I don’t mind paying […] Read more »
Just got off the place from San Francisco in Newark, en route to Tel-Aviv. The iFever has spread the nation and the nerds are really going wild. Scoble, Digg boys, and a whole bunch of people are blogging while waiting for their iPhone. Mike Davidson was […] Read more »
Update: Andy Abramson has more details on the story. CTO/CXO and several others are gone. Still no word from the company or their PR department. Sunrocket, one of the many VoIP service providers that has been suffering as a result of an all-out voice assault by […] Read more »
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Everyone is wondering if iPhone is going to cannibalize the iPod business. With the help of folks at ZTail, we have put together a little tool that takes the search data for iPhone and compares it with iPod’s historical pricing, which comes from Ztail (and their […] Read more »
Continuing from where I left off in my previous post, “Founding in a War Zone”:http://gigaom.com/2007/06/22/founding-in-a-war-zone/: I and my cofounder “Eran Galperin”:http://www.octabox.com/about.html had both just been sent to the Israel-Lebanon border with our Army Reserve units. It was July 2006 and our units were unexpectedly deployed as […] Read more »
Update: Looks like EDGE got the booster injection this morning. They are talking about the iPhone even on ESPN SportsCenter – which kinda tells you how big this iPhone launch is turning out to be. The two CEOs, Steve Jobs and Randall Stephenson, are of course […] Read more »
If there is any place I have wanted to visit, it has been Israel. A country so closely linked with the technology industry, and one with a bloody and violent history, and yet one of the most fascination places on the planet. I have been invited […] Read more »
Update: Readers, I checked with Walt Mossberg about the SIM card situation, and the mistake is entirely mine in misreading his report. I never said there wasn’t a SIM slot or that the iPhone couldn’t physically accept SIM cards, even those from non-AT&T carriers. That means […] Read more »
Given YouTube’s control of the snack-video market, it is no surprise that attention is shifting to long form, professionally produced content. Joost, Babelgum and scores of others are chasing this market, betting that MTV Summer Break might make compelling viewing on your PC. One company that […] Read more »
_James generously adapted this from his “original blog post_”:http://james.hotornot.com/2007/06/reinventing-hotornot-part-i.html For the first six years of its life, my startup, “HOTorNOT”:http://www.hotornot.com/, had pretty much been steady along the same course: A picture rating site with a not-so-serious dating application built on top that generated healthy amounts of […] Read more »
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The wannabe YouTube killer that fancies itself as a billion dollar company, thanks to reputation of its backers NBC and News Corp., a press conference, and lot of talk, has a new CEO. So what, if it doesn’t have a name… Still! Jason Kilar, a former […] Read more »
Sometimes you have to wonder if those who work for big organizations such as the Federal Trade Commission have any touch with reality – you know reality of real people. Nothing else can explain FTC’s latest report on broadband, which pretty much says that there is […] Read more »
5 Tips for Making the Most of an On-Site Visit: Even the most dedicated telecommuter must make occasional forays into the Real Office. Whether you go in once a week or once a quarter, making the most of your face time is critical. Here are five […] Read more »
It’s like those slasher movies… just when you think the series is over, another is hitting the multiplex. That’s exactly how I felt when I saw that Feedster is back . When comparing the old with the new, it’s quite apparent that we decided to keep […] Read more »
It was three months ago when HotorNot, a San Francisco-based people-ratings-and-dating site, decided to drop its subscription-based model, and instead opted for a free-ad supported model. So far, if eyeballs (and modest profitability) are the metrics, then the risky bet seems to be paying off for […] Read more »
The pace with which the much-ballyhooed “YouTube killer” joint venture proposed by NBC and News Corp, code-named NewCo, is moving, we might as well call it OldCo. But the company, which still doesn’t have a name, is making the rounds meeting venture capitalists, and private equity […] Read more »
The pace with which the much-ballyhooed “YouTube killer” joint venture proposed by NBC and News Corp, code-named NewCo, is moving, we might as well call it OldCo. But the company, which still doesn’t have a name, is making the rounds meeting venture capitalists, and private equity […] Read more »
In this new open web world, where the cost of rolling out services is remarkably low, and eyeballs are the currency, everyone is a frenemy. Friends of today are enemies of tomorrow. Enemies of today are tomorrow’s friends. A perfect example is the relationship between YouTube […] Read more »
Time to get rid of that landline, and say hello to Cellular-WiFi convergence. The much-talked-about dual mode T-Mobile USA wireless service, called HotSpot@Home, that uses both the cellular and WiFi networks for seamless phone calling is now available at a T-Mobile store near you. The service, […] Read more »
Online video advertising start-ups are increasingly focused on helping monetize professionally produced content, seemingly turning their back on user generated videos. What about the loads of sites paying to host their users’ uploads and looking for a way to earn a dime? Is it advertiser discomfort […] Read more »
Trust Apple to turn something as mundane as a phone plan into a marketing coup. Apple and AT&T have announced three calling plans to match with the iPhone, which is all set to launch at the end of the week. The three tier plans are $59.99 […] Read more »
I took a non-traditional outsourcing route to build the majority of my product. I say “non-traditional” because instead of hiring labor overseas, I moved my entire family to India, and then to the Middle East, to do the development myself. My 4 kids, my wife (she’s […] Read more »
_Jay originally published his piece on “Start-Up Review”:http://www.startup-review.com/blog/about, “here”:http://www.startup-review.com/blog/how-to-work-with-imperfect-timing-%e2%80%93-an-elance-example.php. We welcome this adaptation of his popular case study for Found|READ._ YouTube’s success is an example of what happens when entrepreneurs stumble on the right idea at just the right time, but I suspect that most companies […] Read more »
First Germany, now Portugal – looks like Vodafone, world’s largest mobile company is pretty serious about becoming a broadband player as well. The company has launched an ADSL 2+ service in Portugal, called Vodafone Casa Duplex ADSL. Interestingly, the company offers those who sign-up an HSDPA […] Read more »
Update: LinkedIn is heading towards an IPO, hires ex-TiVo CFO as its CFO. Different strokes for different social networking folks… while Facebook and LinkedIn are going the API route, trying to become platforms for others to build applications, Xing, a Hamburg, Germany-based business social network is […] Read more »
SageTV, an Inglewood, CA-based software company, is introducing an updated version (6.2) of its SageTV Media Center for Mac sometime today. The software turns Mac computers into a personal video recorder, and allows easy sharing of music and photos. SageTV till recently had been available only […] Read more »
Let it sing Let it die …. Maintain a little (take the cynical saint to the stake and burn it) …. Its radio radio silence silence.… Harvey Danger, Radio Silence. The Internet community is protesting the radio royalty charge increases that threatens many small webcasters by […] Read more »
I must hand it to the team at Google Finance – they are trying their best to make me switch from Yahoo Finance to their service. They keep adding new, interesting features that should make me switch. Today they announced that you can “receive stock quotes […] Read more »
The trials and tribulations of the Yahoo executive suite have been well chronicled in the media off late: from the recent exit of their sales ace to Terry Semel being replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang, as the top man on the totem pole. The management shuffle […] Read more »
* Sprint, in an attempt to create some buzz for its EVDO has come up with a viral video site, CureCD.com. Its an extended version of their SuperBowl Commercial. The site has some funny videos, but the problem with the site is that you can’t embed […] Read more »
Connected Mode: Multitasking for Productivity: Conventional wisdom from old-style journalists and not a few bloggers says that multitasking is bad. We need to firewall our attention, prevent interruptions, and work on one thing at a time. But what if this conventional wisdom doesn’t always apply in […] Read more »
Vonage, the beleaguered VoIP service provider is in court today, trying to defend its position that it doesn’t infringe on Verizon’s patents. If Vonage loses, then things get really tough for the company, which has claimed that it has developed a workaround Verizon patents, and can […] Read more »
Big rumor of the day: Google is buying GrandCentral. We checked with GrandCentral and they declined to comment. If it indeed does happen, it would be delicious irony: Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet were with DialPad, which got sold to Yahoo. So this would even the […] Read more »
Now we have written about Mobile TV quite extensively, but this quote just sums it up nicely. “Everybody thinks mobile TV is a great idea, but when it’s time to get out the chequebook everyone starts to look at each other,” Peter MacAvock, executive director of […] Read more »
A few years ago, Philippe Kahn, who headed up Borland and started a couple of other companies including LightSurf and Starfish Software said, “Synchronization between various devices needs to happen quite automatically, without complication and has to be transparent.” With the new Plaxo 3.0, Kahn’s wishes […] Read more »
So you’ve got your engineering degree, and your marquee MBA, and a business-plan. You’re on your way. But at some point you’re going to have to ‘grace’ your way through an important networking or social event. How you handle this matters–probably more than you care to […] Read more »
Looks like common sense is finally prevailing in the for-fee Wi-Fi business. Boingo Wireless, a Wi-Fi aggregator is launching a flat rate Wi-Fi plan for the entire planet, which seems like a first step in Wi-Fi price war, and that is just great, repeat great news […] Read more »
What’s Wrong With Web Work: We spend so much time talking about the benefits of our way of work that we tend to gloss over some of the drawbacks. I’ll start with some of the obvious drawbacks of web work that we don’t always mention. Continue […] Read more »
Earlier today Valleywag published a post suggesting that Microsoft paid me (and a number of other bloggers) off to recite their corporate slogan. It is a serious charge, one I take very seriously. I have been upfront about my ethics and propriety in my reporting, so […] Read more »
The recent squabble between Google and one of its biggest customers, eBay might have seemed like a catfight, but it also hinted at a new eBay strategy to shift their advertising dollars to non-Google destinations and networks. As background, the eBay-Google hostilities spilled over into press […] Read more »
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