BroadVision, an enterprise software company that went public not long after Netscape and then spent almost a decade recovering from the Web 1.0 boom and bust, is launching a new SaaS offering called Clearvale, which it says is designed to bring social networking into the enterprise. Read More »
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In a major reversal of strategy and a sign that the “freemium” model may no longer be the route to web-based riches, Ning’s new CEO says that the company is shutting down its free social networking service and will now provide only a 100-percent paid service. Read More »
Ning co-founder and CEO Gina Bianchini is leaving the company and is being replaced by current chief operating officer and former Opsware executive Jason Rosenthal. Bianchini is also becoming an executive in residence (EIR) at venture capital firm of Andreessen Horowitz. Read More »
Social networks have been copying from one another for years, but the updates that Facebook, Twitter and Ning announced yesterday took such mimicry to new heights. At this point, however, dominance of the space ultimately depends on user base size. And from that perspective, Facebook, with… Read More »
Marc Andreessen, whose first startup, Netscape Communications, introduced the consumer web to millions thanks to its Netscape browser, seems to be suitably impressed by Google’s recently released Chrome browser. He waxed eloquent about Chrome during an onstage conversation with Portfolio magazine contributing editor Kevin… Read More »
First the money flowed to social sites like Facebook that showed the world how to get users to interact. Then it moved on to “roll your own” platforms like Ning that allowed people to build their own social microsites. But as Web 2.0 startups get increasingly… Read More »
Like countless other mac addicts, I am patiently waiting for Apple to release their Tiger OS-X on April 29, 2005. Going through the publicly available information on their website, the feature that has me most excited about is the enhanced iSync feature. Thus far we… Read More »
The noise and fury around broadband over powerline has started to resemble hype around WiMAX and VoIP. However, there seems to be some serious problems with this technology, which we have often talked about. Even those who are in the business are saying that it is… Read More »
The New York Times, has a piece about the challenges facing the combined Cingular & AT&T Wireless. Nothing new, except, now that the Times has published this story, it must be important. Its really a nothing new piece. And the real good stuff is at… Read More »
