I’ve been reading a few threads lately about the difference between the East and West Coast technology markets and I wanted to respond with some witty breakdown of the cultural differences between the two markets.
I’m not actually sure what the reference in the title is but it jumped into my head when I watched Hilary Clinton’s “I’m In” speech posted on the Hillary Clinton campaign website. The amount of incremental press gained from announcing her entry into the 2008 US Presidential Election via an online video is huge. As I am writing this [...]
Here is an easy prediction…right after the President Bush announcement about his plans for the war in Iraq, the Digg site and homepage will be flooded by bloggers trying to get on the Digg homepage with the most anti-Bush posts you have ever seen. Why is this a post for a tech or Web 2.0 [...]
Can I propose that Jeremy Shoemaker or one of these other Web 2.0 start-ups just go ahead and make the infomercial about how to strike it rich with Google Adsense? It seems that every day someone is coming out with another picture of their ”don’t you wish you could make this much money“ Adsense check?
Valleywag is reporting that Waltham based Lycos is considering shutting down old-school web know-how site WebMonkey. Whether or not this may be a publicity stunt or an idea leaked idea without real intent is yet to be seen. If it is true, this would be a sad day for anyone who learned HTML in the [...]
If you have been following the latest undercurrent to the Web 2.0 / Social Apps / User Generated content trends out there you might be able to see the tide pulling out as the Tsunami is about to hit. The Tsunami being “Social Backlash 1.0″. This just dawned on me while I was trolling my [...]
GetConnected, an ASP that provides back-end transactional services to help retailers sell digital services such as broadband, wireless, digital and high definition cable video, and satellite TV announced last week that it appointed Howard Lamb to be Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations Engineering with the objective further “strengthening GetConnected’s position as the most [...]