Posted by Chris OBrien on October 30th, 2008 at 12:11 pm | Categorized as Future of Media, Social Media | Tagged as adsense, Google, Ning
When Google reported its earnings a couple of weeks ago, a lot of people who didn’t pay close attention hailed the results as a sign that the company had truly created a transcendent business model. I even heard people invoke the term “New Economy.” Funny, because when I start hearing that term, I figure trouble lies ahead.
In fact, if you parsed what Google said in its results, a lot of its profit increase came from cost savings and paring back its torrid hiring pace. Hardly the stuff of a “new economy.”
But I’m wondering now if there’s even more trouble brewing based on an email I received today about AdSense.
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Posted by Jack Davis on September 30th, 2008 at 5:29 pm | Categorized as Governance, Ning, eBay | Tagged as eBay, Governance, Marc Andreessen, Ning
EBay said Tuesday that Marc Andreessen has joined its board. Andreesen, who was a co-founder and a principal architect of Netscape Communications and later served as chief technology officer of America Online, which acquired the pioneering browser firm in 1998.
Andreessen also founded Opsware, formerly known as LoudCloud, a provider of data-center automation software that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007. His most recent endeavor is as co-founder of Ning Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris OBrien on June 11th, 2008 at 11:45 am | Categorized as Social Media | Tagged as facebook, Ning, padora, plurk, pownce
In my column that ran Wednesday in the Mercury News, I discussed my growing fatigue with trying to keep up with all the social networking services and tools. I mentioned a few that I’ve tried, and a couple I use. But I thought I’d post a more extensive list here: Read the rest of this entry »
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