Marc Andreesen has a blog now. Read it why dontcha! He started out a little slow but hit his stride in no time at all. Yes, I’m complimenting the arguable father of the modern web. So that means I’d like to comment on several of his posts. In one [...]

Let’s start out by talking about the original web social space: Friendster. In the Summer of 2003, it was the site to be at, and arguably its success heralded the coming “Web2.0 Revolution”.
See, Friendster, for you young ‘uns, was the Grandmother of the social media space. She was the original friend network site, [...]

In the last post I lauded CBS for their cunningly clever purchase of last.fm. I think it’s an extremely wise move, and speaks volumes about the intelligence behind their Internet strategy.
Now, in the other corner, The Register UK reports on eBay’s purchase of StumbleUpon: “eBay makes another baffling buy”. Joining the Skype acquisition [...]

TechCrunch reports that last.fm has just been bought by CBS for $280 million.
The article’s comments include the usual warnings about frothiness. However, I’d say the price is cheap and rather justified considering the time, efforts, and most importantly, the breadth of what last.fm offers… it’s rather unique out there as a music-taste social network.
Personally? [...]

Jason “Not Jessica” Alba, of the JibberJobber Blog, had a post on “Work-Life Balance For Health And Sanity”. It’s a pretty standard missive on the wisdom of not working and only working.
I have to be frank, but I’ve always found the “no vacation” thing curious. Perhaps I find it as curious as the [...]