The following is a snapshot from LinkedIn. It brought a wry smile to my face…

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 [...]

Now that’s it been some time since the WWDC keynote (and my initial post), I’ve had some time to think. Specifically one piece of information passed me by, the first time, which sheds light an interesting strategic move Apple has made.
Developers had been looking to see how they would be able to do 3rd-party [...]

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 [...]