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I’m at the BlogOn conference today and tomorrow. My takeaways so far:
From a panel with Jeff Jarvis: centralized control over brand and community identity is no longer possible. This is an interesting, scary, and empowering idea. Think about it: until recently, companies (especially large ones) could generally define and control […]
Plenty of speculation about a possible sale of AOL to Microsoft or a combination of Comcast and Google.
I think a Google-AOL deal would be difficult for several reasons. First, the two companies have very different cultures; Google focuses more on technology, while AOL is much more a media-driven company. Second, […]
A few observations from the Web 2.0 conference:
Google’s influence was almost everywhere. On the positive side, as Mary Meeker pointed out, Google has given many startups an advertising-based business model: while the company generated $1.4B in Q2 revenue, Google also paid out $494M in the same time period to thousands of partners (though […]
30gigs.com just introduced a new email service with–guess how much!–30 gigs of storage. The company also plans a virtual “file locker,” which would give customers the ability to easily store and retrieve files on servers managed by 30gigs.com. Moreover, 30gigs.com isn’t done–their “main goal” is to increase the per account storage allotment […]
Apologies to those who haven’t been able to get onto the site over the past few days. My web host had a few technical issues. Their service and technical support have generally been good, so I’m not looking to change. However, if there’s another major near-term outage, I may ask you […]
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