This is a continuation of a post from 2009-02-10. While the post-IPO price of Google shares was still inflating the company engaged in a dot com buying spree perhaps only previously rivaled by giants like Yahoo! and IAC. They shopped for small groups serving this niche and consolidating Google’s control in this proto-industry before anyContinue reading “RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II”
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25 Random Things About Shakespeare
I just found this on Boing Boing. I rarely actually laugh out loud from things I find on the world wide internet, and they are usually Flash files, audio files, or some combination thereof. What we have here is written humor of the highest quality. If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably seen some of yourContinue reading “25 Random Things About Shakespeare”
Last.fm
I’ve spent the better part of my online weekend integrating a number of online services with one another. I’ve unintentionally saved the best for last (again, that’s not me trying to be witty). Among the various web 2.0 service built-in integrations facebook now offers is last.fm. I’ve apparently signed up for this service in anContinue reading “Last.fm”
Monday News
The operating system for the new Palm Pre, WebOS, is supposed to offer some killer apps. Apart from its wireless charging capabilities is some really intuitive functionality. Supposedly, the new device will use the calendar, which will contain the location, time, and attendees of meetings, and couple all that with your GPS location, to calculateContinue reading “Monday News”
Yahoo! Should! Sell! Flickr! To! Facebook!
Let me be the first to say that – in an otherwise cash-strapped startup world – new Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz’ first stroke of genius should be to offer up Flickr to Facebook. It’s also, by the transitive property of social-networking, a good way to get a little M$ cash into Y!.
QuantumTom 