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Is Facebook AOL 2.0?

December 6, 2010

in Marketing,Media,Technology

I’m by no means alone in my perception that Facebook’s mission is to become the Internet. I’m a proponent of open standards, open software, open platforms and an open internet, the past several months have made me feel that the online world is coalescing around two internets – Facebook’s version of the internet and THE [...]

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Aol. – do we care at this point

December 7, 2009

in Marketing,Media,Technology

Aol. starts life as a new public company this Wednesday. Not as the once all conquering AOL, but as the newly re-branded, seemingly apologetic Aol. As it departs from the Time Warner stable, I can imagine the TW sentiment is somewhere on the harsh side of “good riddance to bad rubbish”. It would be impossible [...]

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The iLike sale

August 19, 2009

in Media,Technology

iLike’s sale to MySpace, announced earlier this week merits comments on a couple of points. First, it’s fire sale time. At roughly $20 million, this represents a new low for music-based valuations. In halcyon days, we had seen the prices climb. From Real’s $36 million acquisition of Listen.com in 2003, to Yahoo’s 2004 $160 million [...]

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