Archive for January, 2008

Plaxo up for sale?

Friday, January 4th, 2008

New York Times reports that plaxo is up for sale and is looking for around $100M. Plaxo is the only good player i know that does contact sync. I personally think that this is a very important space that no one has come up with a reasonably good solution. In a [...]

List of the worst internet ventures

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Found a good article that profiles the top 20 worst internet ventures.  These ventures are judged by the way they burned through venture money and ultimately went bust.  Each of these ventures got at least $100M and some even went public in the internet hay days.  Good read to see what ideas fail no matter [...]

why record companies didn’t survive the internet revolution

Friday, January 4th, 2008

everyone knows that mp3 are killing the record companies, but if you ever wondered why after all these years record companies haven’t really done anything to compete, except sue people, the reason is the people at the every top.  Wired did a profile on Universal’s CEO, and from what his stance and action on the [...]