June 2008
3 posts
Pining for the Triplecast, but glad for online...
When I saw that various blogs have quoted John Malone as predicting that NBC’s plan to stream thousands of hours of live and recorded video during the Olympics this summer will fail, I took note, since ths subject was at the intersection of my industry (the consumer internet) and one of my top passions (the Olympics; one of my dearest friends noted long ago that my “Olympics fetish has...
Yahoo and Microsoft
I’m a big fan of Fred Wilson’s blog A VC, but I can’t agree with his latest post, where he says about the announcement that any Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition possibilities are finally and totally dead:
Now Yahoo! will do what it needs to do. Clean house, get lean, get out of businesses it shouldn’t be in. Focus on what it’s good at. And start making money and growing again.
They...
eBay's ad marketplace
eBay’s closing of a marketplace for TV and radio ads has been reported pretty widely in the last day or so. First, let me be clear: though I’m an eBay employee, I wasn’t involved with this initiative, and I don’t have any real inside information about it, so my opinions are basically those of an outsider.
Reading some of the reports, however - and this one in particular -...