January 2008
3 posts
Plaxo up for sale?
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 perfect world I want a service that triple syncs pervasively (web, computer, mobile device), normalize the data to help me migrate to new...
List of the worst internet ventures
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 how much money is thrown at it and that venture capital companies sometimes aren’t as...
why record companies didn't survive the internet...
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 internet revolution it is no wonder they failed. An example, he says...
