Welcome to TNL.net. If you like this content, you may consider subscribing to the RSS feed.There is a bit of a pack mentality among bloggers. For most, one source is all that’s needed. Instead of reading about a subject from multiple source (an acquisition, for example), most people link to the same story again and [...]
The news that Google is acquiring Pyra Labs has gotten a lot of people wondering about the move.
I generally disagree with Anil’s contention that it’s not a great fit. I believe there are many areas in which Google and Pyra are complementary.
My personal suspicion is that Google is looking at sites like Daypop, Popdex, and [...]
According to an article in the Washington Post, AOL is loosing market share to Road-Runner. The interesting thing is that both companies are owned by AOL-Time-Warner but are not playing together. This represents a huge problem for the company as it is the most visible area of potential synergy between AOL and Time-Warner.
Here’s a crazy [...]
Steve Heyer, president and COO of Coca-Cola Co. presented a radically new view of the world of Marketing at the first Advertising Age’s Madison & Vine conference.
This is starting to create some controversy as I am sure it will continue to do. However, I think that the vision is fundamentally sound ( and in the [...]
With Linux becoming a strong alternative to Microsoft’s operating system, some members of the open source community are setting their sights on a new target: the music industry. The group has introduced a new sound format called Ogg Vorbis, which promises to deliver better sound quality or smaller digital music files than the popular MP3 [...]
Today, Earthweb and Internet.com announced that Internet.com was acquiring all of Earthweb’s content properties. For me, it’s an interesting announcement because I was involved in the building of both properties.
When I left Internet.com in 1996 and went to Earthweb, I was in charge of building Earthweb’s properties into something competitive with Internet.com. At the time, [...]
I’d like to suggest a few optional additions to the specification. Here are some ideas I’d like to throw around for discussion:
At the item level
: This would allow us to specify a particular date for an item. I think it would be nice for those of us who have several days’ worth of content in [...]
Over the past few months, the controversy over napster has continued to grow increasing fear among the music industry that it is becoming an endangered species. However, this issue is not about music but about movies.
Yes, L.A. is starting to feel that it has now has to open war on a second front as its [...]
It’s official: it’s curtain for Napster for now. The judge in a lawsuit filed the Recording Industry Association of America ordered the service to shut its doors by midnight this Friday.
The genie is out of the bottle
Yet, I can’t help but believe that the shutdown of Napster will not do much in terms of limiting [...]
When AOL acquired Nullsoft last year, it probably didn’t expect them to develop software that wouldn’t fit the corporate line. However, last week, all that change, with Nullsoft’s release of Gnutella. With the release of this little piece of software, AOL unwittingly became a Napster competitor. What was surprising about this was not only the [...]
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