Archives for the "AOL" tag
Future Tense – Intro
With TNL.net down for most of the last month, I’ve been lax in creating new entries. However, being away gave me some perspective and I think that the forest is now becoming clearer. In this entry, I reflect on trends that will affect us over the next decade. Core Components One of my favorite quotes about the [...]
Tags: AOL, Google, SMS, instant messaging, web server
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Googling Netscape
The Google stock is getting hurt in after hours trading as the company’s earnings disappointed Wall Street. It was to be expected but now is the time for executives at Google to look at history and, hopefully, not repeat it. The history I am talking about, in particular, is that of a company that was [...]
Tags: AOL, API, Google, Internet Explorer, Java, Microsoft, Search, Wall Street, Yahoo
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Portals and Video – An Overview
So the big news coming out of the 2006 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is that all the portals are now trying to go into the video space. Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo have already made their announcements (as has Apple, which is not presenting at CES and is reserving its sparks for next week’s Mac World) [...]
Tags: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Wireless, Yahoo
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2006 Predictions
Since 1997, It’s been a long running game here at TNL.net central to make wild predictions about the upcoming year that have turned out to be only somewhat off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this [...]
Tags: 3G, AOL, Advertising, Blogging, Broadband, Europe, Google, Media, Microsoft, Social Networks, Sony, United States, VOIP, Video, Wireless, Yahoo
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Reading the Google Tea Leaves
Every time Google comes out with a new product, many people talk about how great it is and highlight the product as a category killer. However, it increasingly appears to me that Google is filling up holes in their offering, in an attempt to match its competitors. Based on that assumption, I started wondering if [...]
Tags: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo
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Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal
AOL bought Weblogs inc., the two year old weblog network founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey, for a number that is rumored to be anywhere between $25 million and $40 million. In this process, Time Warner may be providing some ideas as to the valuation of blogs by traditional media. The power of the network [...]
Tags: AOL, Google, Media, Microsoft, Time-Warner, VOIP, Video, Yahoo
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