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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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2005 Predictions: Keeping the Score
So it’s that time of the year. As is the case every year, I’m reviewing the predictions I made last year and looking at the score. Voice Over IP The big surprise here was the acquisition game. When I made the predictions last year, i thought that the acquirers would be larger telcos. However, companies like Ebay [...]
Tags: MP3, Motorola, Telephony, United States, VOIP, Yahoo, content management, eBay
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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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Why Scale Matters
Jeff Jarvis says that scale doesn’t scale. Fred Wilson follows up by talking about the new scale. While I agree that new markets can be born out of aggregation, I disagree with the concept of scale not scaling. The problem is one of, well, scale. Let’s say that I want to make a movie that will [...]
Tags: Computing, United States, VOIP
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2005 Predictions
Another year, another round of predictions. As is now becoming customary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those predictions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP experienced tremendous growth in 2004 but it was just the beginning. This year, much more will happen in that space. Cable [...]
Tags: Broadband, Cable TV, Europe, IBM, Linux, MP3, Media, Microsoft, Music, Oracle, United States, VOIP, Wireless, XML, content management, open source
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2004 predictions: Recap
With the end of the year upon us, it’s time to do a quick sanity check on how well I did on last year’s predictions. Apple Scored well on the introduction of the Apple mini, which represents Apple’s entry into the lower end market. However, no video iPod this year, only a photo one, leaving Apple far, [...]
Tags: AOL, AT&T, Google, Internet, Music, Social Networks, VOIP, Wi-Fi, eBay
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