It feels like it is 1999 again. WSJ reports eBay is paying $2.6 billion (more with earnouts) to buy Skype, an Internet phone company that projects revenues of $60 million this year.
UPDATE: PaidContent reports on eBay’s efforts to explain why it isn’t 1999 and the deal makes sense. It includes a 78 slide PowerPoint.
Sometimes it’s a good idea to eat one’s own dog food. Or so they say. I often complain that folks overlook the power of email as an effective tool for communications and idea-sharing. Sure, blogs are great. RSS feeds are useful. And automated emails alerting to new blog posts are simple enough to set up….
The Top 10 Reasons Why Newspapers Are Sinking Online (Marksonland) (tags: Newspapers) Splashcast: A conversation with Marshall Kirkpatrick about PR approach and lessons learned (tags: podcasting copyright ip) Combined Thomson-Reuters Would Challenge Bloomberg – New York Times (tags: research) Social network marketing to hit $2.5 billion in 2011 | 901am (tags: SocialNetworking advertising) paidContent.org: The…
TechCrunch profiles a new music matching service called Pandora. Basically, it is a recommendation engine built on the components of a song, rather than what other users decided to listen to or purchase. They apparently have human listeners who tag each song with a wealth of information about the sounds and style. Then when a…
Lately I’ve been fascinated by the consumer generated content/media space. And I’ve had a number of ideas of my own (which I may share later), but here are some interesting things going on this area now: iPodders vs. Non-iPodders ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com attempts to answer an interesting question: “So are Apple iPod users the ultimate influencers or…
This news is a month old, but it has been sitting in my "to post" file and since I’ve done a lot with success and failure in paid subscriptions lately, here’s a success story from MediaPost: THE NEWLY FORMED INTERNET DIVISION of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. acquired Scout Media Inc., a Seattle-based online sports company…
Jason Kottke makes a strong case that Technorati is heading in the wrong direction. That’s it. I’ve had it. No more Technorati. I’ve used the site for, what, a couple of years now to keep track of what people were saying about posts on kottke.org and searching blogs for keywords or current events. During that…