I’ve been building something really dumb Simple-stupid, kind of fun, seductive but with a little hint of guilt to go with it. Sound familiar? Anyway as part of it I’ve been looking at search APIs. And boy, do they suck. I’m gonna write a little more about that, but one initial impression – these API [...]
Entries Tagged as 'web 2.0'
The sorry state of Search APIs – initial impression
February 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Entrepreneurship · web 2.0
Revver meets the shakeout
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Revver’s asking price is between $300,000 and $500,000, as well as the assumption of the company’s debt, which is in the $1 million range, said two sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
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Two A-Listers
February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Chime in to echo what I said so succinctly after the MS-Yahoo announcement. Ok, they add some depth…
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Another thought on the MS Yahoo offer
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Oh god no – they’ll own flickr! Time to look into zooomr more closely.
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Microsoft bids $45 billion for Yahoo
February 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
In case you haven’t heard, the usual pundits are up early on the west coast blathering on about the big news. Just to throw in my 2 cents, this has got to be very bad news for the Web 2.0 ecosystem, as two potential acquirers just disappeared (I’d guess it will take a year or [...]
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Sarah Lacey’s Book
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments
is in the PR phase. I was thinking that “birth, growth and death” is a much more felicitous phrase than what she uses there. Since the book is still four months away and the US economy is a complete mess, it seems likely she’ll be doing some late night rewrites in the next few months.
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