So, I already blogged about Facebook’s Platform and how it will generate new business models and economies on the web. But today brought news of Facebook’s future plans to change the face of the Internet altogether with an online operating system. Facebook, in their first corporate acquisition, bought Parakey, makers of an online [...]
How do you manage a business when the very thing that makes money for you hurts your profits at the same time? This is the dilemma that Google has been struggling with several years now, and it’s not likely to go away soon.
Imagine if you will that you are a content publisher, say, an [...]
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I'm an LA-based Internet unprofessional who has been working on the web since 1996. My current full-time gig is managing a site I founded in 2003, Answerbag.com. I sold Answerbag to InfoSearch Media in early 2006, and they then sold it to Demand Media, so they sign my paychecks now. Before that, I spent some time with Intermix Media (parent of the infamous MySpace) and Yahoo! Games, but the bulk of my 'net experience was at my first startup, Gamers.com, which I started after college back in the Golden Years of the web.
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