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The death of social networking

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 23rd 2009 | Permalink
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Kathleen Maher

Social networking has been climbing its elbow curve of popularity as Facebook reaches a much broader constituency, Twitter coalesces the attention-span challenged, and LinkedIn and Plaxo connect job hunters. There’s a world party going on for the initiated. Old friends are finding each other, new friends are strengthening their links, loves lost are found again, and all that wonderful stuff, but dark clouds are forming. For instance, New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney sent a memo to Times writers admonishing them to social network responsibly as representatives of the Great Grey Lady. His point, certainly valid enough, is that…

Carol Bartz rides in to save a bunch of Yahoos.

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 14th 2009 | Permalink
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Kathleen Maher

Wow, well this is news (or at least it was yesterday). I didn’t know what I thought about it all until I talked to a reporter this morning who forced me to take a walk down memory lane before I even had my coffee. God knows what I said to the guy that was useful. It felt like he was looking for the one sentence summation, like “she’ll fire everyone,” and somewhere in all my rambling he probably got it, but what Carol Bartz has done and what she can do at Yahoo! is very worthy of some thought and more…

The Blu ray factor: If Microsoft come out with a BD accessory, where’s Sony’s advantage?

Posted by Jon Peddie on January 8th 2009 | Permalink
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First off let me make it clear I am not a Sony basher, I like Sony, and I love the PS3. I also like Microsoft and the Xbox360. Sony has said they won’t drop the price of the PS3, and has even stopped building the lower cost smaller disk version. Why, in a world of economic turmoil would Sony seem to be swimming against the tide? For one thing Sony believes, and I agree, that the PS3 represents value for money. One of the main values of the PS3 is the Blu-ray (BD) player in it. The PS3 is a fully…