Hawk Koch was named President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences today. Like his aggressive name suggests, this is a bold choice from an extremely bold organization. To have the balls to choose the old media film producer son of an old…
Today is a big day for FB:NASDAQ. The first earnings release after a pretty crappy IPO. Needless to say, earnings and guidance must destroy expectations. This is important for everyone who has a stake in the company – from those who had blind faith in…
SCREAMING BUY! YHOO is headed for $50/share. Marissa Mayer is a perfect choice. Great for Yahoo! Great for Silicon Valley. It’s a stunning move – completely shocking and unexpected. If you’re worried about her pregnancy – then shame on you. Her pregnancy makes me even…
Once upon a time, in the tiny hamlet of Menlo Park, California, there was a company called Facebook. This company was unlike any other (sorry, make that ‘like MANY others’) in that it connected people from around world through a magical and glorious technical achievement…
I actually watched last night’s “American Idol” Season 11 premiere. Yes, I’m the one. Just kidding. There were actually quite a few people who watched last night. But 23% fewer than watched last year. This show is dead. It may limp along and have…
There is an evil temptation that far too many companies are having trouble resisting – the temptation to launch a new product or service on Facebook. Every month, when the number of Facebook users seem to go up by 100 million or so – to…
I did it! So, my mom sent me a check for $50 because she wanted to buy a piece of my growing media empire. (The growing part is a yet-to-launch blog on the insane nightlife of La Canada, CA called “La Canada Nights”.) I told…
For the past week, I’ve been instructed by a few Facebook friends to update my status by cutting and pasting a sentence or phrase that reflects their outrage of the current Debt Ceiling Impasse… … or to email my Congress person… … or to Tweet…
The year is 2014. The people of the world have abandoned social networking after going out on too many creepy dates. LinkedIn, once a Wall Street darling, was acquired today by Monster.com for $37,242 – basically the value of the copper wire in the walls…
As soon as I read The Daily Beast story about Facebook’s alleged smear (whisper) campaign against Google, I immediately thought of the scene in “All The President’s Men” with all the newspaper editors sitting around deciding which stories to run the next day. When Watergate…