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…
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…
OK – so the U.S. got downgraded by S&P (AA+) for the first time in its history. Whatever. It’s all just a game anyway. Most talking heads throughout the weekend will say Monday will be a bloodbath on Wall Street and that many investors will…
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…
Today, I read an analyst report written by Vasily Karasyov of Susquehanna Financial Group titled “The Death of Superheroes”. Salacious title? Certainly. A title that would get the attention of every media executive around the world? Absolutely. A title that’s total bullshit? Definitely. According to…
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…
For Broadcast Networks, the end is coming and it’s time for them to Accept their fate. (The 2012 Emmy Nominations only strengthen this point.) This isn’t to say ABC, CBS, FOX, MBS, NBC, Univision and The CW (and similar Broadcast Networks around the world) are…
UPDATE: The original CBS Films R.I.P. post below was written on January 25, 2010, right after “Extraordinary Measures” starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser flopped. The latest CBS Films release to flop is “Beastly” starring actors who didn’t get cast in “Twilight”. This modern take…