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…
First of all, I am not a television critic. I am a critic of the television industry – but not really on the content itself. That said, last week, while at a Manka Bros. corporate retreat, I actually sat and watched a full episode of…
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…
With one mighty slap, Wendi Deng Murdoch may have saved her husband’s company. No longer was the story about hacking or impropriety or ethics, it was about a wife coming to her 80-year-old husband’s defense when he was attacked. Rupert Murdoch is a hated man,…
… and Wall Street shrugged. Zynga announces a $1 billion IPO and every freakin’ investment bank in New York is clambering to get in on it. These are the very same banks that were recently slobbering all over LinkedIn and would most likely kill anyone…
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…
So, I went to TechCrunch moments ago – and was greeted by this: Maybe it’s a test to see how many ads you can stuff on one page and still make it look “classy”. They seem to be breaking their own advertising rules of ads…