From Holler.com Walking home from the fourth annual f8 conference earlier this week I kept wondering why I hadn’t gone over to the massive Sean Parker/Spotify after party. Over the past few years, Facebook’s f8 after party was an opportunity to schmooze with people of all levels within the company. This year however, the “A-List” [...]
TechCrunch
How Facebook Divided the Web
Adam Rifkin at TechCrunch has a great post on how Facebook has divided the internet. Reliability issues aside, there’s a deeper principle at stake here. Facebook has divided the Web into two: the Web with Facebook (your friends), and the Web without Facebook (people cooler than your friends). Our friends are who we are interested [...]
Angelgate
Michael Arrington’s blog post leads to a FBI investigation into price fixing and collusion among angel investors. I have a lot of respect for Arrington for doing this, taking a stand against friends is never easy but he’s right, what those angel investors was doing (if true), was wrong and I would be enraged (although [...]
Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”
Mark Andreesen was in New York yesterday and sat down with TechCrunch Andreessen once famously put the New York Times on deathwatch for its stubborn insistence on trying to save and prolong its legacy print business. With all the recent excitement in media quarters recently over Apple’s upcoming iPad and other tablet computers, and their [...]
