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Andreessen joins eBay board

eBay said that Marc Andreessen will join the online auctioneer's board of directors. The move, which is effectively immediately, brings some additional brainpower to eBay, which is trying to fend off rivals such as Amazon and Google. For instance, Amazon's fixed price model has been attracting merchants...

Tags: Marc Andreessen, Board, Ning, eBay Inc., Corporate Governance, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Churchill Club podcast: A Second Strike of Light-Ning? Marc Andreessen speaks

Churchill Club podcast: A Second Strike of Light-Ning? Marc Andreessen speaksMissing LinkThere is no download link in the article and no enclosure in the RSS entry. I was able to figure it out via view source, but...John

Tags: Podcasts, Light-Ning, Churchill Club, Marc Andreessen, podcast

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Churchill Club podcast: A Second Strike of Light-Ning? Marc Andreessen speaks

Marc Andreessen is famous for giving birth to the Web browser - in the 1990s. He'd like to be famous for some newer stuff, too - like Ning, which is getting attention as one of the more interesting ideas in social networking. (It helped 50 Cent to build his fan...

Tags: Marc Andreessen, Social Networking, Podcasts, Corporate Governance, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Marc Andreessen connects to Facebook team

Facebook confirmed today that Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Ning and perhaps best known for his co-founding Netscape, has joined the social network's board of directors. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Facebook, Team, Marc Andreessen, Ning, Corporate Governance, Team Management, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-06-30

The week in video: Web 2.0 economy, Marc Andreessen; Yahoo; Live Mesh

Here's a look at Web 2.0 Expo's greatest hits. Is the Web 2.0 economy in limbo? Marc Andreessen talks past and present Yahoo CTO talks up Open Strategy ...

Tags: Web, Marc Andreessen, Yahoo! Inc., Video, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Marc Andreessen, past and present

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Andreessen talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Google’s OpenSocial.

Tags: Marc Andreessen, Ning, OpenSocial, Facebook, Browser, Google, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Expo

Videos 2008-04-24

Enterprise SaaS and the cloud

ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Salesforce.com ascends to the cloud

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff opened his "Tour de Force" presentation in San Francisco touting the prowess of the Force.com platform and his company--1 million subscribers, on track for more than $1 billion in its fiscal year (starting Feb. 1), 24 billion API calls to date, 130 million transactions daily, 210...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Platform, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Is Facebook the next Netscape?

Marc Andreessen's Ning team has put together a screencast and screenshots of OpenSocial in action. He notes that the examples are a little light on social functionality at this point, but they are working on getting user's friends information and activities feeds into the applications. For...

Tags: Facebook, Marc Andreessen, Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-01

The Facebook Platform according to Marc Andreessen

The Facebook Platform according to Marc AndreessenMarc isn't the only oneMarc Andreeson isn't the only one to recognize the power of Facebook. Check out what Rupert Murdoch said: http://www.mathoda.com/archives/165

Tags: Facebook, Marc Andreessen, Marc

Discussion threads 2007-06-12

The Facebook Platform according to Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen discovered blogging recently and is becoming a blogging sensation faster than he became the poster child for Web 1.0 with Netscape. In his most recent blog, Andreessen analyzes the Facebook phenomenon, looking at the pros and cons of the new platform, with some comparison to the social networking...

Tags: Web Technology, Social networking

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Marc Andreessen's cheat sheets

Here's a last minute project for your programming, IT, and web design classes: pick Marc Andreessen's brain. The founder of Netscape and one of the original authors of the Mozilla browser has his own blog of course and just released a list of his favorite websites for quickly and...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Netscape founder stumps for Sun

Marc Andreessen also talks about community buildingCompany President Jonathan Schwartz introduced Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Ning, at Sun's analyst conference. Andreessen plugged Sun's server products, but also asked members of Ning, a community-building site, to stay out of the office.

Tags: Ning, Sun Microsystems Inc., Marc Andreessen

Videos 2006-02-02

Photo: Andreessen looks forward

Marc Andreessen tells his audience that PHP is picking up where Java is leaving off.

Tags: Marc Andreessen, PHP, Java, photograph

Image galleries 2005-10-19

Photo: Andreessen looks forward

Marc Andreessen tells his audience that PHP is picking up where Java is leaving off.

Tags: Marc Andreessen, PHP, Java, photograph

Image galleries 2005-10-19

Additional Resources

Andreessen joins eBay board

Andreessen joins eBay boardBrainpower?eBay needs more than "Brainpower", they need to get rid of the Donna Ho, get some REAL management, and get the company back on track. eBay has been systematically destroying itself from within since January 29th of this year. Sellers are fleeing in record numbers, fees keep...

Tags: Corporate governance, eBay Inc., eBay board, board

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

AT&T layoffs, Step 1: Reorganization

AT&T's move to reorganize itself into four business units is likely a precursor to layoffs, according to sources of GigaOM's Stacey Higginbotham. AT&T's reorganization comes as the company tries to adjust to our current credit-crunching economic situation, diminishing access line and DSL business and an increased amount...

Tags: Layoff, AT&T Corp., Workforce, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-02

News to know: Economy watch; Google trades; RealDVD; Apple's showdown; Pandora

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Reuters: Senate agrees to vote on bailout, stocks rally Michael Krigsman: Economic meltdown: The insanity of disagreement Larry Dignan: Analyst: Intel will weather the storm ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Apple Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?

The economic downturn will see an increase in demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations. The economic downturn will see an increase in demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations. According to analyst...

Tags: Job, Economic Downturn, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, IT, employment, Forrester, skills, Tim Ferguson, silicon.com

News items 2008-09-29

Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals

Forrester's Marc Cecere has just published a report in which he observes that any downturn in the economy will increase "demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations." As reported in Silicon.com, Cecere predicts that "as organizations look at reducing costs through...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-09-29