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Web 2.0 short sellers: Arrington, Calacanis

Web 2.0 short sellers: Arrington, Calacanishttp://www.analogstereo.com/citroen_saxo_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/citroen_saxo_owners_manual.htm

Tags: Channel management, Calacanis, Arrington, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2007-06-23

Mahalo: A human-powered search directory

Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc. now part of AOL fame launched Mahalo at the D conference this afternoon, with the idea that human-generated search results for the most common queries can trump machine-generated results and not Mahalo will leave the vast majority, the long tail of queries to Google.It's the...

Tags: D5, General, Search

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Help! How do I get Jason Calacanis out of my RSS reader?

Jason Calacanis, former Editor of Silicon Alley Reporter and ex-GM of Netscape, has written the ultimate link-bait post, titled: "New Calacanis link-baiting rules", which cleverly masquerades as a guide to how to get him to link to others. And its working. How do I know? Well not only is Techmeme...

Tags: Net culture

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?

Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?Big company managementYou don't understand the nature of big organizations. The Internet is not going to change how big organizations such as Time-Warner operate. Top management will never show candor about anything, certainly not about major personnel decisions, certainly...

Tags: Transparency, Garlinghouse, Calacanis, America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-17

Calacanis quits AOL, leaving Netscape's navigators rudderless

Following the sacking of his mentor AOL CEO Jonathan Miller earlier this week, its been confirmed that Jason Calacanis has decided to quit AOL. Calacanis is quoted in the New York Times as saying: "I’m not inclined to start over with a new guy". That new guy being Randy Falco,...

Tags: Calacanis, America Online Inc., Netscape Communications Corp.

Blog posts 2006-11-17

Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?

As of the time that I started writing this blog post,its the top story on Techmeme right now. If youre reading this post to get some other insight into Jason Calacanis the man or AOL the company now that Calacanis (founder of Weblogs, Inc. which was eventually acquired by AOL)...

Tags: General, Calacanis

Blog posts 2006-11-17

Calacanis moving on

Calacanis moving onGood arcticle!Hello from Poland,This article is very good!Thanks for this article.[url=http://www.subasta.pl]Aukcje[/url]bigger and better things aheadit's for sure...

Tags: Calacanis

Discussion threads 2006-11-17

Web 2.0 short sellers: Arrington, Calacanis

Two of the most financially successful Web 2.0 personalities, Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis, are rooting for the financial failure of their competitors.Calacanis warns the newspaper industry at his blog:In another 18-24 months newspapers are gonna hit the bottom and I think I'm gonna swoop in and try and buy...

Tags: Calacanis, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-08-16

Netscape users compare new site to New Coke

Netscape users compare new site to New Cokethe new netscape.comI can't even believe how bad the new Netscape is. The "old" site was so far ahead of other similar sites, I really loved it. I wonder who the genius is behind this? It's just awful, awful.Calacanis living example of the...

Tags: Web browsers, Branding, Netscape Communications Corp., Calacanis

Discussion threads 2006-07-10

Additional Resources

It never works right when you demo Windows 7 on Japanese TV

It's always awful when you try to demo something to a large audience and then it fails miserably. I found this video on Jason Calacanis' Mahalo.com site, a snippet of a Windows 7 demonstration on a segment of "Tokudane" on Fuji TV, a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Aardvark: ask it anything, get an answer in 5 minutes [invites]

If you want an invite to Aardvark, click here. San-Francisco startup Mechanical Zoo is trying to build the ultimate interactive knowledge base. And it's kind of addicting. Once you get started, you will not want to stop. ...

Tags: Friend, Question, Aardvark, Jason Calacanis, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-07-30

News to know: Windows 7 RTM review; Microsoft-Yahoo; SAP; Sprint

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Windows 7 first look: More than just "Vista, fixed" Gallery: Windows 7 RTM...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Laporte wins TechRepublic's mock election for 'President of the Internet'

Laporte wins TechRepublic's mock election for 'President of the Internet'Of course Leo won!When I am fully immersed in the internet daily, and don't know two of the four you show as candidates, who else but the most known would win?I had to look up Molly Wood, and knew that I...

Tags: Leo, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

The Crunchies 2009

The Oscars of Tech. That's how I explain it to my mother. 7:23 p.m. Arrived just a little late, but got great seats. Sitting next to MC Hammer: 7:42 p.m. Om Malik...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Om Malik, Mobile, Amazon Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Tech economy: Is the forecast glass half-empty or half-full?

Talk about a doom-and-gloom outlook for the tech economy. Tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis  - founder of Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs, and Mahalo.com - has fired off a pretty glass-half-empty message to startups, via his e-mail subscription list. It's been about a week since Calacanis announced layoffs...

Tags: Tech, Blog, Cell Phone Penetration, Tech Topic, Blogging, E-mail, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral

Jennifer Leggio is on the road. Guest editorial by Ryan Kuder I was very publicly laid off from Yahoo! back in February. It’s a gut-wrenching experience for anyone who has gone through it. At the time, my choices were to get a new...

Tags: Dream, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Start-up, Jennifer Leggio, Ryan Kuder, VC, Angels, Networking

Blog posts 2008-10-14

How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?

Things were tough enough for startups in Silicon Valley before the credit crunch financial crisis because of extremely few exit strategies. There are almost no IPOs, and the M&A market has slowed to a trickle. The latest Wall Street crisis isn't helping. Here is a some...

Tags: Silicon Valley, IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!

Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!Why they won't!A 32" HDTV sells for approximayely $550.00 to $750.00 not the $1,700 for their monitor. The margins on this type of product are very low. Apple doesn't do low marginsDoesn't matterNobody will be able to afford it...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, iPODS, Apple Inc., Apple HDTV, HDTV, big iPod!, iPod!

Discussion threads 2008-10-12

Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!

Jason Calacanis believes that Apple is working on a networked HDTV. Why not, after all, Apple has the expertise in all the areas necessary to pull this off. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple iPod, HDTV, Apple Inc., Jason Calacanis, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?

Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and...

Tags: Network, built-In, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-11