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March 23, 2007

Sun Microsystems' Media Summit... Growth @ Sun

I'm here this morning in Palo Alto's Four Seasons for Sun's Media Summit where CEO Jonathan Schwartz and the company's top executives/CxOs are presenting to a small group of 20 or so international journalists a new tag line "Growth @...

March 21, 2007

How Yahoo Blew It

At the Kelsey conference in Santa Clara, I had a discussion this week with an executive in the advertising business that had this interesting comment about how secretive Google was, and still is today, and that I found sort of...

Adobe expects minimal impact of SaaS on desktop business

Yesterday afternoon I chat with Shantanu, Adobe's president and COO, after the company released its first quarter earnings. In our conversation, I was particularly interested in how Saas or software as a service might impact Adobe's business long term,...

March 20, 2007

Awareness: Internet sucks, TV still rules, says hyperlocal Spot Runner CEO

At the Kelsey conference focused on local search and local online commerce, the attendees had a chance to discover, an Internet-based ad agency launched last year and that makes it easy and affordable (less than $500) for businesses (small or...

March 19, 2007

Napster was for pirates says BitTorrent

Again during a discussion at the New Video Summit today, Bram Cohen of BitTorrent had some harsh words on the old Napster, which he describes as a system that was built from the ground up to promote piracy. On the...

BitTorrent to Joost: channels are so last century

Today, at the New Video Summit hosted at the VON show in San Jose, Bram Cohen, CEO and co-founder of BitTorrent was very much critical on Joost's business model. This upcoming start-up that wants to bring TV to the Web...