November 14, 2008 2:40 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
social media,
Social networking,
venture capitalAnalysts and venture capitalists (VCs) are joining forces to warn that the days of running a web business for years with no revenue are over. The latest round, generated by Gartner, is aimed at the social media players who are the latest in the net-company crowd to get funded and are still...
August 7, 2008 2:47 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Broadband,
ISP,
Online advertising,
Social networkingTime-Warner’s AOL unit saw profits fall by 26%, and has been in talks to split and sell off AOL to boost the parent company’s financials. The drop in AOL’s fortunes came not because of a shift from an access model to an ad model per se, but because of the shift to broadband...
June 26, 2008 8:33 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
IP advertising,
Online advertising,
Social networkingTwitter, the “What are you doing” less-than-texting concept, is gaining a lot of buzz, users and funding. Monetizing any social network has proved difficult, and Twitter’s simple approach makes it harder than usual to see how ads might work there, but it still raises a troubling question for...
May 15, 2008 12:20 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Comcast,
Social networkingComcast is buying social network and photo site Plaxo, and plans to integrate it into Comcast’s offerings, perhaps even creating a set-top box that could be used to “tune” to Plaxo sites and view pictures. The move is one of several recent steps taken by content and network firms to gain...
December 13, 2007 6:47 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
Networking,
Open source,
Social networkingCisco made an exploratory foray into the new media space at its C-scape conference, with a short discussion of its architecture for social and entertainment portals, EOS. This open-source framework is expected to be available to developers in 2008. There were no real details of Cisco's plans here,...
