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| Live Blog: StartupCamp Keynote [Mashable!] Posted: 04 May 2008 01:20 PM CDT
Many of the Mashable readers out there are also entrepreneurs, and are keen on starting their own business. There are a couple of things that are necessary for doing so, like networking and hearing from those that have been in the same place you are. And if you’re in the tech space, you’ve probably already heard about StartupCamp. It’s an “unconference” conference, that’s free for attendees. The keynote is being given by Jonathan Schwartz, CEO & President, Sun Microsystems, and Om Malik, founder and Editor in Chief of GigaOm. © Kristen Nicole for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to --- Sun Startup Camp SF Starts with MorningMash |
| News Corp Deal Not a Likely Alternative for Yahoo [Mashable!] Posted: 04 May 2008 12:41 PM CDT
Throughout the Microsoft-Yahoo saga, which came to a swift end last night, a deal with News Corp has often been rumored as another option for Yahoo. These rumors (which actually started last summer, long before Microsoft made its unsolicited bid) mostly involved some sort of tie-up where News Corp would trade MySpace for a significant ownership position in Yahoo. However, such discussions have "cooled" according to a report from Reuters this afternoon, and Microsoft withdrawing its offer has done nothing to change that. Other rumored alternatives, such as a deal with Time Warner/AOL have also not materialized in recent weeks. In the near-term, it looks like Yahoo will be going it alone, and dealing with whatever valuation that the public markets place on the company come tomorrow morning. © Adam Ostrow for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | 2 comments | Add to --- Report: News Corp Negotiating to Trade MySpace for Yahoo Stake |
| Posted: 04 May 2008 12:13 PM CDT Not that it applies to me any more, but everyone working for both companies should be sighing with relief that the Microsoft - Yahoo deal seems to have died. Yahoo is just too big to integrate efficiently; the combination would’ve destroyed so much of value on both sides in the post-acquisition confusion. I’m still wondering what kind of damage the unsolicited bid will do to Yahoo internally - the shock of a steep stock drop, the realization that the ‘double trigger’ layoff package isn’t going to happen, and the morale problems caused by working directly with Google might shake some more talent loose. But at least Yahoo can continue to work on its broader advertising strategy, which is largely sound. |
| Nine Inch Nails Keeps On Giving, Offers New Single For Free [Mashable!] Posted: 04 May 2008 12:00 PM CDT
As you may recall, Nine Inch Nails released a portion of their latest album, Ghosts, for free via BitTorrent. For those wishing to get the complete set, they had to go to the band’s website to purchase it, following in the footsteps of Radiohead. Later on, Mr. Reznor produced an album for Saul Williams, and they also went the Internet sales route, but he was not thrilled with the results. Now comes news via enigmax of TorrentFreak that Nine Inch Nails is at it again, and they are releasing a new single, “Echoplex”, for free via their iLike page. It also seems like something else may be brewing as the band is saying that you should stop by their official website on May 5th for a “special surprise”. No hints are given as to what this may be, but considering their penchant for giving away music lately, I would suspect it will be another single or the like for you to download. This is all mildly amusing as the band-come-Pied-Piper that started all of this “free music” on the Internet was Radiohead, and they’ve said they won’t be doing it again. You have to wonder if any of the bands that jumped on their bandwagon are now wondering where their driver went, and is the wagon heading for the cliffs without them. © Sean P. Aune for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to --- Nine Inch Nails Make $1.6 Million With Online Album Sales |
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| Breaking: Microsoft Corporation Rescinds Offer For Yahoo Inc [Mashable!] Posted: 03 May 2008 07:59 PM CDT
After months of contentious deliberation, Microsoft has effectively rescinded its offer to purchase Yahoo Inc. Microsoft's CEO Steven Ballmer officially delivered a message to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang stating that "a deal is not to be." Ballmer's indicated in his letter today, in which he explains at length the reasoning for his company's formal reversal on the buyout attempt, that a hostile effort to claim ownership of Yahoo via a drive to replace voting heads on the Yahoo board was in the end "not sensible for Microsoft" to press forward with. Ballmer confirmed widespread rumors that Microsoft had conveyed their willingness "to raise (their) offer to $33.00 per share," which would have "added approximately another $5 billion of value to (Yahoo's) shareholders." The Microsoft CEO also laid bare Yahoo's true final request of $37.00 per share, at the very least. All said, Microsoft would have had to have raised its bid by a substantial $10 billion more than it promised in its original offer of $44.6 billion. In the months following Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, made official on the eve of February 1, 2008, the value of Microsoft's offer has diminished as a result of the market decline of its own stock. It has been estimated in recently days to have lingered at a decreased value of some $41 billion. The full transcript of Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer's withdrawal of his company's offer for Yahoo follows:
© Paul Glazowski for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | 14 comments | Add to --- News Corp Deal Not a Likely Alternative for Yahoo |
| Startup Travel Network Tripwolf Launches Private Beta [200 Invites] [Mashable!] Posted: 03 May 2008 06:31 PM CDT
Tripwolf, a new travel network, has just gone private beta with the backing of the European incubator i5invest, and they are hoping all of the Mashable readers will take an interest in what they have to offer by giving us 200 invites to share with you. (Invite link at bottom of post.) The founder of the company, Sebastian Heinzel, is bringing social networking and wiki-style editing to the world of travel websites. A convenient feature to establish quick social connections with is a Facebook import option, giving you a wide selection of trusted people to share your travel experiences with relative ease. On the wiki side of things, you can edit any information on any location that you want (except for professional data, which is locked), making sure you see more than just a brochure-style info to the places you may be looking to visit.
If you’ve got a jones to go on a trip, but no clue where you want to go, the site can give you all sorts of suggestions, as well as you just letting you browse a Google Maps mashup of places they have data on already. Just click any of the icons on the map and you get a brief synopsis of the destination along with a thumbnail picture. Even in this early stage of development, the site has more than 200,000 entries for destinations and points of interest, as well as language support for both English and German. By the time the site launches for public access in June, you will purportedly be able to book all of your travel arrangements directly from the site. An iPhone application for Tripwolf use on the go is also in the pipeline. Since everything will be geo-coded as to a specified location, you can add things as you’re mobile quite spontaneously, making sure you don’t forget some wonderful, out-of-the-way spot you find during your travels. The site is slick, and looks like it could be a lot of fun to use as it develops The travel space is a crowded one to be sure, but with all of the social aspects built-in to this one, it just seems more welcoming than most of them out there. These invites for Mashable users are sure to go fast, so you best grab one while you can. © Sean P. Aune for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | 3 comments | Add to |
| YouTube Updates Inbox, Contacts Features For All Users [Mashable!] Posted: 03 May 2008 05:33 PM CDT
YouTube, who spent at least an hour today suffering a huge outage this morning, has now launched to all users some features that had only been made available to a limited number of members. Two weeks ago we mentioned that the popular video site was updating their inbox with easier features, but at the time you had to go through a few steps to get them activated. Well, today comes word via the YouTube blog that not only have the features gone official, the company made some changes based on the recommendations of the users since the selective beta release. You can now see thumbnails for videos people have sent you, and they have also restored email notifications for comments to your videos. It is nice to see that YouTube can still pay attention to the details that enhance everyone’s usability of the site. © Sean P. Aune for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | 3 comments | Add to --- YouTube on YouTube’s Updates |
| 5 Free Tools to Password-Protect Your Website [Mashable!] Posted: 03 May 2008 05:15 PM CDT
It’s rare that we would want to lock up our website with a password. However, there might be few occasions when we need to protect a few pages of our site (or whole) from the general public and made accessible to a selected group of users. For such times, here are 5 neat free tools that will help you get started. (...) © Palin Ningthoujam for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | 5 comments | Add to --- Google’s Actions and Reactions to Phishing on MySpace |
| Let’s Pretend Microsoft Buys Yahoo. What To Do About Mail? [Mashable!] Posted: 03 May 2008 04:35 PM CDT
Here's the scenario of this simulation. As the title above suggests, Microsoft has bought Yahoo. Both companies have gone through the rigamarole of regulatory inspections. They get waved through to the other side, still holding hands - probably at arm's length. What then? How to connect, merge, integrate? Really tough question. No one really knows the answer. Not even Microsoft or Yahoo, I'm willing to venture. Making magic out of potential mayhem isn’t easy. But hey, this is just for kicks, right? Right. So let's prognosticate. Taking a cue from Kara Swisher of All Things Digital, we'll focus on two respective properties of Microsoft and Yahoo: their webmail services. Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail. The two biggest whales of the industry. No other contenders come close. Yahoo has an edge, at 256 million users, to Microsoft's 255m, but they're virtually at a dead heat. They're equals, more or less. Gmail and AOL Mail trail at some 92m and 49m, respectively. Alright, so which way would Microsoft go? Which brand would it choose? Or, if folks in Redmond would feel so inclined, which would it sell off? (As Swisher says, that is a very slim possibility, calling any such move a "drastic step." Here's an idea. And before you call me crazy, I'll vouch for the fact that this may be a stretch. A major stretch. What if - just maybe - Microsoft opts to keep both properties, and maintains one as a consumer-centric entity, and the another as a central component to its long-planned Web office productivity suite for more professional clients, small, medium-sized, and even some large ones? (...) © Paul Glazowski for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | 6 comments | Add to --- AOL Mail Updates Include Increased Storage, Maps and Video Integration |
| Tom ‘Maverick’ Cruise Readies For Web Launch Monday [Mashable!] Posted: 03 May 2008 02:59 PM CDT
Ok, just for kicks, let's say you think Tom Cruise is nuts. In reality, you may think he's swell, but for the moment, you're certain he's gone intellectually AWOL. You're even a loyal reader of Tomcruiseisnuts.com, just to bring it the point home that much more. Alright, then, how big a crazy do you suppose he's willing to go? How about all the way to celestial blastoff? It's a possibility. Remote, for sure. But possible. Just today we hear, by way of Hollywood Newsroom, that the guy festoons his self-titled domain name with a great big clock counting steadily down to the break of Monday morning, and what's one to think? Between humorous jabs and seriously twisted ideas, we could really put together a whole list of maybes big and small. But we won't. Because, for one, we don't want to waste our time, or yours - at least more so than we have already. And chances are we'll be extraordinarily disappointed with the true result when zero hour arrives. And who likes disappointment? If we think a little more sensibly than a real space adventure for Mr Top Gun, the worst this launch could be is a simple domain name change for the Church of Scientology. But Cruise is presumably still very attached to his financially-padded lifestyle, so he probably wouldn't go that far. Ah, perhaps we will simply have to wait for the 5th. For the time being, we'll have to sustain our eager anticipation on some brief AdWords spots and clips of Cruise-Winfrey part deux (sans shoes on couch). To shamelessly rip a line from the Pointer Sisters, we're so excited, we just can't hide it. © Paul Glazowski for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | 6 comments | Add to --- Church of Scientology Launches Video Channel Sans Tom Cruise |
| Defunct Torrent Service vs MPAA: Case Goes Cold [Mashable!] Posted: 03 May 2008 02:05 PM CDT
Though it has yet to be officially confirmed, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) appears to have dropped their long-simmering lawsuit against the admin of the now defunct DVDr-core torrent tracker. Ben Jones of TorrentFreak gives us a historic primer on the situation between the two adversaries. The way Jones describes it, it basically looks like the MPAA just lost interest in trying to draw blood from a turnip, as it were. The domain owner in question, Alex Hanff of the UK, was served papers in March 2005 about the site he owned, DVDr-core, and which individuals other than himself administered. The site had been closed in December of 2004 by the owner due to rumors he had heard of raids in Holland against torrent sites, but it appears the opeation didn’t close down before MPAA could get the deets needed to go ahead with a lawsuit. After the suit was filed, the story at the time became fairly big news simple because of the sheer rarity of such a case, and Mr. Hanff ended up appearing on the well-known BBC news program, Newsnight. This appearance ended up costing Mr. Hanff his job - for the fact that his publicly-expressed opinions on copyright infringement did not agreeing with those of his company, and also his failure to disclose his involvement in said lawsuit. Now, more than three years have passed since the original letter. And the last communication he had ever received was in November of 2005, notifying him of a default judgment. He has never received anything official from the courts. So, he has sat and waited, and waited some more, and now essentially considers the case dead. It’s difficult to imagine what it must be like with something like this hanging over your head, unresolved for this long. Have they lost interest? Have they forgotten? Did they imagine it possible to lose, given the relative lack of education about torrent technologies in those years? © Sean P. Aune for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog, 2008. | Permalink | One comment | Add to --- TorrentSpy Closing its Doors. Is the MPAA Winning? |
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It seems that despite sales that disappointed Trent Reznor, founder of Nine Inch Nails, he hasn’t given up on the concept of sharing his music for free quite yet.
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