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MySpace is Dead - The Internet Is Growing Up
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 24, 2009 10:49 AM / 55 Comments
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Posters on the wall, teen magazines, boom boxes playing the same stupid songs over and over again (automatically!) - that's not a sustainable situation, by definition. That's teenage living and Continue reading »


GeoCities Closure Signals End of an Era - Will Others Survive on Freemium Model?
Written by Richard MacManus / April 23, 2009 1:34 PM / 19 Comments
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Yahoo has announced that its website creation service GeoCities, which it acquired for $4.5 billion in 1999, will close later this year. Existing customers are being encouraged to "upgrade" to Continue reading »


A Better Calling Card: Twitter Challenges Facebook Connect
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 17, 2009 3:37 PM / 27 Comments
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In the old days, self-important people use to carry calling cards. Now we have Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites to turn us all into mini-celebrities. So what's the Continue reading »


The Future of Social Media Monitoring
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 15, 2009 11:56 AM / 32 Comments
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Ten years ago the ClueTrain manifesto said that "markets are conversations" but today a more pertinent statement could be that conversations are becoming markets - or that there's a market Continue reading »


How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who's Buying
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 10, 2009 8:29 PM / 127 Comments
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What are you doing? No what are you doing Apple, Skype, Flip, StubHub and Box.net?? These popular companies just couldn't resist paying off Twitter users to put advertisements into their Continue reading »


Cross Your Fingers: Zennstrom and Friis Might Buy Back Skype From eBay
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 10, 2009 4:53 PM / 11 Comments
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Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, are trying to pile up enough cash from investors and their own bank accounts to buy the company back from eBay, Continue reading »


Is Facebook a Cult?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 8, 2009 5:14 PM / 37 Comments
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Facebook announced that it hit 200 million users today and Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg made a blog post describing some of the data mining that the company is doing Continue reading »


This Machine Eats Tweets: The System Behind @Comcast and Others
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 7, 2009 4:40 PM / 31 Comments
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This morning my home wifi was having trouble and I posted a message to Twitter saying, "My wife has decided to start the day with a call to Comcast customer Continue reading »


Android Isn't a Phone OS Because in the Future There Will Be No Phones
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 6, 2009 11:17 AM / 17 Comments
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T-Mobile is working on plans to build several devices that run Google's Android operating system but can't really be considered phones, according to internal documents secured by the New York Continue reading »


How Would You Feel About Google Buying Twitter?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 3, 2009 1:33 AM / 46 Comments
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The topic of the night here in the US is a rumored deal in the works between Google and Twitter. Michael Arrington reported tonight that acquisition talks are in late Continue reading »


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