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"Unless they have a very unique relationship with their investors, Ello will inevitably be pushed towards profitability and an exit, even if it compromises their current values. Sometimes, this push comes subtly in the form of advice and questions in emails, phone calls, and chats over coffee. Sometimes, as more direct pressure from the board. (FreshTracks’ Managing Director sits on their board.) Or, if things go bad, by replacing the founders." which is exactly what happened
We now have an entirely new set of contexts and they come with a whole new set of tools that give us cheap and easy access to all of them – niche has gone mainstream. It is no longer necessary to organize your business or your art around geography, or storage space, or capital, or what’s cool in your town, or any other physical constraint.
Interesting insight on today's music business, and its relationship with the internet, especially youtube !
"Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to remove its news content from Google" Oh wow :o !
aka : thinnerism becomes a mostly "paid" label
"Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study."
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the Microsoft offer increased the value of Yahoo! Inc. by more than $7 billion and decreased the value of Microsoft Corporation by almost $33 billion.
"background sounds for small businesses"
...would up the combined companies' share of the all-important search advertising market to 27 percent against Google's 65 percent. It would also narrow the gap in overall online ads with Google to just 13 percent.
get to know Second Life's top earners and find out how they did it
"The company has been buying up tracts of land on the Second Life mainland and has subdivided the property up into 520 homes and living units. Half will be sold and the other half rented."