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Give Me Lunch Or Give Me Death

by Jason Wilk on December 22, 2008

  • Fox Interactive chief Peter Levinsohn says that 2009 will be an “even rockier economic climate” and the company is taking steps to cut costs at each of their properties. Number one thing to go is part-time/contracted staff as well as FREE lunches. Don’t they know that lunch is where co-workers share ideas the most? Google would go under before taking away their employee cafes.

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Facebook Spammer Awarded The Death Penalty

by Jason Wilk on November 24, 2008

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  • On Friday, Facebook was awarded $873 million in damages against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital under the CAN-SPAM act for mass-spamming the Facebook ecosystem.
  • Facebook most likely will never see most of this money, so the judge placed further restrictrions on the culprates. The judge has issued a permanent injunction against “using or accessing, whether directly or indirectly, Facebook’s data, information, computers, computer systems, computer networks, or Facebook user’s accounts, information or profiles for any reason whatsoever.”
  • The injunction is a joke. I guarantee the spamming was resulting in a low to nothing conversion rate on whatever credit scam they were running at Atlantis Capital. The judge should have placed an injunction against all forms of online advertising for one year. That includes AdWords, Email blasts, Facebook ads, MySpace ads, etc. Spam should not be taken lightly in this day and age. We really just need one spammer to get the death penalty. What’s a little capital punishment to save the world? I’m kidding, but when does the spam stop?

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AT&T Opens Wi-Fi To iPhone Users

by glu on October 29, 2008

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  • AT&T, aka the artist formerly known as the death star, will announce today free access across AT&T’s National wi-fi network for iPhone users.
  • There are 20K AT&T wi-fi locations across the country including 8K at Starbucks and 10K at McDonalds. Taking into consideration that there is a Starbucks every other block in the big city and a McDonalds every other mile in the little city, chances of hopping on wi-fi are pretty good regardless of your location.
  • iPhone users will receive a text message with an access code after connecting to the wi-fi and entering their mobile number. Sounds easy enough.

I know today is unicorn day, but really AT&T, is this make believe or are you actually doing something practical witth yo bad self?

Ars

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Why I Don’t Buy Into The Web 2.0 Death

by Jason Wilk on October 10, 2008

Just a comment I have been posting around the web to those who have jumped ship on Web 2.0

  • I’m sorry but VC’s , angels, etc. are still going to be hedging their bets on what technology or business model is going to be next, whether or not the companies they are looking at have revenue. These VC’s are merely telling people to slow their burn rate, try and create revenue if possible and just keep things steady while the government sorts through its incompetent bullshit and things start settling. VC’s last week were saying ‘everything is all good and this is their time to shine’. Now, because BofA downgrades display advertising, Google yanks back their earnings, Apple gets shorted on retail, Yahoo continues to suck and Sequoia has a meeting, we all start to suffer? Sequoia is one of the few VC’s that has a major interest in public finance (Goole, Apple, Yahoo, and more). This downturn economy is hurting their fund, however the rest of the intelligent VC’s who don’t have public interest should and will be investing. Of course, they will be reccomending to startups that they spend less money on ping pong tables, PR and beer bongs to move through the crisis without the need to try and raise another round of financing. But this is not time for everyone to call it quits; that is ignorance. Yes, many of the strartups out there don’t deserve to live until tomorrow because they aren’t innovative, well recieved, profitable and just plain dumb, but the saavy investors who have a good tank and don’t rely on Joe Public are going to stick with it. I just don’t buy into that Web 2.0 is done. Web 2.0 is not Pets.com remix. It is innovation and it is not a phase, it’s still testing grounds for the future ahead.

A tiny opinion by Jason

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Video Mashup Service EyeSpot Bites The Dust

by Jason Wilk on October 2, 2008

  • EyeSpot who raised $3.7M last year to provide an easy place to create video mashups has closed its doors and fired all 22 employees. 
  • The online video editing space got too crowded with not enough big buyers left on the table.
  • MySpace acquired Flektor, Yahoo acquired JumpCut, Amazon backed Animoto and more. 

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