Zuckerberg creates new class of stock in preparation for selling to institutions and the public. Insiders have been talking about the possibly of an IPO for months, but today the dual stock class decision is a clear indication that your chance to own some powerless B class shares is coming soon ;-) I think I’ll [...]
Nov 242009
Twitter’s traffic has dropped by about 25% in 90 days, reversing course on it’s giant exponential ramp up during spring and early summer. Perhaps once people got intrigued by simple social networking, they moved on to interfaces that allowed more than 2 sentences. Here is the image that must be keeping the twitter exec’s and [...]
Nov 242009
Facebook and Mafia Wars creator Zynga ready for court as a class action lawsuit was filed today over “offer-based” ads that automatically rebilled users each month. The “offers” consisted ads that asked users to complete surveys in return for prizes, but neglected to tell these users they were also being signed up to paid subscription [...]
Posted by Jay at 12:14 am Tagged with: Facebook, lawsuit, mafia wars
Nov 222009
Bebo, the once popular social network geared around member updates and media uploads, continues it’s death spiral towards nothingness as traffic drops another 50% over the past 6 months. The Bebo Traffic graph from Quantcast would only be good if you could sled down it. Here is the data: Bebo has been a mecca for [...]
Oct 222009
Kanye West isn’t dead, yet after 48 hours the rumor will not die. I saw a new rumor last night Kanye’s mom had died, it could even be true, I’m so confused by all this nonsense flying around on Twitter. I think Balloon Boy got everyone excited to fake the Kanye West funk. Now getting [...]
Posted by Jay at 12:07 pm Tagged with: balloon boy, kayne west, twitter
Oct 182009
Twitter is Down, Biz Stone Sleeps. Twitter downtime problems continue. The service has been down for 5 hours. While founder Biz Stone is passed out after a night of taste testing his latest vintage of Twitter Wine, twitter users are wondering if the Old Fail Whale is going to be beached all day. How can [...]
Oct 152009
Each day an increasing number of people are being exposed to Tumblr through links in tweets, articles about social media, and recommendations from friends. The surprising part is how many people are becoming addicted to the free blogging service. What is Tumblr some may ask? It’s a very simple blogging interface with no character limits. [...]
As I was spilling coffee trying to tweet the URL of the LA Times article that was just posted about Twitter’s future Revenue Model I realized I was not only an idiot for dumping 6 bucks worth of french roast on white carpet, but also a complete douche for laughing so much at Twitter the [...]
Oct 032009
If you’ve been on Twitter this past week you’ve likely noticed “googlewave” in the trending topics. Google Wave, an open source collaboration software suite previewed at Google I/O, is being touted by Google as a communication tool that may revolutionize how we share information online. Wave is largely counting on developers to dream up and [...]
Posted by Jay at 12:35 am Tagged with: google, google wave, twitter
Guy Kawasaki gives a great presentation in Vancouver. Guy starts out cracking jokes about how he discovered hockey in his mid 40′s, and that he’s always been a Canadian stuck in Hawaiian’s body. In his typical evangelical fashion, Mr. Kawasaki let’s the crowd pick the topic of his presentation. Over the next hour he proceeds [...]
Posted by Jay at 8:01 am Tagged with: canada, guy kawasaki, twitter, venture capitalist
Sep 302009
The jerky, slow loading videos you’re trying to smoothly stream on YouTube aren’t only failing on your computer. Over the past 24 hours I’ve seen an increasing number of YouTube Lag complaints showing up in tweets, live commentary on ustream and other blogs. My YouTube experience has been less than stellar for the past several [...]
Posted by Jay at 2:06 am