July 2009
19 posts
Will Google Voice kill Android?
Michael Arrington from TechCrunch did a interesting post today about leaving the iPhone for the new Android My Touch 3G phone. He is leaving the iPhone because they blocked Google Voice’s application from being put in the app store. Mike is a big fan of Google Voice.
For those of you that don’t know, Android is a operating system for cell phones that was developed by Google and...
Watchbijan:
Nat Friedman took this amazing video of surfers in downtown Munich.
If it is too good to be true...
Since the CTIA show in March a lot of friends have asked me about a new company called Zer01, I am sort of the local expert for mobile questions. Zer01 is supposedly launching a $70 unlimited data/voice mobile phone in the US. The announced at CTIA and won Laptop Magazines best in show as well as a finalist in CTIA’s best of show award.
I tried to become an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network...
Where does Google get all of that money...
I have really been enjoying the tech blog Gigaom more and more recently. Today they have a post about where Google’s revenue comes from.
97% of Google’s revenue comes from advertising
What I find most interesting about this as an entrepreneur whose business is under a full attack from Google is that while they have bought and gone into 100’s of markets their revenue and in...
“Voice-to-text firm SpinVox is trying to pay staff in stock instead of salary...”
– Moconews.net
Just for market clarity I think it is worthwhile to report that SimulScribe/PhoneTag is profitable.
What I learned from the garage door guy
I had a new garage door installed last week. As with most of the things I buy these days I went to Google and typed in “Garage doors LA”.
The company that looked the best was on a sponsored link, LA Overhead Garage Door and Gate. It was a Sunday so I sent them a request through the site. From that request the owner came out to my house to do the inspection and give me a price.
I...
Sadly, Pandora Is Still Going Bankrupt →
azspot:
As I’ve written about for the Wall Street Journal, the online radio business is doomed because the required per song payment to the record labels is too high to ever have a profitable business. Recently a new set of rates were announced which press reports said “averted the royalty crisis”. It’s true the new rates are lower, but they are nowhere close to allowing a viable web radio...
“And if that means competing with its friends, its attitude is — just ask Mozilla...”
– Om Malik on Gigaom today
“Which is exactly what MySpace should do. Rather than trying to reinvent itself...”
– Mark Cuban
I think that social pressures force many businesses like Myspace to not go the cash cow route. I totally agree with Mark here, run Myspace with 20-30 people, have it make $100million+ to the bottom line annually and let it slowly die. Then reinvest those earnings into things with a...
“In all fairness to the S.C. governor’s aides “I am hiking the...”
– My father in law sent me this in a email forward. Thought it was too funny to keep to myself.
