Posted in Outrage from the Trenches | Sunday, December 31st, 2006 | Trackback
- Online video site Guba looses a CEO shortly after two of Revver’s founders (another rival to YouTube) left their company. Analysts bemoan the bursting of a video bubble pricked by $1.65 billion of Google money. More like the slow deflation of little note.
- In other Burst 2.0 news, Israeli RawSugar, a Del.icio.us clone, is no more. Willy Wonka salivates at prospect of purchasing the domain name.
- From the ‘Holy Conflict of Ethics, Batman!’ file comes the story of Wired Magazine slamming Digg. If they really didn’t like the social news website that’s fine; the problem is they failed to mention that they owned a direct competitor named Reddit. In a related story a shocked public asks ‘People still read Wired?’.
- Sure, we all know geeks are the most strapping and virile of the tech set but do we really need another ‘Sexiest Geeks of 2006‘ list? I thought being a geek was about liberation from best lip gloss competions.
- BadVista.org, a site by the Free Software Foundation, launches. It’s incredible that a group of software advocates would be so worked up over unsightly horizons. I guess everybody has to have a hobby.
- Google Mail gets a little too much egg nog, looses all the email in a couple dozen accounts, and then urinates in the bushes. Motto changed form ‘do no evil‘ to ‘bring a designated driver‘.
- I know we promised we’d stop, but the PS3 material writes itself. The latest? That in 2007 PS2 sales will exceed those of the PS3. Forget about being the best console ever. The PS3 is struggling just to be the best console at Sony.
- HD-DVD, which languished while major movie studios demand additional security measures, has had its copy protection cracked. What’s more is that the code to crack it was already freely available online. I find myself working through the 12 stages of MPAA empathy. First there was anger, then spite… After this news I’m afraid they’re almost beyond ridicule. It’s like taunting a legless dog; they’re this sad thing with only their bark left.
January 4th, 2007 at 10:58 am
[...] Two more executives try to put as much distance between them and the video sharing Guba website as possible. This is after the CEO, Thomas McInerney, left in December. All of that happened after Thomas had a glowing fluff piece about him in the November issue of Fast Company. Oh, how quickly times change. The picture that ran with the article apparently depicted the number of people visiting their website. [...]
January 8th, 2007 at 10:20 am
[...] Video startups are still getting VC money - in this case its VMix. Apparently they haven’t heard what has happened to Guba and Revver (hint: it’s not good). Given that Guba is knocking on doors asking for a handout the VC’s probably could have bought a full blown already running site for a bit more than they plopped down on VMix’s wing and prayer. [...]