Aug. 3, 2007
Handheld buys eBaum’s World
The Tech Chronicles
The story about a 10-year old making good on the Internet.
”Founded by a teenager 10 years ago, eBaum’s World is an edgy Internet site filled with clips, games and photos that’s popular with teens and young men. Combining Handheld to its family of sites, the company now ranks as one of the top Internet video companies, said Jeff Oscodar, CEO of HandHeld. “The only people around us now are the billion dollar players,” he said. ”
Apparently Web content is hot again
Tech Dirt
Mike Masnick talks about something that seemed fairly obvious.
“Every few years, someone announces that “content is king” online and that the next big success stories are going to be all about the content. Of course, that never actually seems to happen — perhaps because the content business is a tough one, prone to fads and mostly beholden to a cyclical advertising market.”
The pulse social network
Tech Crunch
Michael Arrington has a blog about Plaxo preparing social networking site that users can trust.
“Will users flock to Plaxo and use Pulse in the same way that they use Facebook today? I don’t think they will. Facebook invented the news feed for social networks. Playing catch up is always hard. And when you are still fighting reputational issues, it becomes harder still.”
