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1. Comment - AOL bloggers sigh over closure of Journals, Hometown

   (Oct 3, 2008 - 2:30 PM)

   AOL Journal was a bad idea. It was mostly marketed as an online diary back at a time where the news was really harping on the dangers of posting 'personal information' online. This seriously hindered the services opportunity to grow, it's funny how if at the time someone in marketing would have come up with the term 'blog' that it could have exploded in popularity.
   
   As for Hometown, the concept was great. It allowed the casual end user to come up with a website with little to no knowledge of HTML. The problem was as design methods change (granulated color schemes, bigger and bolder fonts, 2.0 badges etc), Hometown never did. So while you had all these sites coming online that were more visually appealing, Hometown kept it's 1.0 (if you want to call it that) product hence made it obsolete after a while.

2. Comment - Microsoft drops $50 billion bid to acquire Yahoo

   (May 4, 2008 - 3:38 PM)

   This is classic hostile take over bait set out by Microsoft. Here is how this is going to play out. Monday morning, the shorter's (day traders) will dump the Yahoo stock, the stock will then plumed further and thus Microsoft will buy the outstanding shares of Yahoo having majority ownership in the company.
   
   The only way Yahoo would be able to fend this off is by already having already reached an agreement with another outside company or make a series of announcements that would boost the value of the stock back up.
   
   I say it's going to be option a) the stock will tank and Microsoft will purchase Yahoo at a very nice discount. Making Yang wish he had taken Balmer's initial offer.

3. Comment - NJ court rules ISP info confidential without subpoena

   (Apr 22, 2008 - 11:50 AM)

   Ok great, information can't be released with out a subpoena. But do you know how easy it is in the post 9/11 era to get that subpoena? "We have reason to believe that IP address 129.x.x.101 is a terrorist..." -- Oh ok let me signed this order right away then... boom that's it. This isn't exactly a victory for privacy rights.

4. Comment - Prince Sues YouTube, eBay, and Pirate Bay

   (Sep 14, 2007 - 10:12 PM)

   NEWS FLASH Prince doesn't own Prince's music, Prince's music label owns Prince's music. Very rarely will labels grant artist exclusive ownership to their own masters.

5. Comment - Prince Sues YouTube, eBay, and Pirate Bay

   (Sep 14, 2007 - 10:08 PM)

   I wasn't suggesting that the commercials wouldn't be re-edited out. That's pretty much a given, and was to be expected. The ideology I was attempting to covey was that we take the burden of purchase out of the hands of those who weren't going to pay for it anyway and let big business purchase the music for everyone else.