Category Archives: Opinion

This Just In: Google Gobbles Up Feedburner for $100M

Google did what it had every reason for doing for a long time.

Could Ask.com Ever Topple Google? Wait, Let Me Stop Laughing First.

Don’t laugh — but that’s the meme that’s kind of floating around, since Allen from CenterNetworks proposed how he might orchestrate it, with Read/Write/Web chiming in with their three cents.
Don’t get me wrong: making some strategic moves makes sense if you’re content to be the third fiddle (or fourth, or fifth) to Google’s chief fiddler [...]

Is Skype Ready For Prime Time?

Some news out of GigaOm, where it looks like Skype and Wal-Mart have struck a deal wherein Skype-branded products will now be carried by Wal-Mart.
All elitest snobbery aside, is anyone else wondering if the name “Skype” carries any cachet to the Wal-Mart crowd? I’m thinking, (as you might) probably not.
But, is Skype really so [...]

The Nature of New Media: Its Neither the ClueTrain Manifesto (Nor Andrew Keen)

Its somewhere in the mushy middle.

MySpace Reminds Everyone: Your Widgets All Belong To Us

Rupert Murdoch is a wiley old fox.

When Will Jason Calacanis Own Up When He’s Wrong?

Well, all debates about a-listers aside (and as an aside, do you think anything but an a-lister who has a history of anti-PPP rhetoric could pull ted murphy on to his podcast?), I feel that when you’ve issued, or answered a challenge, or declared a bet, or asserted your position on something — and it [...]

Yes, Mr. Calacanis, The A-List Exists. No, Its Not Easy To Break Into (If You Wanted To).

Its the weekend and what better time time to catch up on some comments here at DJI.
Jason Calacanis decided to weigh in on a post I did a few months ago, wherein I took exception to the shrill tone of the anti-PPP rhetoric. I also ranted a little about how A-list bloggers didn’t “get” [...]