Here’s official confirmation of the search partnership Microsoft has struck with Twitter, first reported by BoomTown earlier this morning. It’s being distributed as Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, presents at the annual Web 2.0 Summit.
Web 2.0 acolytes who shelled out 1,100 euros for admission to Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, which kicks off today, will no doubt be dismayed to learn that the term “Web 2.0″ is no longer an enchanted aegis under which to quest for venture capital. Seems the VC community has finally had it with Web 2.0, its hobbies masquerading as businesses and start-up brands with a reclusive letter “e.”
“So how’s that Facebook deal working out for you?” Web 2.0 Summit conference program chair John Battelle asked Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week. “Are you making money?”
“Rumor has it that we’re not,” Ballmer replied, adding “Mark [Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO] says we’re happy with it, so I guess we’re happy with it.” Or, rather, happy enough. Because Microsoft has beaten Google out for an ownership stake in Facebook.
What is Net neutrality? This from AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, one of its staunches opponents, and the guy who paid Lent Scrivner & Roth LLC $100,000 to lobby against it in the first half of 2007.
Onstage at Web 2.0 Summit, Stephenson again argues for a two-tiered Internet, rehashing the incumbent telecoms’ talking points. Net neutrality=BAD. [...]
Odd that the final day of Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco begins with a conversation with J. Craig Venter, a genetics pioneer whose idea of a Facebook app would be one that sequences your DNA and compares it with that of your friends.
So what’s the founder of the Institute for Genomic Research doing at [...]
John Battelle (conference programming chair and chairman and publisher of Federated Media Publishing), Ram Shriram (partner, Sherpalo), Thomas J. Tauke (Verizon Executive VP) and Martin Varsavsky (FON founder/CEO) take the stage to discuss the 700 MGHZ MHz spectrum auction and the battle over network neutrality.
Shriram describes the 700 MGHZ MHz spectrum as beachfront property and [...]
Trip Hawkins, Founder & CEO of Digital Chocolate, and Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision, take the stage to discuss “core gaming” with Webb Alert host Morgan Webb.
A bit slow getting started here, but Hawkins soon gets things moving by claiming traditional content is dead. We’re headed toward a world of immersive, social content, says Hawkins, [...]
John Heileman, contributing editor at New York magazine, begins the conversation with Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman by discussing the plan unveiled today to post Comedy Central’s “Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on the Web. As owner of Comedy Central, Viacom is seeking to spread the cable channel’s content on many platforms, thus creating a “richer” [...]
Discussion is led by entrepreneur and start-up adviser Dave McClure, with Seth Goldstein (CEO, SocialMedia.com), Ali Partovi (CEO, iLike), Keith Rabois (VP, Slide) and Lance Tokuda (CEO, RockYou) as panelists.
McClure: How many of you in the audience think the Facebook platform announcement was the most important tech event of 2007? Smattering of hands. Clearly, the [...]
What an inopportune time for a conference appearance. As eBay CEO Meg Whitman takes the Web 2.0 Summit stage, eBay shares are trading down more than 6% amid concerns that the company’s core online auction business is slowing. Though eBay posted earnings yesterday that exceeded Wall Street expectations, its auction listings fell year over year [...]
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How will Rupert Murdoch, head of the world’s largest media empire and soon-to-be-owner of Dow Jones improve The Wall Street Journal?
Make it better in what it does now. Financial news.
Add more national and international news.
Kill the New York Times? “Yes, that would be nice.”
Expand the culture section.
How will he improve MySpace?
Renew co-founder Chris [...]
Now that Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL and president of its “fast-growing” Audience business, has retired from his active management role, he’s got plenty of time to shill for his “Web 2.0 payment platform,” Revolution Money. It’s “PayPal meets MasterCard without the high fees,” says Leonsis, who claims Revolution will completely overhaul the online [...]
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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