There has been a lot of talk about the “Web 2.0″ bubble and if it’s going to “pop” soon. As we saw with the dot-com bust back in the day, we know it’s happened before. Something that has been on my mind about this topic is this: how involved on the Internet […]

As part of Google’s latest big push for advertising, Google gobbled up YouTube.com for a nice cool $1.63billion in stock. Some small time investors came out nicely in that deal, walking away with some $400 odd million. Founders walked away with $100-200 million each. Not bad for some PayPal alumni.

With AOL slowly losing market share to Yahoo!, Google, and MSN, it really needed to pick up its feed and get on the move to do something big. That “big” they are attemping to make is starting with the debut of OpenRide. OpenRide is a new broadband portal designed to attract visitors that […]