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This rant has been triggered by a post at TechCrunch, which describes Topix.net’s brand transformation.
In short, Topix.net bought Topix.com and in the process decided to re-evaluate their product, brand, etc. According to their CEO, they asked themselves the question: “What do you do when your success … sucks?“. So what changed?
According to USA Today (~ [...]

I’m not a pundit or an expert for that matter. Looking at Yahoo’s unspectacular performance and Google’s rise to dominance, it makes sense they’ll be looking for change.
They in this case is no other than Yahoo’s BoD. The big news is that Yahoo’s CFO, Susan Decker, gets promoted, while quite a few senior people leave. [...]

All hail the new caesar of video sharing – Gootube.
Gizmodo did a pretty good job of coming up with a name of the merger between Google Video and Youtube. They even went so far as to create a logo. I love it.

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Yahoo bought Jumpcut, it makes sense that Google want to expand further in that space as well. They recently put video on their homepage to promote their Google Video service. Traffic stats indicate it lags far behind Youtube (source: Hitwise).
Now, TechCrunch posts that there are rumors that Google’s going to acquire Youtube.
The Wall [...]

GigaOM published this recently. There weren’t a lot of comments because Jumpcut was just a few months old and a relative unknown in the video arena. (Youtube sucking all the free PR!) Here’s what Liz had to say:
When I met Jumpcut earlier this summer, they had 11 employees, had raised $1 million in seed money, [...]

My last post dealt with user-generated content (UGC). Now, another favorite subject of mine – citizen journalism.
I do have a degree in Journalism so someone might consider me a professional, ergo, no citizen journalist. A recent article on the subject however defined citizen journalism like this: The intent of this participation is to provide independent, [...]

I’ve been posting user-generated content on a regular basis here (be it Guy Kawasaki or Numa numa).
The guys at BusinessLogs have come up with something of a “theory” to explain the value the end-user gets by contributing to a site. The question that’s being asked is:
If you spend X units of time/creativity/effort do you get [...]