DISQUS

I had went and read the previous entries to learn why this happened. I think I understand everything, and my opinion that you do not deserve this kind of treatment and did not do a mistake. I hope everything will work out for you in this case.

I'm just find your blog. Amazing article, and on certain points you are obviously right. I do not even complain, while you listed all of the important issues and concerns. My opinion is that there need to be a separate section for all of the business related videos, and then the party can be started.

This is... I don't even know the right word. People are just not enough mature to use social websites. I don't know that was it a real threat or sinoke stupidity, but I am happy that the guy has been caught in time.

Yes, I strongly believe that personal branding can play an important role in a person's success, especially if they are in a business like real estate, where your name is everything. Many home business guru's and internet marketing guru's have also done quite well through personal branding.

This is the first blog post that I've read on pitching investors, and I have to say you made some great points. It's not easy to get in front of an audience of potential investors and captivate them or get them excited about what you are doing. These days VC's can see through a crap pitch within seconds, so it's imperative to really keep building momentum in the beginning of your pitch.

LOL I was searching for this game and this post showed up... it's addicting as hell! You are correct sir

I think that there should be some government help... heck, if we can afford to spend $8 billion per month in Iraq, the gov. should be able to invest some money into our economic condition for our future well being... yes, they could let the market play out, as it will, but the forclosures are huge right now and there are a lot of problems due to uneducated borrowers.

"It also speculates that Microsoft is unwilling to attempt a hostile acquisition because it could potentially create regulatory implications as well as creating the possibility that it would require removing the entire existing board of directors."

A hostile acquisition? Microsoft?... Never

Please God, make this happen! I would love to see it go through.

Although I see where Amazon is coming from with this, because they do own the trademark, it's crappy that big companies have to bully little guys out of domain names because of it.

Myspace is doing the same thing, and it seems to be their way of protecting their brand... It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth when large companies with huge revenue have to go after small fish and force them to take their sites down... but I guess in an online world where people abuse trademarks, the companies have to protect what is rightfully theirs.

I'm rooting for Barack, even though his goals are lofty and his speeches may just be a mastery of politician talk. I feel that he has his heart in the right place. Even if Hillary wins, it's going to be a Democrat in office... which is a much better alternative to GB.

Outsourced call centers are great for businesses to save on overhead, but they always suffer in customer service quality. I can't stand getting somebody in another country that doesn't care that I've been a customer for the past 6 years... then they try to stick it to me by making me pay for the hardware that new customers are getting free. They don't care because they aren't even employees of the company that is putting money in their pocket.

Wow, do we finally get to see the fall of AOHell? I doubt it will fold completely, but I'm glad to see that they are struggling... an AOL free internet is a better internet.

It seems like Ask is making a big push to become a player in the search market... which seems to be unsuccessful at this point. I wonder if this site is going to do anything for me traffic wise, because I know their search engine is really lacking in that dept.

Hmmm... Google seems to like social networks that are primarily foreign people... probably because the US social networks are a dime a dozen. I've never even checked out Bebo, so I can't speculate much on this one.

I still don't see the fascination behind Twitter... but since it's such a huge thing now, maybe I should open my mind up to it.

This seems to be the never-ending buyout... they are still under scrutiny, and probably will be for another year or so.

I'm surprised Yahoo Music didn't go down sooner with everyone using iTunes. Yahoo seems to be losing market share in all markets... who is running the show over there?

$2k per share seems far fetched, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if the stock did reach an astronomical high like this. I would have laughed 2 years ago if somebody said it would reach $700 per share, but sure enough it did.

Ohh, I see Myspace is finally catching on with what Facebook has been doing. It's about time they opened it up to developers... Myspace needs to start making more changes or they are going to start losing major market share. This site itself is really lacking several features, and is quite cumbersome.

I didn't realize that Google was charging for Apps at all. I guess it makes sense for access to all of the features. It's a really good alternative to Office, which costs and arm and a leg.

I guess they are going to have to follow suit and start paying attention to the copyright laws.

Record labels are getting more and more aggressive in going after piracy due to the loss in sales.

I'm surprised that China is so loose about music piracy, seeing as though they are so tough on everything else internet related.

Wow, I didn't realize that there were so many awesome tools for utilizing RSS. Nice work mashable! Thanks

lol @ dryer fox... that guy must have had some time on his hands!

Wow, I didn't realize that there were some crazy photos from the street cams... this is hilarious!