02.06.06

Nutty rumors of Ebay Aquisition by Google

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:57 pm by techkick

Ok Mash Mesh, I’ve heard those rumors as well but you gotta think through this man.  Like Ebay’s capitalization. It’s BIG.  I mean, yeah, Google is rich and all that but HELLO!  Ebay is a big fricking company.

Ok, maybe Ebay should put Ebay up for auction on Ebay and see who bids for Ebay.  There are still bigger companies than Google, I think.  Lazyweb request: find bigger companies.

Oh, if anyone works for Ebay please email me and let me know what’s up, OK?

Yeah, and I’m pissed about this too.

Sifry and FON and PayPal

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:09 pm by techkick

So Blogosphere President Dave Sifry gives his State of the Blogosphere address here and I’m like “whoa”!  Those blogs just keep coming and the spam too.  Spammers PISS ME OFF, they do.  You know what I like though?  When Big-Name Backers back good stuff.  Case in point:  this article.  Maybe FON should have received their funding via Google Wallet, WSJ article here.  Maybe Google should call their product Buck Buddy or Wallet Wanker.  Ok, great post now.  So digg this, will you!  Teckkick OUT!

Update: Mash Mesh is riffing on it.  You go girl!

Email should be free, darn it!!!

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:45 am by techkick

Ok so the times has this unfrickinbelievable article here where they say the senders must promise to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages, or risk being blocked entirely.  And they also say internet companies say that this will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk e-mail, identity-theft scams and other scourges that plague users of their services.  Whoa!!

My head will explode now.  This violates the spirit of the net dude!  This is BS!  See also this and Cory.

FON fun

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:41 am by techkick

Imagine my delight in leaning this company also announced that Danny Rimer (Index Ventures), Mike Volpi (Cisco) and Niklas Zennström (Skype) joined the board. Existing board members include Martin Varsavsky, FON CEO, and Antonio Fuentes, FON CFO.  Can you frickin believe it?

Some places to read about it are http://gigaom.com/2006/02/05/google-skype-fund-fon/ and also http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006266.html not to mention http://saunderslog.com/2006/02/05/fon-raises-22-million

Tracking those comments everyplace yo!

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:36 am by techkick

Imagine my surprise when Scoble said “Let’s say you track 10 blogs and you regularly post comments on all 10 blogs.” and then said “Isn’t it a pain in the behind that you have to go around to each of the 10 blogs to participate in the comment” and so on!!!

I was floored.

And here is where he said it.

Related links here. Also Don