Archive for the 'social network' Category

Plaxo - Comcast Deal

One big piece of news from today is the deal between Plaxo and Comcast - yep - another big merger. The purchase price is between $150 and $170 million. All in all I think this is a great move for Plaxo, even though they originally wanted $250 million. Plaxo has been making some great advances […]

Product Management

As a product manager I have been seeing more and more variance between this role and what a project manager is supposed to operate as. I’ll admit that until recently I saw very little difference between the project manager and a product manager. Was I ever wrong! I started to poke around […]

Open Social

Okay I know this is the band wagon, and this is all yesterdays news, but I couldn’t help blogging about Google’s Open Social.  I know it’s been awhile since I have posted anything new, but I have been swamped with launching a new platform.  ZDnet’s Robin Harris hits on an interesting thought about why Microsoft […]

MyLifeBrand

The fairly new social network site MyLifeBrand recently received $750,000 from an undisclosed party - pretty hefty amount for a small start-up out of Utah (by the way my home state). MyLifeBrand launched earlier this year with some big claims about their social platform. I heard about the social network several months ago, […]