Biz Stone is today's P.T. Barnum. His business model at Twitter never centered on being profitable. So, as AOL continues to fumble around with its own brand identity or lack there of, Biz Stone is a logical choice to hopefully put this Mastodon of a company into extinction.
Amy, you are far too kind, and words such as those will only encourage us... so be careful! As for Biz and what it's short for, well, wouldn't you know it, the man wrote a blog post in 2004 about this very important subject! I've only clicked on it... haven't actually read it, because I find it hard to believe that the topic is actually worth the 6-7 paragraphs he's devoted to it. But I'll be the answer is in there somewhere!
Thanks for your feedback. :) More Nicole and Steve nonsense to come tomorrow!
I could watch Steve and Nicole exude ennui all day! I just wished one of them had yawned explaining the BizAOL mashup. (Surely there must be a cutesy acronym waiting to be spawned reflecting these two ESSENTIAL INTERNET BRANDS forming an alliance. AOL.biz? (What is "Biz" short for, anyhoo?)
But Mary's right. Sorry, but Stone is like a Kardashian today, or like a Hilton sister back in her heyday: just the attaching of that name to an endeavor makes a win-win in some folks' eyes. Thing is, the last time I was excited about anything AOL was when they bought Netscape 1,000 years ago.
StoneCutters? Biz-y Bee? AOL's Last Gasp at Relevance? I'm stumped.
Nicole and Kim have heard the news that Google's new mobile OS, "Jelly Bean," has a voice assistant that's poised to defeat their precious Siri. It's time for another test!
Apple's newest commercial features actress Zooey Deschanel having her requests for weather, soup, and music easily fulfilled by Siri. Nicole and Kim are putting those same questions to the test.
At the IBM Pulse conference, executives urged attendees to stop being guided by hype and start thinking about the cloud and other enterprise "toys" in terms of their own business outcomes.
Based on reactions in Nicole's Newsfeed, everyone hates this version of Facebook. This should matter to Facebook now that there's a real competitor on the scene named Google+.
Allowing users to share music and video on Facebook might sound like good news, but is this part of a coherent strategy, or is Facebook just stumbling from idea to idea?
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
MySpace is reinventing itself by focusing on content, but it's too late, and other social networks should learn from its example by looking toward a telco payment model if they want to sustain user commitment and their own revenue.
We do love our social networking, but, according to computer scientist Jaron Lanier, we may be diminishing ourselves when we join the hive. “May be? Ha!” says Mr. Cramer.
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