August 2007 - Posts

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The Case for Freeing the WSJ Online by Tim Marman

An interesting article in Business Week about opening up the Wall Street Journal Online in the wake of the sale to Murdoch. For The Wall Street Journal Online, going free will come at a high cost. The daily financial newspaper is one of the few major...
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More about raising too much venture capital by Tim Marman

I recently wrote about the dangers of "taking as much as you can get" in a series A. Shortly after that, Dick Costolo wrote an absolutely amazing post about raising too much money. Nonetheless, I don’t think it makes sense for most entrepreneurs to raise...
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Taking on WestLaw and LexisNexis by Tim Marman

Carl Malamud is taking on WestLaw and LexisNexis . Carl Malamud has this funny idea that public domain information ought to be... well, public. He has a history of creating public access databases on the net when the provider of the data has failed to...
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Distinguishing between a platform and a destination by Tim Marman

Charlie says that "the whole idea that you have a main site is dead". I couldn't agree more - I strongly believe that platforms are the future of the Internet. One clarification I'd like to make in this whole discussion is Facebook is both a destination...
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The Full vs. Partial RSS Feed Debate by Tim Marman

Based on a lot of feedback (including my own), Alley Insider decided to go from partial to full RSS feeds . As a publisher, Henry "had trouble understanding how we were supposed to survive if we not only gave our content away but didn't even ask anyone...
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Professional bloggers get journalist rights by Tim Marman

On August 1st, a congressional panel voted to protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources, and explicitly included "professional bloggers" in the category ( via Lena ). This is definitely a step in the right direction. Ultimately...
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I want a motorized cooler by Tim Marman

I agree - this might be the greatest invention of all time . Syndicated from Loosely Coupled // Tim Marman's Weblog | Slashstar ( rss )
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