An interested question was presented to an audience I was in this past weekend. If you could predict what the technology landscape will look like in five years, what players won’t be here? If you could go back five years and have guessed, would you have been right today?
 
In my lifetime the things that come to the top of my mind of having died would be the following:

vinyl records
cassettes
8-tracks
beta max
VCR
floppy disks

If I were to guess about some other items that won’t be here in five years I’d add landline phones. I think incandescent …read more

The biggest headline yesterday was from the British TIMESONLINE who announced that News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake. According to the article, News Corp who owns Myspace, will be willing to give Myspace away in return for a 30 per cent stake in Yahoo. This means a return of $12.3 billion for their $580 million investment only 2 years ago.
Myspace is currently working exclusively with Google for powering its search feature as well as ad platform and a Yahoo takeover may mean a big blow for Google, considering Myspace is the one of the most visited …read more