YSK.comThoughts on interesting companies, trends, and technologies.Friendster: The Next Big Media Company- June 9, 2004 Friendster recently announced that Scott Sassa, former President of NBC West Coast, will be taking over the CEO role from interim CEO, Tim Koogle, former CEO of Yahoo. Scott Sassa is the former wunderkind at Fox Network, Turner Entertainment, NBC, etc. where he has a solid track record of hits such as 'West Wing', 'Fear Factor', and 'Law & Order: SVU'. Scott Sassa is an interesting choice to run a company like Friendster.http://www.ysk.com/blog/archives/000122.html AccelSNRC Symposium- June 9, 2004 One of the great things about blogging is the spirit of information sharing within the community. An example of this is Jeff Nolan's summary of the AccelSNRC symposium on Service-Oriented Flexible Computing on his blog. Instead of paying $350, you can read Jeff's blog to get the highlights. Of course, you're missing out on the networking and offline discussions, but given the cost of admission to Jeff's blog, it's the next best thing.http://www.ysk.com/blog/archives/000121.html Sony's Missed Opportunity in the Handheld Market- June 2, 2004 Sony announced today that they will be exiting the PDA market in the US and European markets. On the surface, this seems surprising since Sony was the third largest vendor of handheld PDA's in 2003 with a 14% market share. It's also a significant blow to the Palm OS platform and PalmSoure, the licensor of the Palm OS platform, since Sony was the second largest seller of Palm OS devices after Palm One.http://www.ysk.com/blog/archives/000120.html |