2 posts and columns on Rich Skrenta

QOTD

“While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming. This computer is running the world’s top search engine, a social networking service, a shopping price comparison engine, a new email service, and a local search/yellow pages engine. What will they do next with the world’s biggest computer and most advanced operating system?”

– Rich Skrenta, co-founder of Topix and Blekko, predicts Google’s Chrome OS in 2004.

The Economics of Media Blabbery

in News on June 24, 2007 at 9:04 pm PT

Speaking of Rafat Ali, here is a video of a panel I did at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Calif., on April 26 at paidContent.org’s conference, “The Economics of Social Media.” Our session covered how mainstream media looks at the explosion of social media, but really was about the woes of the traditional news [...]