is such a mess. LinkedIn makes it almost impossible to find anyone you know or to contact them when you have. Orkut is a toy with amateurish online forum offerings. But Ryze is by far the worst of them all. It is no more than the Classmates.com of the space, with endless pitches (luckily you can control the email you receive), but with no ability to browse people. They’re basically trying to force users to upload their Outlook address book, which is a joke. And the users themselves – it’s a bunch of Herbalife and other pseudo-pyramid losers trying to hook people into a scam. Screw that.
Next from Google?
An article by John Markoff in the NY Times suggests that Google is about to introduce a with respect to the upcoming Google IPO is how far people who think like this Boston Globe writer will go to prove Brin and Page wrong, to force them to accept “the way things are done” and give up on their ideals. I hope Google has protected itself enough, because if not, I could see an investor trying to gain a position just to humble these guys. That would be a shame, even if their schtick is a little saccharine. Google files for $2.7 bln IPO with U.S. SEC. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes, and if it has any impact beyond the specific – and quirky – offering. via Yahoo: Online Extra: What Eric Schmidt Found at Google. Interesting article, though there’s not much meat in it.The only question I have
And awaayyy they go:
From Business Week Online
