Fortune had an interesting article by Jeffrey M. O’Brien on the links between and among the various alumni of the PayPal online payment service, focusing on the Mafia-like aspects of their affiliation.
Actually, after reading it, with all the silly sniping among some of them (now all apparently resolved), it sounded to me more like the [...]
Marc Canter isn’t the only one talking out loud about Google’s OpenSocial initiative.
Max Levchin, founder, chairman and CEO of Slide–the No. 1 widget maker on Facebook–sent out an email (posted in full after the jump) on Friday about the development. His point? For makers of third-party applications for social networks, their bread is buttered on [...]
Back around Day 55–ah, the lazy days of midpoint in Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s 100-day No-Sacred-Cows VisionQuest for the revitalization of the company he co-founded–I asked a bunch of people around Silicon Valley what they would do to help the beleaguered leader.
We got some good answers to be sure (the video is reposted below), but [...]
This week Om Malik and his co-host Joyce Kim interview Max Levchin, Slide CEO, on the online GigaOM Show on Revision3.
I did a three-part series of interviews with Max, as well as doing a video of a visit I paid to the widgetmaker’s offices in San Francisco, and I posted them all yesterday.
But [...]
So about a month ago, I got irked by various comments execs at popular widget-maker Slide made to the Associated Press about the boom going on right now in the market for those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on popular social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Most annoying was the [...]
Here is the first of three interviews with Slide CEO and founder Max Levchin. If you want to read more about why I visited him, see this explanatory post.
In this part, he discusses his background and how his idea to make it easier to use the Web turned him into a “widget king.”
If you want [...]
Here is the second of three interviews with Slide CEO and founder Max Levchin. If you want to read more about why I visited him, see this explanatory post.
In this part, he discusses how one might make, oh yes, actual money in the widget game. Guess what? One Slide ad salesperson has a lot of [...]
Here is the third of three interviews with Slide CEO and founder Max Levchin. If you want to read more about why I visited him, see this explanatory post.
In this part, he discusses the IPO market for widgets. Are they Intuit, Adobe or, um, not? Also, what should Yahoo do (as usual)?
If you want to [...]
In a story published this week by the Associated Press about popular widget-maker Slide, one of the more annoying concepts being floated by marketers, especially related to social networks, popped up like the undying vampire it has become.
“We are really good at getting people to take things and include them on their social-networking pages,” said [...]
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