Destiny of Facebook and YouTube

Viacom buys Atom, adding this to their other recent purchases, XFIRE, Y2M, GameTrailers.com, IFILM and Neopets, placing them all under MTV Networks. Atom has very interesting short films and gaming properties, but none of the sizzle and growth rate of YouTube, for example. The one thing still missing from their portfolio is a MySpace-like social

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Google Gets MySpace

Google + MySpace = ~ 1 Billion Dollar deal. MySpace already makes $350 Million a year in revenues, but a Google deal will add a great deal of structure to their advertising. Of course, this just pushed the valuations of FaceBook and YouTube up another notch as well. Some exits are in the wings for

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Oh Please!

Here’s Om Malik speaking my mind on the Business Week cover story on Digg. Paper net worth is vapor net worth, as many of us have experienced in the past!

DAC 2006

Design Automation Conference is going on in San Francisco right now. Read a report from EETimes on Joe Costello’s keynote about the Future of EDA. Note, Joe is talking about web 2.0 concepts and mashups in the context of EDA. My piece on the Future of EDA is here. We all agree on one thing:

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