George Bounacos

"@cscyphers – I absolutely agree with you 100% about Plaxo’s early days. Kind of like Twitter now, eh? The reason that I’m intrigued by Plaxo is that even News Corp’s acquisition of MySpace doesn’t come close to what Comcast will bring to Plaxo. It’s very much like AOL & Time Warner was supposed to be, but there’s been constant evolution since then online and in the way people interact online. If Plaxo ends up being the backbone of a Comcast social media strategy, the site will change. It’s the main social site for an organization with a $50 billion market cap. What it evolves into rather than what it has been before it was sold this year is what makes the story interesting." - George Bounacos

"Thanks, Rob. It was fun gazing into the crystal ball. One thing I didn’t touch on that continued gathering steam this week was the rate of Google acquisitions and new service offerings. The Yelp acquisition — if true — is big as Google pushes its way into small self-serve advertisers with the promise of millions of pieces of local UGC in the database and more to come. Other technology acquisitions like Docverse (to round out Google apps) or an iPhone substitute sold directly to consumers are big, but Yelp pushes Google AdWords downmarket very fast." - George Bounacos