Dan Pacheco - FriendFeed

@NYMeng I can't keep up with me, either. I'm going to slow down next week, with the help of tryptophan.

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Getting better every day RT @terracreative: Jamming on @printcasting.... what else? Lots of great advances being made with this project!

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@connectme Disagree with you on open source. It's the only reason we have a consumer Internet after dot-bomb days. Open source took over.

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@connectme Only the new big gatekeeper companies make money on software & hardware now. MS, Apple, broadband. The rest is all value add.

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@connectme Ironically, if AOL had never had dialup subscribers it would be just fine. Beware customers who are paying for the wrong thing.

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@connectme I believe there are deep parallels between AOL's dialup business and newspaper / magazine subscription. Probably cable, too.

17 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@connectme AOL's problem was never lack of functionality. It was all those subscribers paying for dialup, then leaving for broadband.

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This is all good news for those of you working on new products that have no revenue. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.

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One day advertisers will move from Google keywords to something else. Then what? Google will be screwed, just like other legacy companies.

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@connectme I don't believe many truly make money selling online consumer software. It's all about service, and always has been.

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@connectme I talked to many justthisclose companies. Interesting time, especially as 2000 approached & everyone was running out of capital.

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I have nothing against Google. #justsayin that every company eventually deals with transition. It's hard to wean yourself from current $.

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I'll never forget the day I was in an AOL VP's office & he was told that partner Google had made $6 million on these new pay-per-click ads.

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I know I'm weird for caring that AOL is laying off 1/3 of its staff. I remember when it was at the top, and was lucky to work there.

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

He said, "Let's get more of those!" Years later, $6 million is like an annoying gnat to Google and AOL is rebooting.

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

AOL was a true trailblazer early on, but became a "legacy media" company. All in just 15 years. Maybe it will get past that now.

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Why would I want to do that? To test cross-platform compatibility, primarily browsers. Hate that I have to install a whole OS for that.

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Just upgraded to Parallels 5 for $50 and I'm liking it already. I can comfortably run XP and Vista on OSX. (Have Windows 7 on a Netbook).

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@orihoffer Yeah. They should have listened to us more back then, dammit! ;-)

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

The Vatican of all places is now searching for ETs out of a facility inArizona: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

A successful family owner / publisher in S. America told me he never expects to profit and only ever hopes to cover expenses.

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I'm starting to think that using journalism to make a profit is unsustainable. At best you break even & invest in the future.

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@connectme The problem is that the goals of informing a community and making hand over fist $$ are very different.

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@connectme I've been told that many LatAm newspapers are byproducts of other successful businesses. Their objective is not primarily profit.

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm basically a monk who operates under the title of "journalist."

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Maybe a digital monk. I'll never make a lot of money, but I will help make good things happen.

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@oliviagarcia Peruvians e-mail, MMS and post photos for a chance to get them featured in print as well. So lots of social media down there.

Tuesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@oliviagarcia At La Republica in Lima, they have various polls and contests in print where people compete to get their SMS quotes featured.

Tuesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@oliviagarcia Latin American newsrooms love Bakotopia.com and many either seek to emulate it, or already are. Who would have guessed?

Monday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I have all these metal-mouth images from Molly Ringwald movies going through my head. Soon to be me!

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