Travelocity really doesn't want my money...
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Travelocity Regains Strength
Travelocity Regains Strength
08/01/2004 11:24 PMTravelocity once ruled the online travel business; then it was
trounced by Expedia. Now it' s finally back in the black.
Interview: Elizabeth Peaslee, VP,
Customer Experience, Travelocity
Interview: Elizabeth Peaslee, VP,
Customer Experience, Travelocity
01/21/2003 11:58 AMMusicians Making Lots Of Money, Money,
Money...
Musicians Making Lots Of Money, Money,
Money...
09/03/2004 02:40 PMJeremiah writes
"Amidst the public ballyhoo about how rampant P2P piracy is costing
the music business its very life (gasp! NO!), BMI announced it collected a record
level of revenue and royalty payout to its artist members. From
their press release: "BMI has reported revenues of $673 million for
the 2004 fiscal year, an increase of nearly $43 million, 6.8% over the
prior year. Royalties of more than $573 million were distributed to
our songwriters, composers and music publishers, an increase of $40
million or 7.5% from the previous year, and the most ever paid by an
American PRO." Another interesting tidbit: "During the period
1995-2004, BMI had an average annual revenue growth rate of 9%..." If
I read this right, BMI has been reporting solid growth over the last
nine years, which makes me question the industry's claims about P2P.
Either P2P ate into their growth (not mentioned), they found a way to
cope with it (plausible), or it may actually help music sales.
Whatever. Reminds me a bit of a spec I did for a life-insurance
company's radio ad: Money
, Money, Money (mp3 file)."
Money 2005: Microsoft Unveils Simplified
Approach to Financial Management and
Helps People Make Sense of Their Money
Money 2005: Microsoft Unveils Simplified
Approach to Financial Management and
Helps People Make Sense of Their Money
09/21/2004 08:41 AMMarking the largest development effort for Microsoft(R) Money since
the personal finance software was launched 13 years ago, Microsoft
Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced Microsoft Money 2005 Premium,
Deluxe, Standard and Small Business. Completely rebuilt to simplify
daily financial tasks, Money 2005 is designed to answer the growing
number of consumer requests for a simple solution that addresses the
three primary areas of financial concern: tracking account balances,
monitoring spending and paying bills. Consumers today have less time
than ever to spend managing their finances, which has contributed to
the number of American households banking online -- due to its
convenience and efficiency -- reaching nearly 33 million.(1) Money
2005 builds on this trend by helping people access all their accounts
in one place and providing automated tools that reduce or eliminate
the manual entry required by traditional personal finance software.
Show Me The Money - Microsoft Money Vs.
Quicken
Show Me The Money - Microsoft Money Vs.
Quicken
07/03/2004 08:57 AMHard money, the new soft money
Hard money, the new soft money
06/29/2004 02:04 PMXDB-Money 0.9
XDB-Money 0.9
04/26/2004 04:03 PMA Web-based personal finance system based on PHP/MySQL.
Not all about money
Not all about money
11/07/2003 01:00 AMZDNet Australia Nov 7 2003 0:08AM ET
What Money Can't Buy
What Money Can't Buy
12/22/2004 01:08 AM
Money 1.0
Money 1.0
12/04/2003 09:34 PMSimple accounting and personal financial management application.
XDB-Money 0.11
XDB-Money 0.11
09/20/2004 05:12 PMA Web-based personal finance system based on PHP/MySQL.
We're so money
We're so money
01/24/2004 01:39 PM An interesting documentary I stumbled across about
international banking's rise to power through history. It features
poor quality video with not-quite-synced audio, yet it kept me
riveted.
Part two goes on to explain how the country will never be able
to escape debt under the current monetary system.
Money, money, money...
Money, money, money...
12/26/2003 05:19 AMWhere Should Your Money Go?
Where Should Your Money Go?
05/21/2004 02:29 PMMoney is made to spend. Here's where to park it until you part with
it.
Here! Take Our Money!
Here! Take Our Money!
05/28/2004 12:38 PMCostco pays employees quite well, but those who say it's overpaying
are crazy. Happy employees matter.
is right on the money
is right on the money
12/24/2003 07:42 AMgreat piece today .. David
Brooks
nytimes.com/2003/12/23/opinion/23BROO.html
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Fun in Following the Money
Fun in Following the Money
05/08/2004 05:06 AMAn inside look at the economy in the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG shows
that virtual money doesn't quite work like real money, and fun has a
lot to do with it. By Daniel Terdiman.
Pay money fa$t
Pay money fa$t
01/03/2005 10:04 AMUSA Today Jan 3 2005 2:14PM GMT
You May Owe More Money Soon
You May Owe More Money Soon
03/30/2005 08:55 AMWatch out -- credit card minimum payments are on the rise.
It's just money
It's just money
12/09/2003 01:24 PM What's a bigger waste of taxpayer money:
Throwing a concert in a tunnel
for a
public works project years
late and over budget or putting on a
New Year's fireworks display for TV
cameras only?
Someone Has My Money
Someone Has My Money
02/05/2005 09:12 PMWeb hosting costs money per gigabyte. Internet access costs money
per megabit. Internet providers pay per sustained megabit to their
providers, who do the same. So, I pay money to my ISP, who pays their upstream provider, who pays
theirs and so on. Then I pay for my website and their pay their
provider who pays theirs and so on.
Who is "and so on"? Who has all my money? Who the hell is making
out like a bandit on all this stuff?
Got money?
Got money?
12/29/2004 05:17 AMSometimes I use this blog to recommend ways that you can save money.
Today, it's ways that you can spend money: Coldwater Creek, one of my
favorite clothing and accessory stores, is having a sale if you
purchase through their...
It's so money
It's so money
06/17/2004 01:45 AMUSA Today Jun 17 2004 6:24AM GMT
Money for Nothing
Money for Nothing
06/05/2005 11:54 PMThe marketing agency Group M has a message for clients: We work hard
for your money. It wasn't easy to rack up 2,000 billable hours by
putting 200 employees in a single commercial.
Big money, soon come
Big money, soon come
04/27/2004 07:19 AMUSA Today Apr 27 2004 11:37AM GMT
XDB-Money 0.10
XDB-Money 0.10
09/14/2004 06:35 PMA Web-based personal finance system based on PHP/MySQL.
Money SOS
Money SOS
02/12/2004 03:39 PMGot a money situation? Get armed before you call for professional
reinforcements.
XDB-Money 0.02
XDB-Money 0.02
03/14/2003 03:59 AMA simple Web-based personal finance tracker based on PHP/MySQL.
Money Tips From Mom
Money Tips From Mom
05/07/2004 03:06 PMTurns out mother's advice was right on the money.
PingID gets even MORE money
PingID gets even MORE money
04/13/2004 11:15 AMMan - you sure need allot of money and high priced sales and
marketing people to play in the 'enterprise' world! Luckily for
us humans - we come cheaper.
Ping Identity Completes First Round of
Financing With Fidelity Ventures Pioneer in Federated Identity
Management Closes Series A Round at $5.8 Million
April 13, 2004) - Ping Identity Corporation ( a leading provider of
federated identity management solutions, today announced the closing
of its first round of financing totaling $5.8 million. Fidelity
Ventures joins lead investor General Catalyst Partners and several
other private investors in this round. Ping Identity will use the
investment to expand the company’s sales, marketing and product
development efforts. The company is also announcing that Dave
Power, partner at Fidelity Ventures, will join the company’s
board of directors.
“We’re extremely pleased to have Fidelity Ventures as a
major investor. Fidelity not only understands the importance of
identity federation, but is actively driving its adoption” said
Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity Corporation. “Web
services applications have the potential to transform Internet
commerce – but only if companies can overcome the barrier of
identity theft. Our mission is to eliminate this barrier by
helping customers create and manage secure identity networks.”
Ping Identity’s federated identity solutions enable trading
partners to exchange customer identity information securely over the
Internet. Using federated identity, companies can provide more
integrated services to customers, extend their business processes with
trading partners, reduce the threat of identity theft, and lower the
cost of security administration. Ping Identity provides software
and services to allow companies to implement federated identity
solutions using industry standard protocols such as SAML,
Ping Identity is the sponsor of the leading open source federation
project, SourceID (SourceID software is distributed by Ping Identity
both in an open source version to promote the adoption of federated
identity solutions, and in an enhanced, commercially supported
version. Ping Identity also provides services to ensure the
integrity and legal foundation for identity networks, and has created
the industry’s first identity network, PingID Network
(www.pingid.net).
“We see a solid opportunity to assist Ping Identity with its
go-to-market strategy," said Dave Power, partner at Fidelity
Ventures. ”Its open source project has created a large and
growing base of potential customers for its commercial products and
services. In fact, many of Fidelity’s business partners are
already working with SourceID technology. Additionally, the
management team’s extraordinary influence on the identity
industry continues to expand through their customer and vendor
partnerships, along with their efforts to educate and support
standards for the industry.”
helmintholog: Where the money went
helmintholog: Where the money went
07/27/2004 06:20 PMWhere the money
went
thewormbook.com/helmintholog/archives/001242.html#001242
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Playlist: That's the way the money goes
Playlist: That's the way the money goes
09/20/2004 08:41 AMAre You Normal About Money?
Are You Normal About Money?
01/05/2005 11:16 AMWell, are you? Most of us are certifiably weird about it.
How Much E-911 Money Actually Going
Towards 911 Services?
How Much E-911 Money Actually Going
Towards 911 Services?
05/10/2004 05:49 AMThis isn't a particularly new story. In fact, over a year ago, we
first mentioned that much of the money in New York designated on phone
bills to go towards E-911 service was
actually
going towards things like winter boots. Now, the NY Times has
picked up on the story and notes that
only $30 million of the $440 million people thought they were
paying for a modern 911 service has actually gone to that
purpose. While many areas still are not prepared for the new system,
the state insists that E-911 systems will be up and running by the
year's end. Of course, the problem isn't just that E-911 systems
aren't ready, but that people were told they were paying this fee for
911 systems. If the money was supposed to be going for winter boots,
why didn't they add a "winter boots" fee line to mobile phone bills?
The power of VC money
The power of VC money
01/05/2005 02:03 PMWhether it was Joi Ito or Barak, 6A certainly knows how to spend
that VC money. Eve
ryone is talking about it and it's not
even 9 AM yet here in PST zone. The purchase of LiveJournal is truly a
remarkable thing.
I can think of ONE social networking investor/entrepreneur who is
pissed he didn't get the deal. He tried several times to contact Brad
Fitzpatrick - but I guess he's not Joi Ito.
Somewhere in this deal - this imaginary conversation happened:
BRAD: "So what are you gonna do with our
end-users?"
Michael Sippey: "They'll start using TyupePad -
cause we'll tell them to."
BRAD: "Maybe they don't WANT to use TypePad. It's
not LJ, it doesn't have the social networking aspects and quite
frankly - they're HAPPY with LJ."
BARAK: "Yes - but since we'll own you, we can do
whatever we want with your end-users."
BRAD: "Well then fuck you - I'm not gonna do the
deal."
DAVID HORNIK: "Fine - then how 'bout $10M? How
does that sound?"
BRAD: "Not enough! I want $20M."
JOI: "Come on Brad, I'll give you honorary status
on my IRC channel - we'll laud you everywhere you go and we'll move
you to San Francisco."
BRAD: "what about my peeps? What's gonna happen
to them?"
MICHAEL SIPPEY: "We'll put them into the back
room - they'll be happy programmers or else we'll just dump them."
BRAD: "OK make it $25M - but stash my money into
an off-shore account and don't let anyone know. I want to announce
that we sold it for $3M. Shhhhhhhhh."
or something like that.
Thsi is truly an amazing deal.
Brad has been insular, narrow minded, not willing to listen to
others or do any deals - and now this. Wow - talk about a
turn around!
But he's smart to grab the money now. I just don't see how he has
the power to change, move, manipulate or really offer up his end-user
base. As noted
in Techdirt - these folks aren't inclined to pay.
Now Brad has dropped 100 balls on how to figure out how to "milk
that tit" - so now let's see if 6A (and Andrew Anker) are any
smarter.
I bet they are.
Finally if you
read what Om says (and believe it):
Live Journal has been in talks with several other possible
acquirers, though Six Apart is more of a natural fit. My sources tell
me that all Live Journal employees are going to be retained.
Then at least the LiveJournal employees are safe. Now the question
is "what about the LJ end-users?"
Regardless there are a few things now clear:
- if you want to leak something - go to Om Mailk
- VC money works
- Andrew Anker has found the right place for himself - and his buddy
David Hornik is the envy of the VC world
- and the power and aura of Joi Ito is confirmed.
Now I just wanna see what Micahel Sippey is all about. We still
don't have WYSIWYG editing in MT and my GOOD friend Anil is all
promises, but no action on.....
Well I'll just leave that blank and we'll give Anil the benefit of
the doubt. It looks like he's (and the rest of 6A) have been busy.
But last I looked CEOs get the credit for deals like this - so my
25 year friend Barak Berkowitz (I first met him in NYC in 1980) gets
the shout out "DUUUUUUUUUUUDE".
The Lawyers and Their Money
The Lawyers and Their Money
05/12/2004 11:17 AMThis one goes into the Shameless Hall of Fame: Some of the lawyers
who sued Microsoft for its predatory behavior against California
customers are doing their best to fuel the public's contempt for the
legal profession.
They're asking for more than $250 million in
fees, as the AP reports today -- "about $3,000 per hour for one
lawyer, more than $2,000 an hour each for 34 other attorneys and
$1,000 an hour for administrative work."
This is beyond absurd. We get ripped off once by Microsoft, and now
the lawyers -- whose deal with Microsoft gives precious little
individual customers -- are bellying up to the trough in ways that
would embarrass anyone who had an ounce of shame.
The judge in this case should say no. Give the lawyers a reasonable
fee, not this grotesque lottery score. It's the customers who deserve
most of that money.
Money for bl0gs
Money for bl0gs
02/05/2005 09:12 PM
Dan Gillmor is reporting on Sony giving money to
Nick Denton....
New Blog Gets Big Bucks
Ad Age (reg req): Sony Pays $25,000 a
Month for Gawker Blog. Sony Consumer Electronics e-Solutions Group
is the exclusive sponsor for the launch of LifeHacker, a blog that
goes live today about the software of personal gadgetry by Gawker
Media, according to the online company. The deal, which also includes
placements on Gizmodo, Gawker's earlier gadget title, will cost Sony
in the range of $25,000 a month, according to a source close to the
deal. The sponsorship runs for about three months.
Well, there go the pay scales at Nick Denton's company...
I'm not nuts about the sole-sponsor ad model, but it's obviously going
to be a wave of the future in personal journalism.
Lo
ic also said that John Battelle mentioned in Davos that Boing
Boing was making between $20k-$30k a month.
That's serious money. No wonder Jason
Calacanis is complaining. He ain't making it.
Reinstalling MS Money
Reinstalling MS Money
09/15/2004 12:24 AMThe Best Lies Money Can Buy
The Best Lies Money Can Buy
05/12/2004 10:02 AMGeorge Bush has given al Qaeda and bin Laden exactly what they wanted.
Not only has he killed nearly 800 of our troops he will also have soon
blown through $300 billion of Americans' tax dollars to do so.
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Travelocity really doesn't want my money...
