Reunion.com raises $25 million dollar. In an article from Red Herring, Amid all the widgets, mashups, video sharing, and complicated software applications angling for attention at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco Monday, there was a much more traditional social networking site―Reunion.com―that walked in with $25 million in new funding from Oak Ventures Partners.… Read more

I was able to take day to attend the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco this Monday. Overall, not only did the conference lack value but it also highlighted how entire Web 2.0 phenomenon lacks some grounding with reality. It’s was as if everyone in that conference didn’t experience the .com bubble bursting just… Read more

Earlier this week, Mozilla Labs announced that they will be embedding social networking in the Mozilla browser (sucks for Flock but they must has seen that coming). Enter “The Coop”, a Mozilla Labs project to experiment with adding social tools to the web browser. We want to create a fun and easy way to share… Read more

Hello Renato, The waiting’s over! Since we received your application to join the Joost beta test program, we’ve been very busy fine-tuning it for you.So here’s some good news: we’re now ready to expand our beta test program, and we’re delighted to invite you to join us. I finally got my beta account on Joost… Read more

One of the benefits of working for HP includes access to high power software executives. This past week I had an opportunity to have lunch with Russ Daniels, the CTO of HP Software. Or more specifically, Russ Daniels is vice president and chief technology officer of the Strategy and Technology Office within HP’s software business,… Read more

I live about 42 miles from the Mercury Interactive software campus and it will get further when we move to the HP offices in Cupertino in June. It takes me about 45 minutes to get to the office in the morning and about 1 hour and 15 minutes to get home in the evening. For… Read more

“Dude, check my twitter out. I’ve just updated it and it says that I’m telling you about Twitter. Now, I just updated it again that I’m done.” Twitter is the latest buzzword around this “Web 2.0” stuff and I don’t understand it. It allows users to “Micro-Blog”. A “Micro-blog” is a message less than 140… Read more

Today, Yahoo has announced that it will provide its Yahoo mail accounts unlimited storage. The media is reporting this move in preparation for the release of the iPhone while others say that its simply a move against the Google. Either way, I’m now starting a competition to find the largest Yahoo email boxes out there.… Read more

I stumbled upon an interesting article from earlier this year while surfing the web for venture capital links. There were a few points that I found very interesting. “Hardly a week goes by without a reminder of the ongoing vendor consolidation. Larger software companies have emerged as a new tier of active consolidators, including IBM,… Read more

Just as I post about Meebo, I realized I turned my back on Trillian by Cerulean Studios. Trillian was of the first centralized instant messanging tools that supported all of the major IM standards. I’ve been a committed user of the tool for several years now. It seems that they have a new project called… Read more

The co-founders of Flixster happen to be my friends and I couldn’t help but notice the post on Slashdot today about them. Flixster is a social networking site focused around movie reviews. The Slashdot post questions the ethics behind a feature Flixster has for getting friends on board. Basically, within Flixster you can input your… Read more

If you’re like me, you have a American Online, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ instant messaging accounts and have contacts on each that you still maintain. My contacts are grouped by the software product I was working on at the time. I find it funny that my American Online account was established so long ago, I… Read more

As I write this, Justin.tv has been streaming for 4 days, 23 hours and21 minutes. Yes, some moron named Justin has strapped a TV camera on his head and is streaming it on the internet for all to see, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He even posts his cell phone the web… Read more

Just the other day, I recieved the following email from the Joost website. Hi Renato Mascardo, This is just to let you know that we haven’t forgotten your request to try Joost. We’re now speeding up the process of adding testers and we’ll shortly be inviting everyone who has signed up to try Joost. This… Read more

This past week Island Odyssey went live with its beta site. Normally, I would not have noticed but my brother-in-law happens to be the “Chief of Staff” for the company. Island Odyssey combines the Web 2.0 social networking with travel agencies. In a recent article in the Oregon Daily Herald, Island Odyssey is a networking… Read more