On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) bl...

newVideoPlayer("/BloombergBlodgetSpitzer.flv", 506, 423,""); United by ignominy, former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget has forgiven Eliot Spitzer, the prosecutor who cost him his job. And he's getting softer on him by the day. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Blodget explains why he voted for S...

With the market taking its toll out of Apple’s share price, Henry Blodget thinks that in case you have the guts and of course cash to buy whole of Apple stocks at today’s $80 per share valuation – total value $52 billion, you would get your entire investment back in 7 years: Let’s say Ap...

I’ve recently taken notes on the top 5 things in my life which I believe are indicators of what the future looks like: Twinkle AppleTV Silicon Alley Insider Meetup / The Point / CarrotMob DonorsChoose & Kiva Twinkle No need to put the iPhone or Twitter on my list, because the Twinkle appli...

By Peter Kafka, Managing Editor, Silicon Alley Insider News Corp. execs did more than just admit that they weren’t going to hit their revenue goals for MySpace and Fox Interactive Media today. They also fessed up to another open secret: Selling ads on social networks is really difficult. How d...

Memo to Yahoo from Microsoft: We will begin bombing in 30 minutes! Whether it is love-bombing or the other kind, it’s still a mystery to BoomTown. But, according to sources close to Microsoft, as early as today, sometime after the market closes, might be when it renders its decision on the nex...

By Peter Kafka, Managing Editor, Silicon Alley Insider Newsflash, courtesy of PR agency Edelman: Young people don’t feel warmly about the music industry, presumably because they are harshing their mellow and trying to stop them from pirating music. Leave aside the dubiousness of a PR agency te...

photo by: Kirk Tanner Hardly. Hank Williams over at Silicon Alley Insider has a guest post up about how VCs are ruining the online tech economy by fueling free services, wrecking it for small and/or premium services. Matthew Ingram has a response out that resonates much more closely with how I feel....

c|net News.com [Editor's Note: Click on link above for video] I guess it was impossible to shake off that South by Southwest geek-turned-rock-star fever. On Wednesday night, New York's new-media nerds had no problem taking center stage at a Chinatown......

What is Michael Arrington smoking? His self-indulgent fantasy: All the bloggers should band together into a "dream team," owning equity in the joint venture. "Someone needs to pony up a big round of financing around an existing blog, or perhaps a new entity, and then start rolling them up into a big...