Biz+Tech

This Page will point you towards past blog posts that are business and or technology related.

6/28/09- Freddy Adu – My Scapegoat for Today’s Loss

6/15/09- Blogs With Balls – A Turning Point for Sports 2.0

6/15/09- Blogs With Balls Interview with Kyle Bunch

6/10/09- Global Sports Fraternity

6/2/09- Something is Better than Nothing

5/26/09- Kobe vs. Lebron is about to become Dan vs. Dave 2.0 in Marketing Fail

5/12/09- Where Twitter Has Value

5/10/09- VC’s Love Humor Websites

5/9/09- Old Media vs. New Media

5/6/09- Game Respects Game – Gawker’s Ad Sales Promo Video

5/5/09- Bleacher Report + CBS = NFL Correspondent Network

5/5/09- Online Content Sponsorship – Sometimes Good, Sometimes God Awful

4/30/09- Mottram to SB Nation, ESPN and More Idiotry

4/21/09- Viva Bloguin!

4/19/09- ESPN Whiffs on Blog Buzz Feature Before Making Amends

4/13/09- Techcrunch Growing Like Crazy but Still Not Venture Backed?

4/8/09- Tesla vs. Fisker…Will Either Win?

4/6/09- Aww…Truth in Advertising

4/3/09- ESPN and Disney Getting their Youtube…Hulu Soon?

4/2/09- Big Day for Web 2.0

3/31/09- Jealous of Wozniak and Crippled by the Economy, Tech Turns to Chippendales

3/31/09- Another Startup Incubator….This Time in South Carolina

3/27/09 – Another startup seed program launches in Austin

3/25/09- VC Backed Startup Programs all the rage

3/22/09- DirectTV Reups with Sunday Ticket

3/15/09- Fox Rumored to be Selling BCS Rights to ESPN

3/14/09- Is the Twitter Fad Dead Now that Meeker has joined

3/15/09- CBS= March Madness Enablers

3/10/09- 3 Random Signs Facebook Could Become a Fortune 500 Company

3/2/09- Daily Show Satirizes Twitter

3/9/09- Online advertising part 3…(Advertisers Trying to be more disruptive)

3/9/09- Online Advertising part 2 (Axe and College Humor= Sponsorship done right)

3/9/09- Online advertising part 1 (SB Nation Dumps Federated for Brash)

3/8/09- The Basketball Jones Demo Reel

3/6/09 – Carl’s JR Does Viral Right with Rob Drydek

3/4/09- Daily Show Satirizes Twitter

3/1/09- Twitter CEO, Evan Williams, on Charlie Rose

2/27/09- Sb Nation Partners with Yahoo

2/26/09- I Think its fairly obvious TechCrunch is soliciting Investors right now

2/20/09- My New Job and a movie recommendation

2/17/09- A Positive Story Wrapped in a Economy Sucks Shell

2/16/09- I get involved in the infamous Twitter Rejection Email Fiasco

2/14/09- Twitter Gets 35 Million and Helps Shaq and Kobe Reconcile

2/14/09- Fow Owned Scout.com Settles Lawsuit with Publishers

2/10/09- MTV Trying To Reinvigorate/Reenergize With Fleet of New Reality Shows

2/9/09- Steve Wozniak Back in the Game and Dancing with the Stars

2/7/09- The New Thing in Advertising: Making Horrible Commercials Works!

2/6/09- Michael Lewis= New Ben Koo Hero

2/2/09- Comcast Accidentally Airs Porn During Super Bowl

2/1/09- Super Bowl Thoughts, Santonio Holmes, and best Commercial

1/25/09- Wasting Some Time on Obamiconme.com

1/23/09- Five Things that Blow My Mind About this Economy

1/28/09- 5 Things that blow my mind about this recession

1/26/09- NFL Network may Partner with Fox and MWC looks for BCS Love

1/25/09- New Yelp Iphone Commercial Makes Skinner Happy

1/21/09- CNBC’s Bob Pisani Knows How to fix Economy

1/20/09- California Unemployment =Modern Day Bread Lines

1/20/09- Sacramento Kings- Bad at Basketball, Good at Viral

1/19/09- State of the Blogosphere- Traditional Media

1/15/09- Microsoft Songsmith- The worst advertised product ever

1/13/09- New Richter Scales Parody Rings True for Silicon Valley

1/8/09- New thing in advertising….Embracing the down economy

1/15/09- Nike Does Viral Videos Right

1/5/09- Viacom sticks it to Time Warner

12/22/08- Vudu Labs= Basketball Jones on my big screen

12/19/08- I am Unemployed….

12/16/08- Youtube- Where Mocking Downtrodden Football Programs Happens

12/14/08- Why Linkedin is Awesome and other Random Updates

12/10/08- Office Hazing of FTR Continues

11/18/08- Why Its Sweet to work at Yardbarker

11/17/08- ESPN To get BCS rights away from Fox

11/10/08- Digg Store Opens. Kevin Rose’s Cold Mocks Him on Twitter

11/9/08- Tesla Gets Funding, Technology and the Election, and Iphone= More Reliable

10/28/08- Bleacher Report, ESPN Snubs Yardbarker

10/16/08- RIP IPhone Hello 3G

10/15/08- Lemon Propel

10/13/08- Vudu Ups Its Offering with HDX

10/10/08- Hulu – Raising Arizona

10/8/08- 2 Exciting Interviews

10/7/08- VC’s Know Viral Hilarity

10/7/08- The Election Goes Viral with Youtube and Vudu

10/5/08- 60 Minutes Coverage of Tesla Motors

9/25/08- VC’s doubling down on Obama and Digg

9/23/08- San Jose Tesla Motors Facility

9/23/08- Blog World

9/8/08- EA and Tiger Woods Rubik’s Cube

8/26/08- Thoughts on BTN, Exiled, Righteous Kill, and Vudu

8/22/08- Deadline Looming for Big Ten Network and Cable Operators

8/19/08- Time Warner Feels Big Ten’s Wrath

8/12/08- Vudu turns to Porn when backed into a corner

8/10/08- The Value of Yelp

8/5/08- LG Netflix and Blu Ray player is “game changer”

7/30/08- DirectTV and the Search for an Apartment

7/28/08- Hulu Finds Out Sex Sells, No Google Deal For Digg

7/23/08- Digg Rumored to be close to being Acquired by Google

7/18/08- Facebook has a rare outage

7/14/08- Whining Wednesday (Yahoo, Etrade, ESPN the magazine all suck)

7/13/08- Fox and BCS Broadcast rights= A match made in Hell

7/13/08- Google releasing a new phone, 3G Iphone release snafu, Microsoft and Yahoo foreplay gets rough

7/7/08- Sony Losing Money on PS3…Does it Matter?

7/5/08- Cool YouTubes… The website is Down and Sweet Race

7/3/08- Yardbarker CEO Pete Vlastelica Interview

7/1/08- Tuesday Ramblings (Twitter, Tesla, Yahoo, Yardbarker)

6/30/08- Governator Out Muscles Next Mexico for Tesla Production Facility

6/29/08 – Stephen A Smith, Heckled Back to Reality via Social Media

6/28/08- Can I get Hulu onto WordPress?

6/23/08- Tesla Motors seeking more funding, California High Speed Trains Proposal

6/21/08- VC Commentary on Billion Dollar Valuation

6/20/08- Matt Cohler Leaving Facebook for Benchmark Capital

6/19/08- Comcast and Big Ten Network Reach Agreement

6/15/08- Thoughts on Firefox, 3G Iphone, and Apple Store awesomeness

6/8/08- Oakland A’s earning my business

6/2/09- NHL Relegated on Versus Network Until 2011

6/3/08- Weezer Pokes fun of Youtube Sensations in New Video

5/27/08- LA- Where Silicon Valley Rolls out Luxury

5/23/08- The story behind Christian Lander and stuffwhitepeoplelike.com

5/21/08- Netflix’s first hardware box, CBS Buys CNET

5/15/08- Purchasing “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good”

5/12/08- Mac vs PC and WordPress.com and no advertising

5/8/08- Myspace implements captcha for comments

4/22/08- Tesla Motors and Boone Pickens Wind Farm

4/17/08- Microsoft Gets Pummeled on Youtube

4/6/08- Apple Iphone Bet Commercial

4/2/08- South Part Satirizes Youtube Celebrities

4/1/08- Silicon Valley/ Tech Industry Embrace April Fools

3/31/08- Iphone adds 3G to get to a more corporate audience

3/18/08- Hulu.com to have Itunes like impact for media companies

3/11/08- Iphone’s biggest drawback, lack of MMS and viewmymessage.com

2/25/08- Jonathan Coulton and I’m F_cking Ben Affleck on the way to internet stardom

2/21/08- Myspace an IT nightmare?

2/20/08- Generation Y Growing Weary of myspace and facebook?

2/16/08- Toshiba to Give up on HD DVD

1/27/08- WordPress.com/Automatic gain momentum with extra storage and $29 million in funding

1/23/08- Microsoft Sync System Bloopers

1/16/08- Apple TV to take on Vudu and Netflix

1/4/08- Warner Brothers Goes Blu Ray

1/3/07- Netflix partners with LG to make internet TV Set top Box

12/18/07- Advertisers just don’t understand: Commercials on Youtube is a Good thing

12/15/07 Vudu adds television shows and HD titles

12/10/07 HD DVD vs Blu Ray and Holiday Season Impact

11/20/07 Iphone commercial of the week (targeted at Blackberry owners)

11/16/07 DirectTV outmaneuvers cable companies

11/5/07 Vudu First impressions, who killed the electric car ramblings

10/29/07 Iphone vs PS3 Marketing Efforts

10/25/07 Vudu- On Demand movie box of the future

10/11/07 Showtime’s fabulously awesome online advertising campaign for Dexter

10/6/07 China’s Richest Person is…. young, female, and a buckeye

9/25/07 – My Apple Conversion (Iphone and Imac)

8/5/07 – Analysis of Yahoo acquisition or rivals.com

About Ben Koo

Owner and editor of @AwfulAnnouncing. Recovering Silicon Valley startup guy. Fan of Buckeyes, A's, dogs, naps, tacos. and the old AOL dialup sounds

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