Sep 03,2010

  • 11:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Looking forward to later in the month and hopefully news of an acquisition for WEBM. 2010 contnues strong for WEBM growth."
  • 11:56 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our fall lineup of tradeshows is strong and getting lots of registrants. www.mediabistro.com/events."
  • 11:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Samsung Galaxy tablet has lots of plusses including cell phone, camera, size in its favor over iPAD. Only downer is apps."
  • 11:53 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Jobs&Bezos go way back and continue to be the leading innovators. Nobody on the horizon comes near them."

Sep 01,2010

  • 10:13 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "AOL buys RallyUp. Reminds me of the old days of trying to play catch up. It is already too late to get into the location arena."
  • 09:59 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I bought another 17100 shares of WebMediaBrands stock yesterday. Form 4 will be filed shortly."

Aug 31,2010

  • 15:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "DealUnited has become a silver sponsor and exhibitor at VirtualGoodsSummit in SF in Oct. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."

Aug 30,2010

Aug 27,2010

Aug 25,2010

  • 16:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SemanticWebSummit has Rachel Lovinger of Razorfish, Brooke Aker of ExpertSystem and Scott Brinker of IonInteractive as speakers."
  • 16:36 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Karl Mehta of Playspan, Tim Chang of NorwestVentures and Sam Shrauger of PayPal speaking at VirtualGoodsSummit. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp"
  • 16:34 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SmartPhoneGameSummit on 24 Sept has PeterFarago of Flurry as a speaker. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp & David Helgason of UnityTechnologies."
  • 11:30 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "PayPal will be exhibiting at VirtualGoodsSummit in SF Oct 12-13. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp"

Aug 24,2010

Aug 23,2010

  • 15:59 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Jenny Zaino with analysis of FederateMedia's buy of TextDigger. Another positive sign for future of semantic Web. www.semanticweb.com."
  • 15:32 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @toddogasawara: Coming up on tweet 9000. Should it be something profound? :-)Todd is worth reading."

Aug 19,2010

  • 15:41 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "AllFacebook.com has 90,000 followers on Facebook! Growing fast. Sign up at www.allfacebook.com."
  • 15:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @Mediabistro: The Facebook Places privacy settings you need to know: http://mbist.ro/cFxkFe (via @AllFacebook)"
  • 15:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Or at least run against Gillibrand."
  • 15:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Morning Joe Scarborough makes more sense than most about USA foreign policy. He ought to run against Chuck Schumer for Senate in NY."
  • 15:17 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Young has interesting platform called Publish2 --- trying to destroy Associated Press. Could well do it."
  • 15:16 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Met Robt Young who sold Delphi to Rupert M in the early 1990s. Quite fascinating story."
  • 15:15 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The Internet Is Dead article is such hokum. Nothing but attention grabber. The Internet is at best at adolescent stage today."
  • 15:13 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We are zeroing in on an acquisition. no guarantees that we complete any deal. And yet another is brewing."
  • 14:39 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We refinanced our debt. Big drop from 4.7% to 3.4%. Biz is growing and cost of debt dropping."
  • 00:48 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@jonfine now it is a magazine but soon it will be a journal."

Aug 18,2010

  • 17:12 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Newsweek keeps losing top writers. Soon it will be a quaint journal losing millions a month."
  • 17:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocailGamingSummit New York gains SuperRewards as an exhibitor. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 17:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SuperRewards is a Gold Sponsor and exhibitor at London Virtual Goods Summit in Nov. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 12:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "And get ready for a bunch of new free services from AllFacebook and Nick O'Neill. http://bit.ly/81HpK."
  • 12:53 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Subscribe annually to http://bit.ly/9OGoVC and attend any of our social media shows as part of the sub to SocialTimesPro. Wow."
  • 12:51 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We have added several more bloggers to AllFacebook and SocialTimes. Mediabistro is leading the way in overall social media coverage."
  • 12:51 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Check out the SocialTimesPro research offering. http://bit.ly/9OGoVC. Wagner James Au &others analyze Facebook, virtual goods, social games"

Aug 17,2010

Aug 16,2010

Aug 13,2010

Aug 12,2010

  • 21:30 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Good reading @mbstartups. Features of Internet startups several times a week."

Aug 11,2010

  • 23:24 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "As promised, we delivered 72% year over year revenue growth at WebMediaBrands through 6 months."
  • 23:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I saw a preview of The Pat Tillman Story -documentary. Fabulous. Amazing how the USArmy tried to dupe America about Tillman's death."

Aug 10,2010

Aug 09,2010

Aug 06,2010

  • 15:17 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Hope to have an acquisition completed by next month. Very exciting."
  • 15:16 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Social Ad Summit program for NYC Oct 1 almost complete. http://bit.ly/6eg9lm"
  • 15:15 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "AllFacebook.com will be increasing coverage on data and apps in coming weeks. No need to pay for info you will get for free."
  • 15:15 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialTimesPro research should launch next week. In depth coverage of Facebook, Virtual Goods and Social Gaming."

Aug 05,2010

  • 22:53 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@marktis It works right now but my point is that long term it will not continue to work."
  • 16:56 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I have resigned from the board of DealNews.Com for professional reasons. More later."
  • 16:48 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @SocialTimes: New blog post: Announcing The 2010 Social Ad Summit http://mbist.ro/a2S2ws"
  • 16:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Observation: Many blogs try to capture readership with provocative headlines. This model is doomed to fail in coming months. Tiresome."

Aug 04,2010

  • 23:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We are announcing our second quarter financials after market on August 11th. We will have a conference call at 5pm."
  • 23:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "As we head into August our job board remains strong. http://bit.ly/I6FAZ."
  • 23:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Google makes another move into social games with purchase of Slide. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 16:27 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our GalleyCat.com and eBookNewser blogs are growing rapidly. Bodes well for our eBookSummit conference in December. http://bit.ly/I6FAZ."
  • 16:24 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Looks like Mediabistro has the best new events so far this year in the USA and more are coming in the fourth quarter."
  • 16:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We have yet another winning paid event based on today's turnout in NYC. Mediabistro Career Circus!"
  • 15:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @evenyc: At mediabistro Career Circus in NYC with The Opportunities Project. Inspiring tips and anecdotes from media stars! #mbcareer"
  • 15:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "AllFacebook.Com 's Facebook page is 71.000+ strong! You can join in here. http://bit.ly/81HpK."
  • 15:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @jackycarter: Learning a lot at the @mediabistro career circus."
  • 08:35 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Having the corner bookstore again could be the first time the Net age has restored an old time business? http://myloc.me/a72tA"
  • 08:33 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Sale of barnes-noble paves way for retun of importance of the mom-pop or cornee bookstore. http://myloc.me/a72c4"
  • 00:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "On the other hand Newsweek can be a vibrant and valuable Website. But is the site worth the $50 million in obligations? No."
  • 00:07 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Reading quotes from new owner of Newsweek is pathetic. What good will good biz practices do for a magazine that is no longer needed?"

Aug 02,2010

  • 23:53 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Best bet on Newsweek is to use the print to promote the web site for another year or so and then fold the magazine."
  • 23:51 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Newsweek is toast other than Newsweek.com. New owner will play with it for a year and then fold the magazine or make it a monthly."
  • 16:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Trying to figure out how Mashable took the wrong turn. Cettainly it is not devoted to SocialMedia anymore."
  • 16:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Ridiculous article in WSJ by Funt on paid content. His examples are pointless and clueless. Same old rubbish."
  • 16:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Closing in on an acquisition. Of course might not take place but stay tuned."
  • 16:18 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Brian Ward on AllFacebook has his top 10 Facebook pages for the week feature running. http://bit.ly/81HpK."
  • 16:18 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialTimes.com is jumping in traffic and uniques! Clearly now the number one read for social media doings. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 16:17 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@jeloi That is what makes America great! Now we have tired blood and have become bloated. we need true citizen politicians."

Jul 29,2010

  • 16:33 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@jeloi New people, new ideas and new energy. Now pols spend most of their time trying to get reelected."
  • 15:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Rangel is another example of why the USA needs term limits. After a few terms these pols feel entitled to do anything they desire."
  • 15:17 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Interview of Chris Lewis about significance of Google acquistion of Metaweb http://bit.ly/57onqC. See how semanticWeb will change Google."
  • 15:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Observation: Yahoo is wasting money having poster ads at NYC bus stops. Yahoo has to make it work virally not the old fashioned way!"
  • 12:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Gossip, hearsay and observation make me think that Android phones are about to capture smartphone buyers' imagination."
  • 12:33 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @slhamlet: How to save Second Life in seven easy steps: http://bit.ly/dpNY10 #SL"
  • 11:56 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Playdom CEO is featured speaker at our VirtualGoodsSummit in SF October 12-13. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 11:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Kindle and competitive devices are taking the "razor - razor blade" model."
  • 11:52 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Prediction- In three years Kindle will be selling for $19.95 or it will be free if one subscribes to "x" number of book downloads per year."

Jul 28,2010

  • 15:27 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "thanks, @emilylawi! RT@laureltouby: new service, Freelance Connect, you post projects/bid on projects. Pretty cool. http://bit.ly/9gyghy"
  • 14:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "AllFacebook.com has added several new bloggers. http://bit.ly/81HpK."
  • 14:14 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "eBookSummit' coming in Dec in NYC. This is the number one conference covering the new age of publishing. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 12:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Wagner James Au's first research report on virtual goods coming in September from http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 12:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Playdom sale to Disney bullish for Virtual Goods. Here are the leading trade shows for virtual goods. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."

Jul 26,2010

  • 14:56 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Former Pres. of Mexico, V Fox calls for legalizing drugs to end violence in Mexico. No politician would have the guts to go for this plan."
  • 14:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The build up in Afghanistan and in Vietnam very similar. Deployment of troops on stupid outposts the same. We have dumb generals."
  • 14:50 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "AllFacebook;s Facebook page is near 70,000 strong. You can join here. www.allfacebook.com."
  • 14:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Wagner James Au has started posting on www.socialtimes.com. And his first virtual goods research report comes in Sept for SocialTimesPro."
  • 13:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Good article on Zynga and Virtual Goods in NYT on Sunday by Miguel helft Our Virtual Goods shows are coming in SF and London this fall."
  • 13:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our London VirtualGoodsSummit now has Sometrics as another exhibitor. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 10:25 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "just finished Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. Fabulous novel on Vietnam. Now re-reading Dispatches by Herr. Also about Vietnam."
  • 10:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Google buy of Metaweb discussed on semanticWeb.com. This is a semantic web move by Google pure and simple. http://bit.ly/57onqC."
  • 09:59 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "David Steinberger CEO of comiXology, a comic app maker for mobile is speaking at ThinkMobile. http://bit.ly/14oBV."
  • 09:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "London Hotel in LA has dishonest ad for hotel rate on its homepage. The lower rate is not available for months."

Jul 23,2010

  • 12:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I am seeing Tameka Kee in LA today. Tameka is writing research for our new SocialTimesPro service starting in September."
  • 12:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Met with Nick O'Neill in LA last night. Nick has some interesting new services shortly coming on AllFacebook.com. http://bit.ly/81HpK.ho"
  • 12:52 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We are working on a few acquisition possibilities. Nothing set for sure, but on the prowl."
  • 12:52 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Megan O'Neill with fascinating post on how Twitter was used by the IDF to rescue people in Haiti after the earthquake. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."

Jul 22,2010

  • 14:33 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "First on @TVNewser: Martin Bashir Leaving ABC for MSNBC; GMA Weekend Anchor Bill Weir Moves to 'Nightline' http://mbist.ro/92GkqS"
  • 14:32 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Skipping publishers, Amazon inks exclusive deal to publish 20 eBooks by famous Wylie Agency authors: http://mbist.ro/9vK62G"
  • 13:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "On my favorite airline ---VirginAmerica to LA for meetings today and tomorrow."
  • 13:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We will shortly be announcing a new exciting blog similar to our TVNewser but a different field."
  • 13:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We have an alliance with the Miami Ad School which means an expansion of our online education biz. Watch us grow!"
  • 00:16 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "British PM David Cameron flew commercial from England to WashDC!! Quite amazing. The guy is a real leader."
  • 00:13 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @Mediabistro: Mediabistro, Miami Ad School Form Education Partnership http://bit.ly/c0Y7PD"
  • 00:02 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "My Yearbook is now a sponsor of our Virtual Goods Summit in Oct in SF. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."

Jul 21,2010

  • 15:25 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Check our StockLogos.com site. a small business but starting to grow. This is a user generated content biz. Reaching critical mass."
  • 11:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Announcing our new conference -DigitalPrivacyForum in NYC on 2 Dec. First of its kind. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 11:16 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Economy baromerter: Our job board looks strong again this week. http://bit.ly/I6FAZ."
  • 11:12 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The first FreemiumSummit in NYC has Gregg Spiridellis, CEO of JibJab as a speaker. Oct 25. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 11:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Niren Hiro the CEO of Crowdstar is confirmed as a speaker for VirtualGoodsSummit in SF in Oct. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp. Also Mick Bobroff."
  • 11:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Alicia Navarro the CEO of Skimlinks and Larry Weintraub, CEO Franscape will be speaking at our Social Ad Summit in NYC in October."
  • 11:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Jeff Mirman from NBA Digital is a speaker at SocialAdSummit in NYC on Oct 1. http://bit.ly/aRXdWX."
  • 11:07 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Steve Beck of Organic is speaking at the NYC Social Ad Summit on October 1. Steve is head of strategy. http://bit.ly/aRXdWX."
  • 11:06 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Rana Sobhany, the first iPAD DJ, is speaking at ThinkMobile in SF in Sept. http://bit.ly/14oBV."

Jul 19,2010

  • 13:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The Mediabistro job board continues to show strength. good sign for the media and Internet media industry. And good for our stockholders."
  • 11:31 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Check out the relaunch of FreelanceConnect today. FC concentrates on media and design freelance jobs. http://bit.ly/4DuA7e."
  • 11:29 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialTimes is clearly becoming the blog for social media. The best vertical coverage of social media topics. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 11:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "WSJ article today social media advertising. Big boost for upcoming SocialAdSummit coming in Oct to NYC. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."

Jul 15,2010

  • 11:52 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @toddogasawara: RIM BlackBerry in a Long Slow Fade (like Palm OS, Symbian & Windows Mobile)? http://bit.ly/aIxV67"
  • 11:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Mediagazer has 4 of our blogs on its leaderboard as top media news sites-TVNewser, WebNewser, FishbowlNY, PRNewser. http://bit.ly/I6FAZ."
  • 11:29 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "You can attend SmartPhoneGamesSummit and our ThinkMobile events in Sept in SF at a discount if you attend both. Sept 23-24."
  • 11:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SmartphoneGamesSummit in SF has the total program completed. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 11:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I will be in Los Angeles on the 22nd-24th. I will be at the London Hotel in West Hollywood."
  • 11:02 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our SF ThinkMobile event in September has the program posted. http://bit.ly/14oBV. Terrific prgram at a reasonable price."
  • 10:59 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We just filed an 8k announcing our new auditors replacing GrantThornton with Rothstein Kass. We maintain quality auditing and save big $$."

Jul 14,2010

  • 22:30 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our new social media research and analysis biz will be called either SocialTimesPro or SocialTimesPlus. Launch about two week from now."
  • 22:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Readership of our GalleyCat blog is growing rapidly thanks to Jason Boog's inventive ways of creating community. http://bit.ly/2dxDtf."
  • 16:01 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @mediabeat: New vid: Dennis Crowley on What Foursquare Learned from Dodgeball, Other Social Media Companies http://bit.ly/bEAJJA"
  • 16:00 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @toddogasawara: Rumor: Spring 2011 Launch of iPad with 7-inch OLED Screen? http://bit.ly/aLGmWb Really want a more "carryable" iPad"
  • 15:58 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @Mediabistro: Our advertising blog @AgencySpy just added two new writers. Meet them here: http://mbist.ro/btSOaZ"
  • 15:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nadine Cheung has joined us to blog about media jobs and Kenneth Musante is blogging about start ups for us."
  • 15:56 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Dianna Dilworth joined us as a blogger for eBookNewser. http://bit.ly/8GaK0a."
  • 15:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our new startup blog posts can be found at http://bit.ly/9yXyYb. Also our new job posts http://bit.ly/cQTw5H."

Jul 13,2010

  • 10:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Android apps are growing fast. Android is easier to learn than Apple iOS for developers."
  • 10:18 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Mark Veverka in Barrons has interview with Ed Snyder. Predicts that Android could topple iPHONE because of The Cloud v. Apple closed system"
  • 09:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @laureltouby: Interviewing author Sarah Ellison for @MediaBeat Wed. Send Q's re: War at the WSJ or about her process. Thanks!!"
  • 09:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@Mediabistro: Our one-day Multmedia Intensive starts 7/14 in NY. Use code TW6011 and save $75. http://mbist.ro/coN8Ng /via @mediabistroEDU"

Jul 12,2010

  • 14:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@seandewinter What did you want to know about Grant Thornton?"
  • 14:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "BarryDiller rightly attacks Google move to travel. Google doing this proves it knows its growth cannot be sustained."

Jul 09,2010

  • 15:34 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Facebook buying Nextstop travel service is another example of how horizontal services have to worry about growth. And move vertically."
  • 15:26 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We had 20 or so of our bloggers into lunch in NYC this week. Great bunch of dedicated professionals with lots of ideas."
  • 15:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @allnick: New post: Meet The Social Times Team: Hi, I'm Megan & I'm A Web Video Addict http://bit.ly/cYCEru"
  • 15:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialResearch, our new research brand, will launch with reports from Tameka Kee and Wagner James Au in September. Service is monthly."
  • 15:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Tameka Kee is joining us as our second research analyst for our new SocialResearch operation. She will cover Facebook."
  • 15:17 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Painful to watch our stock price decline when business is quite strong for us. Just the ups and downs of having a public company."

Jul 08,2010

  • 15:29 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We should be naming our new auditor shortly."
  • 15:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our job board has started July with very strong job postings."
  • 15:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Norwest Venture Partners is now the VC sponsor of our Virtual Goods Summit coming in November in SF. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."

Jul 07,2010

  • 17:06 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @Mediabistro: We check in with Foursquare's co-founder and CEO @dens in today's So What Do You Do? interview http://mbist.ro/amT1kH"
  • 17:06 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "What are the best book club resources on Twitter? @galleycat is building a directory. Add your favorites: http://mbist.ro/c4lV2C"
  • 17:04 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We should shortly have another analyst to name and work with Wagner James Au on our new SocialResearch business unit. More later."
  • 16:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We are hitting social media coverage hard at SocialTimes. We have more vertical coverage of social media than any other blog."
  • 16:43 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Branding is being covered profusely on SocialTimes by James Nichols. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 16:43 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Andrew Feinberg is covering privacy and government interactions for SocialTimes. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 16:42 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Neil Glassman is now writing blog posts for SocialTimes. http://bit.ly/66AobQ. Concentration is on social marketing."
  • 09:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We dismissed Grant Thornton as our auditor. A new firm will be named soon. If you want the inside and insight on Grant Thornton contact me"

Jul 06,2010

  • 12:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Mexico's drug wars would end and billions would be saved if drugs were legalized. Same for the USA. This is no different than prohibition."
  • 12:42 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @mediabeat: Here more from @carleyroney at @Mediabistro Career Circus August 4 in NYC."
  • 12:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Playfish founder, Kristian Segerstrale is keynoting at London SocialGamingSummit in Nov. http://bit.ly/I6FAZ."
  • 12:39 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Christian Hernandez, Facebook's head biz dev, will be a keynote speaker at London VirtualGoodsSummit. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 12:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Google vertical move means that Google is concerned that its horizontal search biz can no longer grow at great rates. Thus vertical moves."
  • 12:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Google move to travel is pure vertical play. Vertical coverage has always been the key to Internet success. More...."

Jul 01,2010

  • 11:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I bought some more shares of WEBM today. I like our prospects so I am a buyer in a down market."
  • 11:39 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RockYou has signed on as an exhibitor for our London SocialGaming/VirtualGoods Summit in November. http://bit.ly/6eg9lm"

Jun 30,2010

  • 12:32 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Google plays ball with China -why? As Google's stock price falls becomes imperative to make Wall Street happy. $$$ fron China are needed."

Jun 29,2010

  • 20:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Wagner James Au is pumped to start doing research reports for our new SocialResearch service coming in September. More news coming soon."
  • 20:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nick O'Neill is developing some new features and services for AllFacebook.com."
  • 20:35 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "#socialdev has a variety of developer jobs mentioned."
  • 20:34 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialTimes has some great analysis of the talks today at SocialDeveloperSummit #socialdev. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 20:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Congratulations to all bloggers who get selected as "BestBlogs" by Time. Tough on those picked as over rated."
  • 20:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I have met more and more people who have stopped flying JetBlue and now take VirginAmerica due to WiFi on VA and not on JetBlue."
  • 20:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Headinb back via VirginAmerica to NYC from SF after highly successful SocialDeveloperSummit."
  • 14:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "#socialdev. Tremendous electricity with attendees. Interedting that few have iPADS."
  • 12:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our SocialDeveloperSummit has a good crowd. Looks to be a longterm success. Lots of buzz. #socialdev. http://myloc.me/8AT2u"

Jun 28,2010

  • 17:52 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nokia and RIM face being "Delled" by iPHONE and Droid phones. Hard to believe this can happen, but it appears it is taking hold."
  • 17:48 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Sen. Byrd's death makes the case for term limits. He served nobly, but should have retired years ago. 3 senate terms should be law."
  • 17:46 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I am now in San Francisco at the Palace Hotel on 2 New Montgomery. Looking forward to SocialDeveloperSummit tomorrow."
  • 14:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@ilusoperdido Actually SOX was ruled invalid on certain areas. They should throw away the whole act."
  • 14:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our MORNING NEWS FEED now has over 160,000 daily readers. Quite a powerful following! And it is growing rapidly."
  • 12:46 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @toddogasawara: Amazon Re-inventing Ebooks & Starting the Revolution on the iPad & iPhone http://bit.ly/9oYyb2 #ebooks"
  • 12:43 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Seems to me that our SocialTimes.com is now more about social media than Mashable? http://bit.ly/66AobQ. More features coming."
  • 12:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Mediabistro's FishbowlDC blog gets mention in NYTimes today for breaking a story. http://bit.ly/bP6e2R."
  • 12:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@tom_peters Matterhorn is fabulous! Glad you mentioned it."
  • 12:00 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "TIME releases 2010 best blogs list. @engadget and @consumerist among best. @mashable deemed "overrated." http://mbist.ro/9LYiMl"
  • 11:59 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I am now flying VirginaAmerica to SF for SocialDeveloperSummit taking place tomorrow at the SheratonPalace. We have a good crowd coming."
  • 11:58 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SarbanesOxley has not prevented any fraud and did not help one iota in preventing the Great Recession. It has been a huge waste."
  • 11:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "US Supreme Court rules SarbanesOxley is not valid. Congress now can get rid of it forever or try to fix it. More..."

Jun 26,2010

  • 05:05 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Henry Kissinger had a great column in the INTL Herlad Trib about the need for a defined Afghanistan policy for the USA."
  • 05:00 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Jason Boog at http://bit.ly/2dxDtf about eBooks and libraries."
  • 05:00 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Todd Ogasawara of http://bit.ly/7I7fjA nailed CNET on the day it erroneously reported on so called dangerous Android Apps."

Jun 25,2010

  • 17:24 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We just signed a deal with Maimi Ad School to develop a range of online education courses. We think this very exciting."
  • 17:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I return to NYC tomorrow after a few days in London and several places in Italy. Monday and Tuesday finds me in SF for our SocialDevSummit."
  • 17:11 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Wagner James Au has joined with us to start a research service covering Virtual Goods. We launch September 1. More coming."
  • 17:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialDeveloperSummit in SF next Tuesday at Sheraton Palace will be packed. http://bit.ly/beZiaM."
  • 17:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Neil Vidyarthi writes his usual good stuff in this week in social games. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 17:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Megan O'Neil good read on this week in viral video http://bit.ly/66AobQ."

Jun 24,2010

  • 16:53 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nabeel Hyatt of Conduit Labs and Cary Rosenzewig of IMVU are speaking at our London SocialGamingSummit/VirtualGoodsSummit in November."
  • 16:52 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialGamingSummit/VirtualGoodsSummit in London in Nov has Kristian Segerstrale of Playfish and Christian Hernandez of Facebook as speakers"
  • 16:45 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RealGifts is exhibiting at the SocialDeveloperSummit in SF next week on Tuesday. http://bit.ly/9jDUVx."
  • 12:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @Mediabistro: Read the World's Longest Literary Remix, novel entirely rewritten by dedicated @GalleyCat readers: http://mbist.ro/cNFcTi"

Jun 23,2010

Jun 22,2010

  • 14:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "finishing last tweet --Pat Tillman was the last true American hero. What an amazing fellow."
  • 14:26 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "McChrystal mess is interesting. And do not forget he was part of the Pat Tillman cover up. Tillman was the last"
  • 14:24 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Going to Social Developer Summit next Tues in SF? Check out the technical program produced by @mediabistro: http://bit.ly/dyTAcR #socialdev"
  • 14:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialDeveloperSummit is picking up. Should be a great show in SF next Tuesday at SheratonPalace. http://bit.ly/9jDUVx."
  • 14:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We are working on some possible acquisitions again. Not sure we can get anything done but we are giving it a try."
  • 14:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "If you get to Calpabio, Italy check out the Nikki de Saint Phalle Tarot sculpture garden. An amazing artistic achievement!"
  • 14:18 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Interesting about the trend toward free WiFi in airports and even Starbucks copying McDonalds. So WiFi becomes a loss leader for companies."

Jun 21,2010

  • 18:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Megan O'Neill has great posts on social video topics. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 17:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I return and go to SF for SocialDeveloperSummit on 29 June. http://bit.ly/9jDUVx."
  • 17:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "My posts for the rest of this week are from Porto Ercole, Italy. I return at the end of the week and then to SF for"
  • 17:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@frankm Disagree! Apps are the difference. There will be no apps for the other ereaders. Buyers want apps and options."
  • 17:36 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@marktis Indeed! This is similar to the birth of PC brands in the 80s. They were comets and died quickly. Remember Osborne and the Adam?"
  • 17:35 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Conway Chen of Booyah and Andrew Lacy of Tapulous are newly announced speakers for our SmartphoneGameSummit. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 17:32 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Anand Iyer of Microsoft is a newly announced speaker at our ThinkMobile conference in SF in Sept. http://bit.ly/14oBV."
  • 17:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Amazon and BN dropping ereader prices shows the pressure from iPAD. I doubt neither has an ebook reader in three years or less."

Jun 17,2010

  • 13:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Heading for some RandR in Porto Ercole, Italy for the weekend and early next week. Then on to SF for our SocialDeveloperSummit."
  • 13:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I am in London now. Great weather and good meetings all day. Wonderful service flying British Air. When will they have WiFi?"
  • 13:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We have only just begun building http://bit.ly/66AobQ to be the number one blog for social media. We are staffing up and adding features."
  • 13:35 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our SocialTimes now has vertical coverage of marketing, video, social gaming and virtual goods. Socail Times is THE place for social media"

Jun 16,2010

  • 16:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our SocialTimes.com is adding some new features later today. http://bit.ly/66AobQ."
  • 16:39 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@strukhoff Agreed. But this is the evolution of information dissemination."
  • 16:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nanigan is a new exhibitor and sponsor of SocialDeveloperSummit in San Francisco on 29 June. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."

Jun 15,2010

  • 14:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Today we started coverage of new media startups across several of our 15 blogs. For PR send to startups@mediabistro.com."
  • 14:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@pattiedesign print still has its place."
  • 14:36 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Softbank-Zynga deal another big plus for social gaming's future. Softbank looks a this as it did Yahoo back in mid 1990s."
  • 12:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I will be in London, England on Thursday and Friday for meetings."
  • 12:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Apple turns on its game center. This will be big for social gaming."
  • 12:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Hear st unloads loser SKIFF to NewsCorp. If SKIFF was a winner, why would Hearst sell? NewsCorp cannot figure out the Internet."
  • 12:05 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "NewsCorp purchase of SKIFF from Hearst: Hearst is bailed out by yet another silly NewsCorp purchase. If SKIFF a winner, would Hearst sell?"

Jun 14,2010

  • 15:51 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Newspaper paywall theory forgets main point: people under 30 do not read newspapers and do not give a hoot about a journalist's background."
  • 15:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @SemanticWeb_com: Twitter Annotations: Could SEO Be First The Killer App? - Semantic Web http://bit.ly/b4otZ4 We got this covered!"
  • 15:14 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @allnick: Wow ... over 580 RSVPs to our DC cocktail event this evening ... hope to see you there!!! http://bit.ly/9VsLdr"
  • 15:11 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "JournalismOnline (Brill -NewsCorp) might be right up there with Brill's CLEAR. I want my CLEAR refund!!!"
  • 15:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "i am more confused abt News Corp's digital strategy now: is news where it is pegging its digital future? that's scary. #pcbuzz"
  • 15:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "More info on Smartphones Game Summit http://bit.ly/awLiRy."
  • 15:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Smartphone Games Summit has Hill Ferguson of Zong, Ron Hirson of Boku, Michael Chang of Greystripe amd Charles Ju of Playmesh speaking."
  • 15:07 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "ThinkMobile has another theme too -- How biz is using mobile to innovate in unexpected ways. http://bit.ly/14oBV."
  • 15:06 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "ThinkMobile conf in SF in Sept theme: how organizations are using mobile to reinvest their businesses. http://bit.ly/14oBV."
  • 15:04 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "NewsCorp buying part of Crovitz-Brill startup is a bit of preaching to the choir on both sides. Might work out but we shall see."

Jun 10,2010

Jun 09,2010

  • 16:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @Mediabistro: Pictures from our Internet Week New York party last night are live on @FishbowlNY http://mbist.ro/dcqDTH #IWNY"
  • 14:56 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our job board at http://bit.ly/I6FAZ had a record day yesterday! Bodes well for the media industry -particularly online growth."
  • 12:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@dcarli quite an article! Not something I am really focusing on."
  • 12:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nadine Cheung is now posting about job opportunties on all of our blogs. She has a post on http://bit.ly/66AobQ today. Great opps here"
  • 12:45 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nadine Cheung is now posting about job opportunties on all of our blogs. She has a post on http://bit.ly/66AobQ today. Great opps here."
  • 12:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialGold is expanding and is now a sponsor of our SocialDeveloperSummit June 29 in SF at the Palace Hotel. http://bit.ly/9jDUVx."

Jun 08,2010

Jun 07,2010

  • 17:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Richard Waters and Josepeh Menn in FT today -- seminal article on how Google and Apple are at war and that MSFT is left behind. Good read."
  • 17:17 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Mediabistro announced the winners of the logo award contest. http://bit.ly/6yXwZI I like the snoot peacock best! This is an annual event."
  • 12:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Eric Savitz of Barrons says Yahoo wants to buy HuffingtonPost. What a mistake that would be."
  • 12:27 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@ferodynamics thx-missing the point here - Apple and MAC leads to iTUNES, iPAD, iPhone."
  • 11:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Seeing Jobs predict the death of the PC reminds me of Michael Dell predicting the death of the MAC back in the late 1990s."
  • 11:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Is Nielsen doing a better job than VNU did? I think NOT. Where is the innovation?"
  • 11:14 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "London, UK SGS/VirtualGoodsSummit has Paul LaFontaine of Playdom and Dennis Ryan of PopCap Games as speakers. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 11:12 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Also at SmartphoneGameSummit speaking - Tomoko Namba of DeNa and Lee Linden of Tapjoy. http://bit.ly/djKbHZ."
  • 11:11 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SmartphoneGamesSummit has Chris Williams, Playfirst, Marc Gumpinger, Scoreloop, Jason Citron, Aurora Feint. www.mediabistro.com/events"
  • 11:11 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SmartphoneGamesSummit has Chris Williams, Playfirst, Marc Gumpinger, Scoreloop, Jason Citron, Aurora Feint. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp"
  • 11:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "ThinkMobile conf Stephen Gillett, CTO Starbucks, Phil Libin, CEO Evernote, Ross Rubin, Industry Analytics(NPD). www.mediabistro.com/events."
  • 11:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Carley Roney is keynoting at our MediabistroCareerCircus Aug. 4 in NYC. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 11:07 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "SocialVideoBytes is now a sponsor of June 29th Social Developer Summit in SF. http://bit.ly/VB6Hp."
  • 08:02 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Josh Hemple in Fortune mag stating that Web 2.0 has jumped the shark. Nice run for Web 2.0."
  • 08:01 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Sale of ZiffDavis reminds of my article in 2000 predicting doom for WillisStein which paid $750m back then for the deal."
 
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