WebMediaBrands CEO Alan Meckler
Nov 06,2009
- 12:13 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I know the economy stinks, but I only see great developments in the Web world-- much like 2002-03 when business started to percolate."
- 12:11 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our proxy for the Internet.com deal approval is in the mail. We will close around 30 Nov. Expect an acquisition from us about that date."
- 12:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Internet Industry... the Internet and its tangents (smartphones, ebooks, Web video etc.) will be the leader in growing the economy."
- 12:07 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Ad-Tech the tradeshow in NYC is thriving and hot. Ad-Tech demonstrates that the Internet industry is solid. The future is bright. More.."
Nov 05,2009
- 15:30 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@JoeNBC Jobs has been grand but Bezos in a way is even better."
- 15:18 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Fortune Small Business magazine will be closing. Another example of how the Web can best service a business vertical."
- 11:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I saw the Droid. Very nice. The flaw for me is that it is not a world phone. No switch from my Bberry Bold for now. Waiting for v. 2."
Nov 03,2009
- 20:43 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @ahoving: #Gamechanging Episode 2, with guest @alanmeckler, available on demand on #BlogTalkRadio - http://tobtr.com/s/759748"
- 20:42 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I enjoyed meeting Henry Blodgett over at SiliconAlleyInsider. SAI appears to have a solid biz plan and team. The interview was superb."
- 20:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our eBookSummit - http://bit.ly/BKj00 has potentail to be a significant start up conference. Regist. strong. One never knows for sure."
- 20:39 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "DROID....Developers are flocking to DROID. Really neat that Google is using the handset people do the heavy lifting on promoting Droid."
- 20:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "DROID over the iPhone and good reasons from Chris Nuttall in FT today. Droid will win because of its open architecture. More...."
Nov 02,2009
- 00:33 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Doing video interveiw this morning with Silicon Alley Insider and tonigh doing a podcast with Gamerchangers and Allan Hoving."
- 00:32 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "FreelanceConnect....this service is a natural new product to go along with our number one job board for the media industry--organic growth!"
- 00:31 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We have launched a new service for freelancers - http://bit.ly/4DuA7e. Still being tested but looks solid in soft launch. More...."
- 00:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Jane Friedman is our lead keynoter at the first eBookSummit - http://bit.ly/BKj00. Check out the terrific program for 15-16 December in NYC"
- 00:26 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The DROID is going to make Google even more of a juggernaut. And nice to see Motorola now having a chance to survive in the phone market."
- 00:25 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Saw the new DROID tv commercial tonight. More than fabulous. First sphone I have seen that might make me drop my beloved Bberry Bold."
- 00:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "AFTER MISS JULIE is a fabulous play on Broadway with Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller. A must see."
Oct 29,2009
- 16:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "CBSi-Q Smith --- Perhaps one day this will all be worth $2.2 billion. But not now. I think Sumner Redstone would rather have $2.2 billion?"
- 16:48 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "CBSi-Q Smith...The $2.2 billion of assets are today worth about $500 million at best. The traffic is grand! more...."
- 16:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Good interview on http://bit.ly/ZeaB3 today about Quincy Smith leaving CBSi (he bought CNET for $1.8 billion). More..."
- 16:06 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@IanGertler -we are on the same page."
- 15:04 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I will be doing an a Business Insider interview with Henry Blodgett at http://bit.ly/2RPyli on Monday. I expect some tough questions."
- 14:59 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We should be closing our sale of Internet.com on 30 November. The process for these deals require lots of compliance aggravation."
- 14:58 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Motorola's DROID is probably the beginning of the end for GPS orgs such as TOMTOM and Garmin. In time anyone with a smphone will have GPS."
Oct 28,2009
- 12:25 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Ask.com...The expensive ad campaigns used for several years including highway billboards was quixotic. Diller has been wise but not on Ask."
- 12:24 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "NYPost notes Diller wants to sell Ask.com. It was obvious when he bought it that it could not be successful against Google. More...."
Oct 27,2009
- 15:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our eBooks Summit http://bit.ly/4jFjr4 has a great lineup of speakers. More being added daily."
- 11:45 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Newspapers....The combo of a Sunday edition coupled with online offerings (both sphone, tablet and PCs) will be effective and profitable."
- 11:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Newspapers....Big city newspapers will one day be in print only on Sundays. Sunday editions will garner huge ad revenues. More..."
- 11:42 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Newspapers....the salvation for the npaper is to hope the under 30 crowd will read them on sphones and the new Apple tablet -also PCs. More."
- 11:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Newspaper circ is down across the USA but for WSJ and a few lucky ones. Most people below the age of 30 do not read papers. More..."
- 11:39 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Forbes lays off 30 more. A reduction in issues will be the next step at Forbes. Best to pump Forbes.com and let the magazine wither."
Oct 26,2009
- 16:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@TechStockRadar Thanks!"
- 16:12 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Prediction: Nokia withers much like DEC and WANG did in the 1990s. Anroid, iPhone and RIM will cause Nokia to become a small time player."
- 16:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Read Chris Nuttall in FT today on rise of Anroid. I have long been predicting the rise of Google's Android software. Big changes coming."
- 15:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Glad that AmazonKindle finally followed my suggestion to fix the connectivity flaw for overseas. They are using ATT instead of Sprint."
- 15:16 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We will shortly be launching a new freelance marketplace service on Mediabistro and Graphics.com. More info coming."
- 14:30 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Eisner's http://bit.ly/2jgePg gets big investment. Good prototype for movie and TV industry to follow. Will be mainstream in two years."
Oct 23,2009
- 15:34 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "There are jobs in the semantic web space. Check out where to look at our blog www.semanticweb.com."
- 15:34 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "There are jobs in the semantic web space. Check out where to look at our blog www.semanticweb.com."
- 14:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Fortune magazine cutting to 18 issues. Forbes is next. Both will be gone in print in less than 5 years."
- 12:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We have been cleared by the SEC to start the process for printing the proxy to complete the sale of Internet.com to QuinStreet."
- 11:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Amazing that Summers has never owned up to this. Greenspan in a way admitted he was wrong. Levitt on Frontline admits he was wrong."
- 11:45 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Brooksley Born was shot down by Greenspan, Summers, Rubin and Levitt and told to shut up and not make a fuss about derivatives. A real hero"
- 11:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Check out Brooksley Born at Frontline on pbs.org. She predicted the financial crisis in 1998. Said deriviatives would be our undoing-more"
- 11:41 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Amazon up $20 a share or more. Made me think I was back in Dec. 1999 when Blodgett said Amazon would go to $400 or some number like that!"
Oct 21,2009
- 17:04 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "UGCX is wrapping up tonight with a seminar on the state of the photo Microstock business. Wonderful lineup of speakers. #ugcx."
- 17:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Bottom line to me from attending our #ugcx event today is this: the opportunities are greater than ever to make big money online."
- 16:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Barnes-Noble's NOOK is neat. Just shows that there are zillions to be made in eBooks. Check out our program for www.ebooksevent.com."
- 10:15 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "User Generated Content show very strong again today #ugcx. The show runs next in San Jose on March 2-3. www.ugcxevent.com."
Oct 20,2009
Oct 19,2009
- 16:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@pattiedesign I do and this is a clone of that movie."
- 14:42 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "More on Paranormal Activity...The marketing strategies used could well become the future of movie marketing. The old ways bite the dust."
- 14:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The movie Paranormal Activity is making millions. It cost pennies to make. Brillant use of social networking and Web marketing. More...."
- 14:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our http://bit.ly/jF3kV takes place tomorrow at The New Yorker Hotel in NYC. It should be a lively and exciting two days."
- 14:36 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "More Wal-Mart...Its book fight with Amazon is just just the beginning. Wal-Mart will go after all "stores" of significance on the Web."
- 14:35 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Wal-Mart does not play around. From its start it is willing to lower prices to get market share. More....."
- 14:33 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Ironic that in the Internet Age Microsoft will now open computer stores a la Apple. And at the sametime Wal-Mart is growing Web presence!"
Oct 16,2009
- 01:46 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "reaccleration of Google revenue certainly bodes well for anyone in the ad space on the Internet. Also positive for the economy as a whole."
Oct 15,2009
- 14:27 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Bloggers can now win National Magazine Awards. Just another indication that digital is no different than print. Also more bad news for mags"
Oct 14,2009
- 15:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Bloomberg being private can easily absorb the losses on liabilities. Overall a brillant online strategic move. YHOO should have bid too."
- 15:42 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Bloomberg buy of Bweek is a good move for overall online positioning. I presume the mag is dead in short order. More..."
Oct 13,2009
- 19:36 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Bad Orbitz experience. Will never use it again. Has to do with canceled flights due to weather. Be weary when using Obitz v. Direct."
- 18:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Wow. Bweek sells for $2-5 million. What is Forbes worth? Good thing Bono has U2 for making money. Forbes family was smart to sell."
- 18:36 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Visited with www.stockcharts.com today in Seattle. Very solid biz model. Profitable and growing. Chip anderson is foinder and ceo."
- 15:26 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Travel pains: TSA in airports should all have same requiremets. Seattle still insists on liquids in a bag. JFK and LGA do not. Stupid."
Oct 12,2009
- 12:10 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Cont'd...NewsCorp will continue to see massive erosion of its financial base. Print distribution can work but only for special verticals."
- 12:08 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Cont'd: Blog networks of free content are the future of media. There will be a thriving biz for premium content. more...."
- 12:05 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Rupert ranting about giving away content. He has never understood the Internet. A paid model will not save newspapers. More...."
- 12:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@kirkholland will do -how are things?"
Oct 07,2009
- 16:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Heading out to the West Coast next week for lots of meetings. Among visits will be with Stockcharts.com - one of our solid VC investments."
- 16:46 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "News of new Dell phone using Android from ATT confirms that Google is going to be big in smartphones. Very exciting."
- 16:45 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "MLB.com strikes again with ingenuity! Check out their deals for the baseball playoffs. MLB.com is where the value is for a team owner."
Oct 06,2009
- 15:41 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RealClearPolitics http://bit.ly/2mqxw5 is quite a nice aggregator news service. Very clean and to the point. One of the best."
- 14:29 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We are looking at making our first VC investment in many years. We are open to ideas for first round investments."
- 12:55 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Last on mags: Ironically blogs with big name editors like Tina Brown will be the next to fail. Net publishing cannot afford star wages."
- 12:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "More mags: The decline started with tech magazines years ago. Now it is in infecting newsstand mags. Only fittest will survive."
- 12:53 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Gourmet is just the beginning of magazine shut downs at CondeNast. The basic mag model does not work anymore as readers want info ASAP."
Oct 05,2009
- 23:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@guillermoperez sounds good! thanks."
- 23:14 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Great story in NYTIMES today about apps such as the one from StanleyWorks which turns an iPhone into a leveler. Apps only get hotter."
- 23:13 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Questex bankrupt. BtoB can be a great biz but not when leverage comes into play. Lots of smart people not so smart now."
Oct 01,2009
- 14:11 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Mossberg in WSJ lauding Hero phone from HTC using android. Shows that the sphone game is still in early innings. Future is incredibly huge."
- 14:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I had tweeted about Amexpress' unfair gift card fees. Today they announced the have removed them. Nice to see and the right thing to do."
Sep 30,2009
- 12:24 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @tatianaridley: @mediabistro is throwing a user generated kind of party with and you're invited http://bit.ly/k8Ort #UGCX"
Sep 29,2009
- 11:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RT @savitz: Tech Trader Daily: Apple: Tablet To Be An Overgrown iPhone? http://bit.ly/Zh1LQ Reminds of the Apple Newton circa 1992."
- 11:50 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "And our eBook Summit is attracting fabulous speakers - http://bit.ly/18GeDf. We have the first eBOOK tradeshow in the world."
- 11:48 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Check it out -- Yahoo is now the overall sponsor to our http://bit.ly/oqInv event."
- 11:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Newegg.com is going public. The IPO market is a great bellweather for what is about to happen with Internet deals. As mentioned -hot is in"
Sep 28,2009
- 21:31 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I was fortunate to know William Safire (who died yesterday) reasonably well. Wonderful person. I was lucky to have spent time with him."
- 12:46 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@BenLaMothe good point but HuffPo needs a presidential election to make money."
Sep 27,2009
- 19:34 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Watching Gen McChrystal on 60 Minutes. He is a ringer for Gen Westmoreland in Vietnam. Check history. Afghanistan cannot be controlled."
- 17:25 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@nwjerseyliz try www.mediabistro.com and then click events."
- 17:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Tina Brown 2: no way Daily Beast ever makes a profit. Would love to see its burn rate."
- 17:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Watching Tina Brown on nyctv cable station getting all tongue tied on web stats. Shows her print instincts are hard to break."
Sep 25,2009
- 15:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our pricing options for our new tradeshows are working. Our policy allows an org to send lots of people instead of just one."
- 15:00 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "RE: UGCX Party --- time is 6-8pm."
- 14:59 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I am serving as host at our ugcx launch party on the 30th at http://bit.ly/5tHGv in nyc. It's free so plan on attending for a good time."
- 12:35 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@newscred yes"
Sep 24,2009
- 23:31 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I have been tweeting for a few weeks now and am even more impressed by the limitless possibilities for Twitter. Very powerful PR tool."
- 23:30 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "More eBOOK Summit: Brandon Badger, product mgr for Google Books is a speaker. Also Bob Livoisi of Books on Board is speaking. More coming"
- 23:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our first registratons are in for eBOOK Summit. Check out www.ebsevent.com"
- 23:26 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Schmidt of Google indicates they will be in buying mode again. Yet another indication that things have turned for a major Internet up."
- 23:25 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@Brokelyn what do you do? we publish mediabistro etc."
- 22:29 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@jayatkins ameckler@webmediabrands.com"
- 22:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@robleathern looking for blogs covering media or services that we can sell to our readers at mediabistro"
Sep 23,2009
Sep 21,2009
- 15:52 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Just had my first BestBuy store experience buying a computer for my mom. Excellent! Counting on GeekSquad to perform."
- 11:30 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Barron's has bullish article on Monster and online job boards. I think it is applicable to our Mediabistro job board. We are seeing lift."
- 11:29 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Lots of Chinese IPOs coming. This could be the next bubble. Pundits say these IPOs are sure winners. Be wary. Buy, ride and get out."
Sep 17,2009
- 18:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Rupert to charge for WSJ mobile. Unlike the paper I do not think this will work. This is not need to have info. Bloomberg mobile is free."
Sep 16,2009
- 15:01 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Lance Ulanoff moderating panel at ThinkMobile. Brandon Lucas of BET says 13% of his mobile users will pay for mobile services."
- 14:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Packed house at our ThinkMobile event at Comix in NYC. 220 paid and lots of press. Watch for ou west coast TM in May."
- 10:17 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Adobe purchase of Omniture is dicey. Google Analystics are free and in many ways serve publishers better than Omniture."
- 10:16 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I bought some more WEBM shares yesterday. 100,000 shares."
Sep 15,2009
- 16:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I finally downloaded skype. Very impressive interface. Very easy to install and use."
- 15:00 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Motorola's rolling the dice by going with the Google phone for new CliQ. I think it is a brillant strategy as Google will be big in sphones"
- 14:58 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our www.ugcxevnet.com for October 20-21 in NYC now has Yahoo as a sponsor. Interest is building in the USA's biggest ugc event."
- 11:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The Mint deal is related to my prediction of yesterday that a new golden age of Intenet deals and development is coming."
- 11:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Quicken purchase of Mint.com shows how a new co. can be a disruptor overnight. Mint made Quicken change its biz model. More..."
Sep 14,2009
- 14:48 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Interesting that mlb.com controls its streaming of baseball games but nfl.com does not and uses directtv services. kudos to mlb.com."
- 10:59 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "www.sai.com jumps on Bartz of Yahoo along with Danny Sullivan. Probably correct. ALso Bartz sold $1 million of yhoo stock -- odd lady."
- 10:33 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Check out our great webcast tomorrow @mediabistro webcast on Tues 9/15 http://bit.ly/Vqmxshave"
- 10:24 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nice article in NYTimes today about the success of blog networks grabbing ad $s. Good for Mediabistro.com for sure."
- 10:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Internet investment is on the rise again big time. Another golden age for investment is happening."
- 10:21 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@SenderOK I do not have the link but search on the author"
- 10:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@wellertimothy Good to see this - hope all is well."
Sep 10,2009
- 12:22 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our www.thinkmobile.com show next week in NYC is going to be well attended. Space is still available. Nice paid registration."
- 12:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "IncisiveMedi reborn- hopes to turn print mags into online gold is near impossible. The economy plus publishing mores make this a big bet."
Sep 08,2009
- 11:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Rita McGrath in Harvard Bus Review: Fabulous article on eBooks and that BarnesNoble might have the killer model."
Sep 03,2009
- 23:43 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@GiftsTV Always ready for a hello or a meeting. Say hello."
- 23:42 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Amazing to read about the debt load APAX burdened Incisive with. Lots of media plays are in trouble over debt. More failures coming."
- 23:39 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our job board is a good barometer for the economy. We are starting to see job listing growth. Good for us. Good for the USA!"
- 23:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I am wondering what my pal Jason Calacanis thinks he can achieve with Mahalo? Nice site but what gives it staying power?"
- 23:36 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We added mobile versions of all of our blogs. We have a neat click-thru interface to the respective mobile versions. All developed inhouse"
- 23:34 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Todd Ogasawara of our www.mobilecontenttoday.com is a great read. Traffic is rocketing as Todd diggs into content, apps and devices grandly"
Sep 02,2009
- 23:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Traffic is booming at our 12 Mediabistro blogs. We have added many new social networking features and this will further enhance traffic."
- 23:56 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Check out my blog www.alanmecklerblog.com. I complained about errors in Wikipedia entries back in 2007 and again in early 2009."
- 23:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We launched our website for the first tradeshow devoted to ebooks - www.ebsevent.com. Speaker slots will be filled shortly."
Aug 31,2009
- 16:17 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We filed our draft proxy for the sale of Internet.com assets last week and now await comments. The draft can be read on the s.e.c. site."
- 12:26 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our book publishing industry blog www.galleycat.com is adding more features on ebooks. This goes well with our upcomg ebook summit in Dec."
- 09:57 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "If interested in book publishing's future read FT article today on Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry. Article by Ben Hall. Profund and sobering."
Aug 30,2009
- 23:52 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I am plugging our www.webnewser.com blog. Coverage of social networking for media pros is the new thrust here. A solid vertical model."
- 23:50 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our www.semanticweb.com site will switch to a blog platform shortly. Traffic growing with more original content. SW will take off in 2010."
- 23:46 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Virginia Heffernan in NYT magazine today on "Facebook Exodus." I agree with her thoughts."
- 23:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@pattiedesign Web 2.0 is relevant but there is little to learn now and the cost is ridiculous. UGC is hot and cost effective."
Aug 27,2009
- 20:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Sad to see the death of Ted Kennedy. I worked for brother Robert for two years way back and met Ted once. Good memories."
- 20:51 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "More on Web 2.0. It will be interesting to see how many show up in a tough economy at few thousand a head? Web 2.0 thinks it is 2007."
- 20:50 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Web 2.0 show is offering $1000 off of early registrations ! For value check out our www.ugcxevent.com -- only $345- a better value by far."
Aug 26,2009
- 23:27 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our www.webnewser.com is now covering all things social networking for media pros. Chris Nerney is writing daily along with David Cohen."
- 18:27 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Registration for our www.thinkmobile show on 16 September in NYC is looking robust. Same for our www.ugcxevent.com 20-21 October."
- 18:25 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our EBOOK SUMMIT's web site will launch early next week. We will have the first tradeshow for this exciting area. 15-16 December in NYC."
- 18:23 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Sony eBook reader has several advantages. Best is ATT network which means it could be used outside the USA? Kindle is limited to the USA."
Aug 25,2009
- 11:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Hard to believe GM wants to keep Opel and borrow $4 billion to do so. GM should concentrate on the USA and China market and forget Opel."
- 11:02 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Interesting to see Nokia introducing a netbook. Just shows how bad there future is for smartphones."
Aug 24,2009
- 10:48 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Randall Strouss in NYT yesterday on success of Yahoo Finance. Worth reading. Yahoo is a great media co. play. The best prototype."
Aug 20,2009
- 12:49 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We need some smaller office space in Fairfield County, CT. Anyone know of a sublet? 5000 square feet would be great."
- 12:47 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "More on Bing. I find the overall design of the search page terrific. Results seem more relevant. Hats of to MSFT."
- 12:45 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Check out our www.agencyspy.com blog. It is growing by leaps and bounds. Just one of the great blgos at www..mediabistro,com."
- 12:44 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our ebook summit show is now going to be December 15-16 in New York City. It will be two-days. First big ebook show in the world."
Aug 19,2009
- 23:41 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I have been using bing and must say that I am impressed. I think it superior to Google. Not sure how MSFT gets people to think bing?"
- 22:33 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We will shortly be announcing our new Ebook Summit for New York City in January. Should be an important first show on an important subject."
- 22:31 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Andy Kessler is one of the best technology thinkers. Check him out in today's WSJ "Why ATT killed Google Voice.""
- 01:06 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "We had a nice reception last night for our upcoming Think Mobile show coming in September. www.thinkmobile.com. PC mag is cosponsor."
- 01:05 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Reader's Digest bankruptcy is just rearrangeing the deck chairs for this one time icon. RD is just an interesting publishing relic."
- 01:03 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "bought more shares of WEBM on Tuesday - 31600 to be precise. Hoping to buy more if I can find block purchases."
Aug 17,2009
- 11:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@imsoglad1 many thanks!"
- 11:09 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our stock (WEBM) is up a bit since we announced the deal signing. Also good news -we have reduced our longterm rent obligations big time."
- 11:07 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Must see movie - The Hurt Locker. I rarely tweet about personal stuff but this is a must see movie. Kudos to anyone associated with it."
- 11:06 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "I wonder how Getty Images is doing after they bought our Jupiterimages? Good for Getty that they are not public."
- 11:05 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The Conde Nast mag empire is crumbling. If there ever were profits they are gone forever. Regardless of the economy - CN has big problems."
- 11:04 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Emily Steel in WSJ today about fashion mags losing ad pages. I had thought these could continue in bliss. Just shows all mags in trouble."
- 11:02 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "David Carr in NYT today on AOL model. This is a winner. I can see a future where AOL becomes the new "Time mag group". Print is gone."
Aug 14,2009
- 08:28 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "@etkotite CLEAR was a service the allowed you to get through airport security rapidly."
- 08:26 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Brill is a promoter. Would have been nice if he apologized for ripping off people with CLEAR. I faced bankruptcy but saved my company."
- 08:24 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Journalism Online is Steve Brill's new business. Would be nice if he refunded my "Clear" membership that he created and went bankrupt!"
Aug 13,2009
- 16:20 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The Nokia-MSFT agreement will not turn things around for Nokia. Is Nokia the next Motorola? Motorola is now nothing in phones - amazing!"
- 16:19 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "FT continues to have the best tech writing. Check out Richard Waters' A PLAN TO SCAN. Deals with Google's book program. Great read."
- 15:40 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Nothing like a rough economy to sharpen a CEOs senses for cutting costs. We have reduced our costs by millions. Now we are lean and mean."
- 15:38 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "The Internet.com deal was our first with our new law firm in Raleigh, NC. Great to break away from the NYC top charging lawyers. Go Wyrick!"
- 15:37 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Things are moving along on our deal with QuinStreet for our Internet.com assets. We still need stockholder approval Proxy in the works."
- 15:35 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Our user generated content show has more speakers being added to the program daily. www.ugcxevent.com. The fall show is in NYC in October."
Aug 11,2009
- 11:56 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Just attended a board meeting of privately held www. dealnews.com. This is a gem of a company. Great growth and profits. Watch it."
- 11:54 - Alan Meckler tweeted, "Priceline is hot! Anyone remember when founder Jay Walker was vilified as a fraud during Net bust of 01? Walker is a genius."
