I had a great time interviewing Mark Suster for my web is dead series. Basically, Mark believes that Open wins over time. AOL, Dell, Microsoft and Google seemed unbeatable, but market forces eventually chip away at areas that are closed to technology.. Here is Mark’s great blog post summarizing his thoughts and the interview. Here …

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I would like a social media credit card. Faceboook $fbook should have one, Twitter $twit should have one and maybe Stocktwits $stwit should have one too. There is one company I know working around the edges of this named Klout, but there will be many more. There should be rewards for great messaging (Follows, Retweets) …

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I would like a social media credit card. Faceboook $fbook should have one, Twitter $twit should have one and maybe Stocktwits $stwit should have one too. There is one company I know working around the edges of this named Klout, but there will be many more. There should be rewards for great messaging (Follows, Retweets) …

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Twitter $twit is a game. There is a LOT of money at stake. Twitter would get a lot more respect if the had more Customers, but they are not in the same rush as you or me. Twitter for now has chosen the biggest game of all, the media game. Lot’s of money flowing and …

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Amazing insights and riffs in the blogosphere right now about being a CEO. Fred Wilson got it started and I think from a 10,000 foot perspective he nails it: A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the …

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I have blogged of my love for AMEX $AXP pre 2007 and my hate for them since. They suck. Case closed. Here is the wording from their new ZYNC launch: ‘There has never been a another card like it’ Hmmmm. In fact, it’s so good, they have kept their green card, optima, platinum, gold, purple …

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The whole concept of ‘OPEN’ is a nice one. For example, American Express $AXP has the nerve to use ‘OPEN’ in their latest bullshit ‘TARP” backed ad campaign to get new customers for the ones they pissed off and kicked out. They are as ‘OPEN’ when it comes to selling your data and ‘Closed’ when …

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One look at Akamai $AKAM is all I need to know the web is not dead. This morning the stock is at 8 year highs.  Akamai will sell you stuff if you are closed, open, web, mobile, woman, man. The people have spoken, and they want their bandwith, no matter what the economic signals are. …

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