Alan Meckler

Catch My Tweets!

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:04:12 -0500

I am now a Twitter man. @alanmeckler or www.twitter.com/alanmeckler/. I started blogging in February 2003. I was early to the game. I am not abandoing this blog. From time to time I will post lengthier thoughts, but I will be...

Facebook Needs Financing

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:23:35 -0500

Facebook continues to grow at prodigious rates. Of course this is traffic growth and not revenue growth. Business Week has an interesting analysis about Facebook's money needs. The main requirement for the financing is to cover servers and related tech to...

Pure Digital Is Pure Joy!

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:52:02 -0500

Cisco's purchase of the Flip line of camcorders from Pure Digital Technology Inc. was great reading. At a time when all seems down and out in the tech and financial worlds this deal shows that ingenuity is alive and well...

More Stock Purchased

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:32:21 -0500

I purchased another 1.9 million shares of WebMediaBrands earlier this week. I have purchased over 3 million of our shares since early December and hope to buy more. Now that we have sold our image business I feel we have...

Tim Armstrong, AOL And A Bit Of History

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:40:34 -0500

We all know that Tim Armstrong is now CEO of AOL. I do not know Tim. I am sure he is extremenly bright and of course has a great track record at Google. Tim did a great job at Google,...

The New York Times' Future

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:23:55 -0500

Much is being written about the future of daily newspapers. Dailies in many cities are failing on a regular basis. I just read about the main daily in Tucson possibly closing after 138 years of publishing. So what about The New York...

Kindle's Big Flaw

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:03:03 -0500

All the pundits are in love with the Kindle! I too love the Kindle. I have the original edition and find it handy for travel. I will probably spring for the new version and sell my present Kindle on eBay....

Thoughts From A Sale

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:19:31 -0500

Most readers of this blog know that our company recently sold its Jupiterimages division. We were in the image business for nearly 6 years. I will not bore readers with the details of the history or the highs and lows. ...

TV Newser Summit

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:04:13 -0500

Our first TV Newser Summit is off to a brillant start in New York City today. This Mediabistro event is the first of many future TV Newser events. The show is based on our widely read blog - TV Newser (which has...

Yahoo Finance Has Customer Service Problems

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:56:35 -0500

Yahoo Finance has significant customer service problems. Many readers know that my company is public. We have a rotten stock price. Regardless, if WebMediaBrands (WEBM) is going to be listed and covered on Yahoo Finance one would think that Yahoo...

Corbis Does Not Get It

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:26:40 -0500

This will probably be my last post having anything to do with the stock photo industry. In fact I have my surprised myself that I am writing this entry. However I could not resist mentioning a mailing I received today...

Firings: A Publicity Gold Mine

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:48:03 -0500

Our new company name is fast becoming known. WebMediaBrands was born a week ago and we have gotten lots of press. Unfortunately the press comes because of the employees we let go earlier this week. Obviously the media business is...

Tough Times, Tough Decisions

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:43:12 -0500

The word is getting out in the blog world that we laid off 60 people yesterday. Some bloggers seem to get joy in telling the story which is a pity. These are rough and tough times. Even Eric Schmidt, CEO...

Media Job Daily Launched

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:17:10 -0500

The economic news becomes worse daily. I cannot believe how inept the new Obama administration has been on handling the situation. They had a great opportunity to come out guns blazing and give the country confidence. Instead we are getting...

Wall Street Journal Publishes Meckler Letter To The Editor

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:15:31 -0500

The Wall Street Journal print edition today was kind enough today to publish a letter I submitted in response to L. Gordon Crovitz's Op-Ed piece earlier this week. My letter follows: L. Gordon Crovitz referenced me as the "chairman of Internet.com" in...