Democracy Player to Change Names
Video junkies that haven’t heard of the very cool, configurable, near-programmable Democracy Player should now look for Miro. Nicholas Reville explains the name change. Interesting to note: Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer and co-founder of Boing Boing, is on the board of directors and had original tried to talk the company out of the name Democracy Player. No dis to Cory, but I like the name and am disappointed in the change to Miro. Not to mention, the current site’s homepage is a PR7 (pagerank).
But then, Joost started off life as The Venice Project. Maybe Babelgum will change their name too. Is this going to be the new cool activity for 2007? At least Topix.net (which has nothing to do with video) is only switching over to .com.
Washington Post Buys MBA Student’s Site
These sorts of stories are great to hear. An MBA student, Zoey Rawlins, at the University of Maryland set up a website called Shop DC (now DC Scout). She used US$7,000 in seed money from a student entrepreneurial program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Now, the Washington Post bought her site, though she says she’s still running the show.
That’s a smart move for the Post. Now, normally, $7,000 is excessive for starting a website, but it was an ecommerce site, if I understand correctly. The really nice thing is that Rawlins is paying it forward by planning to use some of the proceeds of the sale (terms undisclosed) to help other entrepreneurs at the school.
Media Mogul’s Trial Today
Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Lord Black is being tried in Chicago today in US Federal court on fraud charges. The Chicago Sun-Times publisher, John Cruickshank, promised to be fair to Black. If Lord Black gets convicted, I’m just wondering if future mothers will be waggling their finger at their baby media moguls, telling them to behave or end up like Black.
Originally posted on March 14, 2007 @ 2:21 pm