Weekly Money Trail- July 18, 2008
by urbantechSeattle Comcast’s The Platform goes social with Chirp Social media start-up Chirp Interactive Inc. has sold some of its assets to Comcast Corp.’s thePlatform just six months after a seed funding. Financial terms were not disclosed, but we can only assume with Comcast deep pockets, and social media on fire, the investors should be singing [...]
Read MoreComcast invests in P2P video-delivery startup
by urbantechSeems Comcast has been busy lately, as reported a few days ago with the Plaxo deal. I noticed today that Seattle-based GridNetworks on Monday said that Comcast would make an unspecified investment in the company and collaborate on developing so-called peer-to-peer file-sharing techniques that are “friendly” to Internet service providers.
That’s a step in the right [...]
Does my cable box Plaxo too?
by mega +
We love to network online, and we love cable TV, but what the hell does the nation’s largest cable company want with a social networking tool? The acquisition of Plaxo by Comcast, could quite possibly revolutionize the effort to converge the digital living room with the PC.




