Is Skype the new SmartTag?

I had dinner with Ajit Jaokar, CEO of Futuretext, a publishing company that publishes tech books like Mobile Web 2.0 and Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger (he writes a VoIP blog over on ZDNet, but also has political blogs and other blogging jobs over on Weblogs Inc, among others).

Founder: News Corp. Hijacked MySpace

Brad Greenspan, who says he, not Chris DeWolfe or Tom Anderson, founded MySpace.com, is accusing News Corp. and MySpace's parent company, Intermix, of defrauding shareholders out of $20 billion. Greenspan filed suit with other shareholders in federal court, asking that MySpace be released from News Corp. control.

Ask.com CEO: We Have Best Special Sauce

Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com, recently made some interesting comments to The Guardian's Kate Bulkley. Lanzone talked about the current state of affairs at Ask, and also spoke about the company's future. He deserves credit for not giving typical responses that have obviously been polished by the PR department.