I didn’t want to let this pass without remarking on it:<\/p>\n
The second part of Matt Carter’s gripping series on the abortive takeover of Active Rain by Move, Inc.<\/a> is up today.<\/p>\n I thought AR’s lawsuit against Move was a joke from the first<\/a>, and there is nothing in the text to lead me to change my views.<\/p>\n But, man! The drama of it all! Matt Carter has the skeleton of a good book, a cautionary tale about what happens when the wide-eyed world of Web 2.0 comes up against a crew of grizzled Wall Street-trained veterans. Lo-tech don’t mean no-tech.<\/p>\n Here’s the moral, if you’re the skip-ahead kind of reader: Verbal agreements are not worth the paper they’re printed on.<\/p>\n Fascinating reading, both<\/a> parts<\/a>. Well worth your time. 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