Comments on Ann Brocklehurst.com: Why I'm betting Geosign suckered American Capital

Hey, I've been clean for almost two months now -- ...

2008-04-24T19:09:00.000-04:00

Hey, I've been clean for almost two months now -- not even so much as a Geosign mention even though, for some reason, interest in things Geo and Moxy has picked up in the last few days.

I've quit cold turkey unless someone leaks me definitive info. on whether American Capital was suckered or not.

You're like someone tempting a reformed alcohlic by telling her to just have on sip.

Nope, sorry, it's over until the unmarked brown envelope arrives in my mailbox.

Everytime I see something about Geosign, you're th...

2008-04-24T13:53:00.000-04:00

Everytime I see something about Geosign, you're there somewhere! Why the obsession with the ol Geo?

I worked there and got laid off in the big fall out and I don't even care about it this much!!

It's over, the company is unprofessional and still is...case in point: they are changing all of the bylines on old Geosign sites (that are being updated again recently)from people who used to work there to make it seem like we never existed.

Nice and plagiarific don't you think?

How come this Geosign story has got no legs?

2008-03-13T18:54:00.000-04:00

How come this Geosign story has got no legs?

The Geosign website is gone. It's only Moxy Media ...

2008-03-12T07:10:00.000-04:00

The Geosign website is gone. It's only Moxy Media now. From the timing, I would say it has something to do with the article last week. American Capital must want to wash the Geosign name away.

Long live thefart.com. So glad to hear that Tim Ny...

2008-03-07T13:22:00.000-05:00

Long live thefart.com. So glad to hear that Tim Nye can still blow hot air.

thefart.com: just the layout of the page has chang...

2008-03-07T01:24:00.000-05:00

thefart.com: just the layout of the page has changed. Monetization is now being done through parked.com (another doomed online business), but the domain is still linked to Tim Nye. Agreed, it is not longer owned by Geosign, but by emedia, Inc., in Guelph. Apparently it is one of the domains that Moxy Media did not want, so they gave it to Nye.

I just direct navigated to thefart.com and discove...

2008-03-06T18:18:00.000-05:00

I just direct navigated to thefart.com and discovered Geosign no longer owns that excellent domain.

Ann, the truth is we're all just guessing. You don...

2008-03-06T12:18:00.000-05:00

Ann, the truth is we're all just guessing. You don't know what happened. And neither do the people who say American Capital knew what it was doing. There are only a handful of people who know what really went down and for obvious reasons they don't want to talk.

Apologies for my prolonged absence, but I've moved...

2008-03-06T11:09:00.000-05:00

Apologies for my prolonged absence, but I've moved from the GTA and just got wind of these latest Geosign developments.

Looks like Geosign is still pretty good at finding suckers only this time round its journalists not VCs.

If American Capital was so hot at due diligence, then why didn't it do a day's worth of due diligence on the web? It sure would have had a better idea of how it's future revenue stream could be cut off in a snap.

Arbitrage of any kind is always a temporary opportunity in an unbalanced market because markets sort themselves out. This is economics 101.

You don't have to be a Palo Alto VC to know that. Oh wait, we're supposed to believe that the Palo Alto VCs who couldn't possibly have been fooled by the Guelph hicks didn't know that basic arbitrage fact.