Update, 11am: Thursday's episode is up. There have been changes to
the "home page," - gone are the references to Colan as "interim" and
the invitation for Congdon to return. Things are getting serious, now.
"Rocketboom 2.0 beta" relaunched with "interim" anchor Joanne Colan (pron. KO-lahn). It's drawn, ahem, mixed reviews.
Some folks obviously miss Amanda Congdon, and what Valleywag is referring to as her assets. (See the Reader Poll.)
Imagine, however, you're Ms. Colan. Just in from Europe (?) or wherever. She sits in front of the map and does a show. Meanwhile, the "Rocketboom 2.0 beta" home page says you're here for the "interim." It has an entreaty for Amanda to return anytime, and in your first 60 seconds your script (probably written by Baron) has you invite Congdon's fans to find her at amandaunboomed.blogspot.com.
Maybe Colan shouldn't sign any long term leases.
Meanwhile, Amanda's talking to Time.com. "10 Questions" Again, she says Andrew Baron "fired" her, and for now she's living with her parents in Connecticut, sifting through 2,000 e-mails and job offers which are "flooding in."
CNET reports Congdon could return to Rocketboom, she said, if Baron lets her do the show from L.A. But, she added, "I don't think that we could ever be friends."
Q: "In 3 years, which will be Google's biggest search competitor?"
A: P2P search engines.
Posted by: Dimitar Vesselinov | Jul 13, 2006 at 14:46