September 2008
3 posts
Technology Review: Making Money from Social Ties →
Advertisers are building complex applications to try to engage users on social networks.
Technology Review: Turning Social Networks Against... →
Applications built on social networks may be the ideal way to distribute malicious code.
Rough Type: The Omnigoogle →
August 2008
6 posts
Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put... →
Optimal startup burn rate and the Kelly criterion →
Social Networking Sites Show Worldwide Growth --... →
The number of new social networking site users has grown by 25% in the last year, according to ComScore.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the... →
Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition. They are the children of the Petabyte Age.
7 Reasons Startups Should Not Take VC Funding →
Advice from a Serial Entrepreneur
Technology Review: A New View for Documents →
Browser-based technologies aim to make it easier to view documents online.
July 2008
23 posts
Does Google Need Digg? →
News aggregation is the search-engine giant’s weak spot, but paying hundreds of millions for Digg may not be the solution
When the 'wisdom of crowds' turns on itself →
Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search →
Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it’s not for sale.
Lost in the Clouds →
MobileMe is facing problems endemic to cloud computing.
Reaching for the Clouds →
A new startup hopes to compete in the crowded Web-application infrastructure market by making its platform open source
Redesigning Facebook →
A new look changes the game for third-party developers.
Twitter's Growing Pains →
Plagued by service outages, the microblogging site rebuilds its infrastructure.
Web networking photos come back to bite defendants →
Or, why it helps not to act like an idiot online
Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web →
Web-Savvy Authors Reap Fame, Fortune - Forbes.com →
The Mobile Web: Its Not Just for Smartphones -... →
The iPhone and BlackBerry are the only devices consumers are using these days to access the mobile Web? According to AdMob, mobile surfing is far more mainstream than what many people might think.
Venture capital report: Investments are flat, but... →
Despite the dreary economic climate, venture investments held relatively steady in the second quarter of 2008. But more of that money is going to later-stage deals, not funding young startups.
Who’s making money on the Web? →
While failure for the high-tech entrepreneur is less likely to result in death, the parallels between the Gold Rush and the current Web-based economy are many. In both cases, participants must to adapt to a new way of life, with new rules. Or rather, no pre-existing, fixed rules.
Technology Review: Review: Facebook Scrabble... →
Technology Review: Opening Up Microblogging →
A newly launched open-source platform called Identi.ca hopes to challenge Twitter.
Five trends driving the mobile web →
Technology Review: Digging a Smarter Crowd →
Digg’s new recommendation system, like the site, relies on the wisdom of crowds.
As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll →
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How much equity... →
Entrepreneurs face some pretty tough questions at a very early stage. Should I take Angel or VC money? How much money should I raise? How much equity should I give up? How much equity should I grant to early employees? There are some guidelines, but every situation is different.
The Equity Equation →
An investor wants to give you money for a certain percentage of your startup. Should you take it? You’re about to hire your first employee. How much stock should you give him?
Should You Invest in the Long Tail? →
It was a compelling idea: In the digitized world, there’s more money to be made in niche offerings than in blockbusters. The data tell a different story.
A First Look Inside Peer39 & Its Semantic... →
Will They Really Modu? - GigaOM →
June 2008
29 posts
Who Owns Your Friends? →
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Social-networking sites are fighting over control of users’ personal information.
Internet org paves way for hundreds of new domains →
Technology Review: Ten Web Startups to Watch →
Some of the most innovative ideas of the Social Web
Should Companies Quit “Murketing” Viral Videos? →
Internet Gridlock →
Video is clogging the Internet. How we choose to unclog it will have far-reaching implications.
Review: Strong, innovative Web browsers emerge →
Facebook Passes MySpace With Global Boost →
Last month, Facebook had 123.9 million unique visitors and 50.6 billion page views worldwide, according to the research firm ComScore. MySpace, meanwhile, had 114.6 million unique visitors and 45.4 billion page views. According to the Reston research firm, this is the first time Facebook has edged past MySpace in those measures.
Suit accuses Google of trade secret theft →
LimitNone, a small software development company, is seeking nearly $1 billion in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the small company and misappropriating its trade secrets for its Google Apps online service.
Android is not delayed. But who cares if it is? →
The Business of Social Networks: Part I →
Can social-networking sites make money?
Obama and McCain Sending Official Reps to Debate... →
You want an Obama/McCain debate about Presidential policies? You got it! Sort of. The prominent political website TechPresident announced today that both campaigns are sending official representatives to a policy debate…on Twitter.
Is LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion? - GigaOM →
The secret of Bill Gates' success →
As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn’t just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn’t do that let Microsoft get ahead.
Think Twice Before You Re-Price – Part 2 →
Software pricing is a complex business. Too often, companies simply raise prices in order to improve cash flow. Better tactics exist.
Think Twice Before You Re-Price – Part 1 →
Many times companies try to change prices to stabilize or increase revenues. The results, unfortunately, are often disastrous.
OMG! UM Finds Web 2.0 Breeding Consumers 2.0,... →
Text messaging, blogging and social networking have reached critical mass, with more than half of adults now relying on at least one of these so-called Web 2.0 platforms for communicating with friends, family, or colleagues on a regular basis
China Web Boom: .CN Now More Popular than .Net →
China’s top-level domain has now surpassed .net as the web’s third most popular top-level and second most popular country-specific domain, according to a study by VeriSign
For the Future of Marketing, Look to Social Media →