Newspapers, Wake Up!

Actually, Washington Post just did. Jeff Burkett writes: washingtonpost.com BlogRoll Program Launched. Jeff’s instincts are right. There are bloggers with high quality content who would be willing to share ad revenues with the Post in exchange for serious traffic. Steve Rubel applauds the effort, and offers some suggestions on how to go beyond a wimpy

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Meg Whitman?

WSJ article on Meg Whitman. Draw your own conclusions …

Comcast Acquires YouTube?

There are a number of articles on YouTube today: TechCrunch, GigaOm, PaidContent, along with a comparison from LightReading on video sharing sites. The business model question on YouTube continues to come up, people assuming that they will eventually monetize the eyeballs. YouTube could also become the empowering engine for VideoSharing for various sites like TimeWarner,

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As AOL Reinvents Itself

A smart little acquisition occured today. AOL bought an Instant Messaging service that powers, among others, MySpace. Userplane licenses its technology to more than 100,000 sites. I really like plays like this that power thousands of web sites. Photobucket is an example of a similar play, that acts as a repository for photos that can

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User Generated Reviews

Check out Yelp Mobile. In the growing trend of User Generated content, the Review market is one that many are eyeing. Yahoo has had movie reviews for a long time. Google is starting to pull in Yelp type reviews into their Google Local site. Now, Palm has done a deal with Yelp to put them

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Destiny of Facebook and YouTube

Viacom buys Atom, adding this to their other recent purchases, XFIRE, Y2M, GameTrailers.com, IFILM and Neopets, placing them all under MTV Networks. Atom has very interesting short films and gaming properties, but none of the sizzle and growth rate of YouTube, for example. The one thing still missing from their portfolio is a MySpace-like social

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Sequoia’s Process

This post is for all those entrepreneurs who have sent me emails (and for those who have not, but are in the same shoes, dealing with positioning / fund-raising issues) : Read this section on Sequoia’s website about their Process. Focus especially on Clarity (Can you explain your business on the back of a business

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Microsoft Is A Slow Coach, BUT …

Nial Kennedy, popular blogger and web 2.0 geek has just decided to quit Microsoft, after four months of working there. Reason? Frustration! No doubt, Microsoft has become a slow coach. They can neither hire talent, nor retain talent. But. Look at Nial Kennedy’s resume. He doesn’t stick around anywhere for very long. Certainly not long

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