When Will LinkedIn Open Up?

Nielsen has released some interesting numbers on social media traffic. The most interesting of these is that LinkedIn has grown 361% y-o-y.

Microsoft’s Shopping List

Let Yahoo deal with its mess, Microsoft should go cold turkey on them for a year now, and let Jerry Yang get fired for failing to create shareholder value. A far more interesting question looms on the Microsoft side. What is Microsoft’s Internet strategy going forward?

Deal Radar 2008: Facebook Woes Coming?

Facebook is the most popular social networking site providing an interactive space that helps members communicate with “friends”. The site features like ‘Wall’ and ‘Poke’ have created a vernacular amongst the youth population. It was started in February 2004, by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. “Are we Facebook friends?” has now become a social phenomenon! Angel

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Good Financial Blogs

Here’s a list of good financial blogs. I wish I had time to read all of them, but I don’t. I am still trying to figure out an algorithm of how to stay on top of all this great information! All About Alpha: Christopher Holt’s blog explores the “game changing” effect of hedge funds, ETFs,

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US Social Media Rankings

Some really interesting data here on which of the social media sites are growing, and which ones have stagnated … Classmates, that has filed to go public, is slowing down? Bizarre!

Web 3.0: PeopleID, and Plaxo

While we are on the topic of PlaceID and PeopleID, I should tell you about my recent visit with Plaxo’s CEO Ben Golub, and VP of Marketing John McCrea. Ben Golub was, prior to Plaxo, the CMO of Verisign. Ben’s first Silicon Valley job was cutting apricots in an orchard which was paved over to

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Gen Y & Edutainment

I wrote a piece called Affluenza about 2 years back, discussing the spending habits of Generation Y, and the opportunity that might present for Edutainment products. Generation Y has since evolved to become a very important marketing target, especially because they are hugely reachable. Gen Y is the largest generation in U.S. history. There are

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Web 3.0 & Photobucket

We have discussed an overview of the photo sharing industry and Flickr and here we will take a look at Photobucket’s offering from a Web 3.0 perspective. Photobucket, founded in 2003, by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo-sharing site. VCs including Insight Venture Partners and Trinity

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