Earlier today I posted on the edgeio blog the news that the transition of edgeio to its new owners – Looksmart and Vast.com – is complete from my point of view. I continue to believe that edge-published classifieds will one day be a large advertising opportunity, and sooner rather than later.
The edgeio web site will go silent for a while until Looksmart integrates it into their ad platform. Vast.com has already gone live with the real estate assets they acquired.
As for me. i am playing with a few things:
1. I have office space at 654 High in Palo Alto, through 31 August. If you have a pre-funded startup and want help, ding me. I can help.
2. I am playing with vertically specific social media. http://seriouslypolitics.com, http://seriouslywallstreet.com and http://seriouslymedia.com are VERY early implementations of some thinking I am doing about supporting people who are highly focused on specific interests to remove noise and allow higher productivity within their interest area. If this is an area that interests you, again, ping me.
3. I am working with my friend Jean-Marie Hullot again (he and I co-founded RealNames). He and his team in Paris (France) have been working in stealth on an awesome concept for 2 years. Later this year I will help bring it to market. Can’t say any more. but I am in Paris Mon-Thurs, and London Friday this week if anybody wants to get together. My cell is +1-650-704-2674.
4. I am working with a bunch of startups – Spotplex; Real Time Matrix; Snipperoo; AboutUs.org. It is great to work with entrepreneurs on early stage products.
5. I continue to be involved with Mike at TechCrunch. I can’t believe how amazing its growth and influence is. Very exciting! Very Mike!
So that’s my update. I’m on Twitter quite a bit if you want to follow me – http://www.twitter.com/kteare.
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