Category: Web 2.0
Technology Blog Valuations – Getting to be Real!
Update 2:Rafat has a comment to this post pointing out that by just looking at paidcontent.org I am doing the valuation of ContentNext a disservice. Of course he is quite right. ContentNext has other sites and also events. It is also true to say – although Rafat doesn’t – that valuation has many variables, including…
edgeio has announced the paid content platform. Distributed Commerce meets Web 2.0
Press release for download Product Description given to Gnomedex Attendees News from the Web on this: Digg – here Techmeme – here and here ReadWrite web – here TechCrunch – here Venturebeat – here Gnomedex – here Jeff Jarvis – here Dan Farber – ZDNet – here Rob Hof at BusinessWeek – here Bub.blicio.us –…
Debating Andrew Keen tonight
I will be at the Campbell Barnes & Noble tonight debating author Andrew Keen and his debating partner Nick Carr. Joining me will be Steve Gilmor and the moderator is Dan Farber of ZDNet. Here is an excerpt from Andrew’s Blog. Nick Carr’s Big Switch by ZDNet‘s Andrew Keen — Nicholas Carr, amongst the most…
TechCrunch20 web site goes live
It seems like a long time ago that Jason Calcannis and Mike Arrington announced their intention to host a conference for startups in the fall. It was at the DEMO conference at the start of the year. Well ….. TechCrunch20 is now real and today the web site went live with more details of the…
Its true – TechCrunch and F***edCompany to do press release tonight.
Another deal I have had to keep under wraps….. Techcrunch and F***edCompany are set to release news of a merger tonight at around 9pm Pacific Time. Mike has blogged it early due to rumors circulating on the web. Techmeme has it here.
It is true. Heather Harde is new TechCrunch CEO
Om Malik has the scoop but this is something I have been keeping under my hat for several weeks. Heather Harde, former Fox Interactive Media executive, responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions, is to be the new CEO of TechCrunch. ———————————————————————- UPDATE Mike has now confirmed the news here. ———————————————————————- Heather was a key figure in…
I’ve been “tagged”
As the title says I have been tagged by Dave Winer. The rules say I now have to tell you 5 things you didn’t know about me and then tag five others. So, here goes: 1. I am currently in St James, Cape Town, S Africa. It is a small area between Muizenberg and Fish…
The Pareto Principle is nonsense.
In response to the current discussion on Techmeme and TailRank hipmojo writes that the Pareto principle is in play on the internet and that no matter how much we want it to be otherwise 80% of online advertising will go to 20% of the web sites. When the dust settles, the top 20% of websites…
De-portalization and Internet revenues
Last week Fred Wilson did a post on a phenomena he called de-portalization. I think he is right on the money. I just posted a piece on the edgeio blog that picks up on that theme and discusses the consequences of the trend. The top 10 consequences are: 1. The revenue growth that has characterized…
Is scraping and crawling stealing?
A spat has blown up over the weekend regarding Oodle and Vast.com “scraping” content from 3rd party sites and re-purposing it inside their environments. This essay is my reaction to the spat. As a founder of edgeio I clearly have an interest in the answer to the question. edgeio does not scrape or crawl. All…