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| Jun 17, 2020 | Real-Time Recount | Our portfolio company Recount Media, which I have blogged about here before, recently launched an interesting partnership between Recount, Twitter, and brand marketers. They are calling this partnership “Real-Time Recount.” Recount is a new... |
| Sep 26, 2018 | Knowing What You Are Looking For | There are many different styles of investing. At USV, we choose to be thesis-driven investors. This is our current thesis. When an opportunity shows up that is right down the middle of our strike zone, we generally jump on it. It really hel... |
| Jun 3, 2014 | Investors Build New Marketing Tools For The Visual Web | Navigating the web these days is increasingly a case of what you see is what you get. Sites like Pinterest and Tumblr, and apps like Instagram, Vine, and Snapchat are replacing text updates with images and video as the primary mode of commu... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | Why brand advertising is a huge opportunity in mobile — and how to seize it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Jason Baptiste is the CMO and co-founder of Onswi... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | Why brand advertising is a huge opportunity in mobile — and how to seize it | Jason Baptiste is the CMO and co-founder of Onswipe. The 2014 Venturebeat Mobile Summit was awesome and a great meeting of the minds in mobile. I was fortunate enough to chair the ad formats session with MoPub cofounder Nafis Jamal and Vung... |
| Jan 29, 2014 | Federated Media Sells Brand, Content Marketing Business, Forms ‘Sovrn’ With Battelle And Knapp | Federated Media announced that it has sold its brand and content marketing business to LIN Digital Media. Federated’s programmatic media and publisher platform business, which was built through its Lijit Networks acquisition back in 2011, w... |
| Oct 8, 2013 | Может быть, социальные сети уже погубили Веб? | Anonymous 8 октября 2013, 09:00 Может быть, социальные сети уже погубили Веб? Оставить комментарий |
| Sep 27, 2013 | Former Microsoftie And Googler Lucovsky Leaves VMware For New Project, No Word On Chairs Thrown | VMware VP of Engineering Mark Lucovsky is leaving the virtualization giant for a ‘new chapter’ he’s referring to as ‘#nine’ on Twitter. Lucovsky has been with VMware for around four years and before that held positions at Google and Microso... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Federated Media founder John Battelle reassumes role as CEO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! After a four-year stint as CEO of Federated Media... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | John Battelle Returns As CEO At Federated Media, Deanna Brown Steps Down | Online advertising company Federated Media just announced that current CEO Deanna Brown is stepping down, while founder and former CEO John Battelle will be taking on the role again. The company says that Battelle and Brown will be working ... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Federated Media founder John Battelle reassumes role as CEO | After a four-year stint as CEO of Federated Media Publishing, Deanna Brown is stepping down from the position, the company announced today. But Brown, who helped FMP’s ad network audience reach grow larger than long-time competitors AOL, Ya... |
| Jan 20, 2013 | Iterations: Graph Search, In Theory And In Practice | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. The biggest news in consumer technology this week was created by Facebook. The social network’s new product – “Graph Search” – was the subjec... |
| Jan 18, 2013 | Facebook Used to Be Fun—Graph Search Makes It Useful | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints I spend a lot of time on Facebook. Probably more than the average user, who spends around 400 minutes on the site per month, or about 13 minutes per day, according to data fro... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Federated Media is done with banner ad sales | Online advertising agency Federated Media announced today that it’s eliminating its direct display advertising business. The move marks a significant shift in the agency’s overall business strategy. FM is among the top ad agencies in the in... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Federated Media is done with banner ad sales | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Online advertising agency Federated Media announc... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Indeed | The first great investment we made at USV was Indeed in the summer of 2005. Brad had been looking for a search engine for jobs and I saw this post on John Battelle's blog in late 2004. I forwarded it to Brad and he reached out to Paul and R... |
| Sep 14, 2012 | Booting Up: Using Apple Products Ain’t as Easy as It Used to Be Edition | “Iz not ‘out of the box’ experience I wuz promised.” (Photo: flickr.com/brownpau) BuzzFeed has purchased Kingfish Labs, a company specializing in Facebook data. This is probably the strategic equivalent of that point in the pandemic movie w... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Craigslist blocks one-man apartment-search startup PadMapper | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! [ Updated 10:26 PM with a comment from DeMenthon ... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Craigslist blocks one-man apartment-search startup PadMapper | [ Updated 10:26 PM with a comment from DeMenthon ] Popular online classifieds service Craigslist has blocked apartment-finding site PadMapper. PadMapper Chief executive Eric DeMenthon said today on the PadMapper blog that all Craiglist-sour... |
| May 9, 2012 | The Swift Hand of Justice Rebukes Myspace for Shattering the Sanctity of Privacy | In a settlement announced yesterday by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the present owners of music-information-sharing service Myspace (now with a small “s”) agreed never to do again what it cannot really do now even if it wanted to: sha... |
| May 1, 2012 | The Pebble Effect: The Spotlight Is Suddenly On Hardware Startups | Better than writing a note on your hand. The last time Betabeat checked in with Pebble the smartwatch, Y Combinator alum Eric Migicovsky had raised some $4.6 million on Kickstarter for an idea that struggled to find venture capital backing ... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | The Web 2.0 Summit, Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle’s Tech-Palooza, Is On Indefinite “Hiatus” | The Web 2.0 Summit will not be taking place this year. The conference, which has grown since its inception in 2004 to be one of the buzziest and busiest annual events for the web and new media upper crust, is “on hiatus” indefinitely, accor... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Facebook Display Ads On Third-Party Sites? It’s Already Doing It For Facebook.com (On Google’s Network) | There has been some speculation about when Facebook might launch an advertising network to run on sites apart from its own, using its trove of data on what its 845 million users like and share. But while the company has been silent on wheth... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | Everybody is Lying to Me and I Don’t Care | Why do I feel like everybody is lying to me all the time? I cannot get around the idea that every technology company with a major platform is doing everything it possibly can to get as much data from me as it possibly can through any means ... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | The Cookie Monster returns! Google caught tracking Safari users on Apple’s iOS | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Welcome to another edition of yellow journalism with Julia Angwin of The Wall Street Journal. The reporter who brought you the “What Th... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | Give Google Some Credit | Google’s having a down moment in the press. It can’t catch a break. Every public, top-level decision it’s made recently is either the end of “Don’t Be Evil” or impossibly optimistic. After all, “Giant Company Falls From Grace” is the kind o... |
| Jan 14, 2012 | With Google+ favoritism, Google has decided to sell its soul — and it may pay | Google’s introduction of Google+ links into its search results is a big departure from the company’s previous more neutral approach to search, and it exposes the company to a huge risk. It opens up the company to significant criticism from ... |
| Jan 14, 2012 | With Google+ favoritism, Google has decided to sell its soul — and it may pay | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipkSRwgVt... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | Not At Any Price: Twitter Denied Data To Google And Bet On Itself | If Twitter continued to sell its firehose to Google, fewer searches would occur on Twitter’s internal search engine where the microblog platform can serve its own ads. That’s why sources familiar with the negotiations tell me Twitter wouldn... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | Will Twitter sue over Google's new social search? | Google launches 'Search Plus Your World' and Twitter is fighting mad about new search results The great and powerful Google, in all its wisdom, announced Tuesday that it will roll out some new search features, which will direct users of its... |
| Jan 10, 2012 | Twitter Really, Really Hates Google’s New Google+ Integration | This morning, Google began rolling out a major change to its core search engine that intertwines results from Google+ (and Picasa) with the ‘normal’ algorithmically-generated results we’ve come to expect. There have been plenty of critiques... |
| Dec 28, 2011 | 12 Things That Won’t Happen In Online Video in 2012 | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan. There are no shortages of “predictions” articles, here I look at a dozen things that won’t happen in the world of online video in 2012... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | First Look: The Web’s Most Ambitious Personal Data Project, Singly, Goes Live Today | You make data. A lot of it. From Web browsing to link sharing to photos published online, from phone bills to medical records to online banking – almost all of us produce an incredible amount of electronic data that slips right through our ... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Sergey Brin & Vic Gundotra on Pseudonyms, Apps Users & the Google Plus Platform | After lunch at Web 2.0 today, John Battelle interviewed Vic Gundotra and Sergey Brin of Google. The topic was Google Plus, and Gundotra cleared up some of the key questions about the new social network, which now has 40 million users. Googl... |
| Sep 26, 2011 | Web 2.0 Map Adds Cities of Data (But One of Facebook’s Skyscrapers Just Got Taller!) | The term “Web 2.0” isn’t often used these days, but it signifies the era of the Web in which social, read/write technologies came to the fore. Google was the golden child in Web 2.0, whereas Facebook is the equivalent today in the ‘Social M... |
| Sep 8, 2011 | Twitter CEO On Google+: It’s Complicated | Twitter CEO Dick Costolo held a press briefing at Twitter HQ this morning in order to talk about the Twitter’s path moving forward. Costolo indicated how important it was that Twitter focus if it wants to compete in today’s saturated social... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Open Question: What Tech Stories Do YOU Want to Read? | Yesterday I wrote about the lack of big ideas in tech media, in response to a New York Times op-ed about the “post-idea world.” I basically complained that there is too much mindless pap on Techmeme these days, most of it about business dea... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | The Implicit Social Graph | John Battelle wrote a gushing post about Color and what it means for mobile/social/local/realtime, augmented reality, and more. There are most certainly some big ideas in the Color app. I've never put a mobile photo app on my phone but I pu... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | The Color Of Money | People. Colors. Apps. Cats. Bacon. Organic. Bieber. Mobile. Social. Local. Pivot. That’s the key slide in a faux-deck making the rounds this morning on the web. The subject of the ridicule? Color, the just-launched social sharing mobile app... |
| Jan 23, 2011 | The Independent Web | John Battelle has put forth his vision for The Independent Web. John is thinking of this concept in the context of the world he lives in, publishing and advertising, which makes total sense. I too am very taken with the idea of The Independ... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | The second coming of the Internet IPO | Take the Facebook shares their Goldman representative has offered them Most of what I've been saying recently about valuations here at AVC has been negative. I think we are in a "focus on the upside" phase in the web investing sec... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | The Second Coming Of The Internet IPO | Most of what I've been saying recently about valuations here at AVC has been negative. I think we are in a "focus on the upside" phase in the web investing sector and I've been pretty liberal with my thoughts on that. But when fri... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Groupon will become the Sarah Palin of tech, and other predictions for 2011 | 2011 will be a year of economic recovery and continued drama in Silicon Valley, marked by the hyped battles of Apple vs. Google, Google vs. Facebook, and Oracle vs. the rest of the enterprise world. Without further ado, here is the 4th annu... |
| Jan 5, 2011 | Things about the Endless Facebook Speculation that Have to Be Said | I’ve avoided writing something about the Goldman Sachs- Facebook deal, because God knows the rest of the blogosphere has been doing enough speculation for the entire world. But four things I’ve read in the last 24-hours need a serious rebut... |
| Dec 31, 2010 | 10 for 2010: Apple stories that mattered | My last set of year-end retrospectives surprises me, and some Betanews readers may feel the same. Many commenters accuse me of shilling for Apple, of being a fanboy, which I always dismiss. But in looking over my own Apple posts over the la... |
| Oct 17, 2010 | Craigslist Shuts Down Aggregator Craiglook | Apparently used by some (it looks like primarily vehicle enthusiasts mostly) more than Craigslist.com itself, aggregator and search engine Craiglook was shut down by Craigslist this week for violation of its Terms of Use and trademark viola... |
| Oct 2, 2010 | How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today | Remember three years ago, when Microsoft paid a quarter-billion dollars for 1.6% of Facebook and the exclusive right to run banner ads across Facebook.com? Tell the truth, how many of you thought that was a killer business decision? I can’t... |
| Sep 4, 2010 | Rise of the Anti-Content Farmers | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the CEO of WatchMojo, a producer and distributor of premium video content. Read his other posts here, or follow him on Twitter @ashkan My cohort at Revision 3, CEO Jim Lou... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Demand Media takes first step to market in filing for IPO | Demand Media, an online content provider, has taken the first step towards an initial public offering. The company’s S-1 filing on Friday revealed details of the company’s business — semi-automated content production with an eye towards cap... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Demand Media takes first step to market in filing for IPO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Demand Media, an online content provider, has tak... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Summer reading (and year-round blogs) | What to read when you put down those Stieg Larsson novels It’s summer and I understand everywhere else in the United States, it’s hot. In San Francisco, we’ve endured day after day of thick fog (during my run through Golden Gate Park the ot... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Travelocity Cements Its Position As Default Travel Booking Service On Yahoo | Travelocity has signed a contract to renew its partnership with Yahoo. Under the terms of the agreement, Travelocity will remain the exclusive booking provider for all air, car and hotel packaging options, and the new exclusive provider for... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Who is AOL’s mystery search partner? It could only be Microsoft | AOL is talking to more than two companies in a quest for a new search engine partnership, CEO and chairman Tim Armstrong told an audience at today’s D8 conference outside Los Angeles. Armstrong only name-checked Google, AOL’s current search... |
| Jun 1, 2010 | Apple is the new AOL and new Microsoft, and whoa that can't be a good thing | Two astoundingly good analyses hit the InterWebs over the US holiday weekend: John Battelle's "Is The iPad A Disappointment? Depends When You Sold Your AOL Stock" and Kroc Camen's "Will Apple Embrace the Web? No." If you... |
| May 28, 2010 | Facebook: We know what you browsed last quarter | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! With like buttons and social plug-ins strewn acro... |
| May 28, 2010 | Facebook: We know what you browsed last quarter | With like buttons and social plug-ins strewn across more than 100,000 sites, Facebook is rapidly gaining power to track how its nearly 500 million users move across the web. The company says it focuses on high-quality interaction such as “l... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Don’t miss your chance to grill John Battelle, founder of Federated Media | Would you like to ask John Battelle, author of “The Search” and founder of Federated Media Publishing, a question? If so, Thursday, April 29 is your chance. HP’s Input|Output is a series of interviews with some of the smartest people on the... |
| Apr 13, 2010 | "Promoted Tweets" Not Resonating Well On Twitter | Now that Twitter finally revealed details about its plans to launch advertising with “promoted tweets,” people on Twitter are reacting. Not surprisingly, most of them don’t like the idea of ads being inserted at the top of their Twitter sea... |
| Apr 10, 2010 | Will AOL and Demand Media’s Content Farm Strategy Prevail? | Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. In this post he examines the two biggest content farms springing up on the Web: Demand Media and Aol. You can find his previous guest posts ab... |
| Mar 5, 2010 | The Real Time Google Index: Will It Be a Game Changer? (Open Thread) | Google is developing a system to ingest real-time content updates from any page on the web automatically, using the open PubSubHubbub Atom protocol, we reported on Wednesday. Google already indexes a whole lot of content very quickly, will ... |
| Feb 8, 2010 | Google Superbowl ad: a welcome policy breach | Search giant violates its own no-ads rule in the most egregious way imaginable--to great effect Google is famous for not advertising. CEO Eric Schmidt called the practice “the last bastion of unaccountable spending in corporate America” in ... |
| Feb 7, 2010 | Four Things That Scare Google | Late last year, I wrote that Google's (GOOG) omnipotence was waning. The humbler beast that has emerged in 2010 is facing four definite threats; recent news has shown the company building preemptive bulwarks against them. I'm not saying tha... |
| Feb 7, 2010 | Google to run its first-ever Super Bowl commercial | Google plans on running its first Super Bowl commercial today during the third quarter of the game. John Battelle of Federated Media reports on his blog that Google will run the “Parisian Love” ad tomorrow as part of a branding campaign. An... |
| Feb 7, 2010 | Hell Freezes Over As Google Runs Its First Super Bowl Ad | As predicted, Hell has indeed frozen over. Yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt sent a tweet hinting at something most people probably never expected to see: a Google Super Bowl ad. But the contents of the ad, and even the product it would be... |
| Feb 6, 2010 | Looks Like Google May Have A Super Bowl Commercial | While Google is a company built on advertising, for the most part it has stayed out of advertising itself on the dominant medium: television. Yes, there have been those short ads for Chrome and a few for Android that it has been involved wi... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Tech predictions for 2010 | Because they’re just too fun to pass up! With each new year, prognosticators the world over engage in the age-old sport of predicting the next big trends. While some have a better record than others, it’s always fun to see what might happen... |
| Dec 27, 2009 | Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Rohit Khare, the co-founder of Angstro. Building his latest project, social address book Knx.to, gives him a deep familiarity with the privacy policies of all the major social networks.... |
| Dec 14, 2009 | How Google Can Combat Content Farms | In my recent post about the rise of content farms like Demand Media and the current incarnation of AOL, I posited that Google (and search in general) risks becoming less relevant as the Web gets drowned in lesser quality content. This is du... |
| Dec 1, 2009 | Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes After Dev Shows Craig His New Mashup | Developers take note: if you’ve got a mashup built off of Craigslist’s data, don’t even think about showing it to anyone who works there. At least, that’s the lesson learned by developer Romy Maxwell, who says that Craigslist has blocked bo... |
| Oct 29, 2009 | Comcast Roundup: Calling broadband stimulus packages ineligible, Yellow Pages on TV and More | Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates. The Inqy’s DiStefano reports that C... |
| Oct 17, 2009 | Blog Stars | We had a discussion about "blog stars" in the comments to my post yesterday. Kid Mercury has been saying for as long I recall that niche communities are the future of the Internet. And he believes that niche communities are led by... |
| Aug 22, 2009 | For Twitter, Sharing Data With Google Would Be Suicide | Guest author Edo Segal (@edosegal) has launched and sold several companies. In 2000 he founded eNow, a search engine for the Real-time Internet in an age that predated RSS as a popular medium. As such he has had a decade to think about its ... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Open data is the future of web discovery | Twitter cofounders have talked about the importance of discovery in interviews and at conferences over the last several months. This week a new design for Twitter.com went live featuring top tweets and a search box to find more of what you ... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Open data is the future of web discovery | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Twitter cofounders have talked about the importan... |
| Jul 13, 2009 | Google Loses Engineering Director Who Once Caused Steve Ballmer To Melt Down | After nearly 5 years with the company, Engineering Director Mark Lucovsky is leaving Google for a role with VMware, we’ve learned. Lucovsky has been an integral part of Google’s APIs, including the all-important Search APIs. Before Google, ... |
| Jun 10, 2009 | Now That It's The One Millionth Word, "Web 2.0" Can Be Retired To The Dictionary | What do you do if you are an obscure language group in Austin, Texas looking for attention? You declare “Web 2.0” the one millionth word in the English language. So says the Global Language Monitor, which looks at usage of words on the Web ... |
| Jun 10, 2009 | Roundup: Digital TV transition hits Friday, Microsoft cuts MS Money, Google cuts trips | Here’s the latest action: Digital TV transition — About 2.8 million aren’t ready for the switch from analog to digital TV on Friday. Barry Diller on content — The CEO of IAC says, make people pay for it. Paidcontent (of course) has more. Fi... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | Twitter Restores UK SMS Functionality For Vodafone Users; Mysterious Ad Box Gets A Refresh | Twitter has just announced that it has restored full SMS functionality to customers in the UK who are using Vodafone. While any Twitter user can submit updates via text message, for months only users in North America have been able to recei... |
| Mar 25, 2009 | Yahoo Shuttering Travel Bargains Site FareChase Today | Yahoo is cutting more fat today by closing its travel bargains website FareChase, which it originally acquired back in July 2004 and re-launched two years later. The company will be announcing the shut-down later today, and will start redir... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | Twitter Starts Serving Ads For Third Party Apps (But They Aren't Charging For Them) | Twitter has started to advertise a number of applications using the small box on profile pages that it first introduced earlier this month. Before today Twitter had reserved the space for links to its own services like Search, but now they ... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | It's Time To Start Thinking Of Twitter As A Search Engine | At a dinner tonight with a friend the conversation turned to Twitter. He just didn’t get it, and he’s certainly not the first person to tell me that. Specifically, my friend didn’t understand the massive valuation ($250 million or more) tha... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | Google News to add ads | On the same day that the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News announced that it was shutting down effective Friday for lack of revenue, Google News confirmed its plan to sell AdWords placement on its Google News searches. The ads, which officia... |
| Feb 15, 2009 | Mining The Thought Stream | What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you wha... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | 2009 Tech Prediction Faceoff: J.P Morgan Vs. Barclays Capital | Two notes from Wall Street analysts came to my inbox today with top-ten predictions for what 2009 holds in store for the technology industry. J.P. Morgan’s Imran Khan, for instance, predicts Yahoo and Microsoft will finally strike a search ... |
| Dec 29, 2008 | Do Not Track Legislation Could Change the Ad Landscape | Recently an expert tried to explain Do Not Call (lists of people who do not wish to receive calls from telemarketers), to telemarketing vendors. He waved two big tomes and explained that telemarketers need to adhere to the rules in both, or... |
| Nov 24, 2008 | High school 2.0: Twitter rejects Facebook, wants more status | Leading social network Facebook tried to buy popular micro-messaging service Twitter a few weeks ago, BoomTown reports, confirming a previous suggestion of the deal. It apparently didn’t work out because Facebook offered Twitter $500 millio... |
| Oct 4, 2008 | A History of Google Acquisitions And Where They Are Today | As most of you know, Google recently turned 10 years old. The powerful search engine has been growing its Internet empire through acquisitions and partnerships ever since it went public. In this post, I’ll be going in depth about the compan... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Cuil's VP Product Bails Out A Month After Launch | Louis Monier, Cuil’s VP Product, quietly resigned from the newly launched search engine last week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. This is a big blow to the troubled search engine – Monier was recruited away from Google a year ago, wher... |
| Aug 15, 2008 | Google Ad Planner vs comScore | Back in June, when Google announced Google Trends For Websites and Google Ad Planner, I wrote a post comparing Google’s data to comScore’s data and concluded that Google had a lot of work to do to get their data right. I’ve been an investor... |
| Jul 23, 2008 | Meetup – The Original Web Meets World Company | Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O’Reilly defined Web 2.0 as a platform that leveraged collective intelligence. There is still a ton of ... |
| Jul 2, 2008 | Microsoft confirms it's buying semantic search provider Powerset | A few weeks ago, Microsoft denied it would be making any big purchases in the wake of its failed "hybrid" bid for Yahoo's search business. That's assuming that Powerset isn't a big purchase...and it very well might be. Confirming ... |
| Jun 27, 2008 | Google Inches Toward Wikified Maps | I’ve been saying for a few months that Google should begin wikifying Google Maps, so that users can make corrections and add missing information to Google’s map database. Google took a tentative step in that direction this spring when it al... |
| Jun 17, 2008 | Yahoo stalwart Weiner leaves for two greener VC pastures | Adding another stone to the sinking ship of employee morale at Yahoo, long-time company stalwart Jeff Weiner has finally decided to leave, exiting to take on the role of "executive in residence" at two venture capital firms. In hi... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Roundup: FM hires bank, Tesla, Akamai’s growth and more | 1. Tesla to begin production of the Roadster on March 17 2. Blog ad network FM turns down $100M offer? 3. CDN Akamai sees record traffic from social networks 4. Newspaper traffic up; old media on the rise? 5. Creating popular social network... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Battelle Turns Down $100 Million Offer For FM Publishing. Decides To Shop Around For a Higher Price. | Yesterday, news started circulating that Federated Media Publishing hired Savvian, a boutique San Francisco investment bank, to shop around the blog ad network to potential buyers. This action was taken after FM Publishing was approached by... |
| Jan 6, 2008 | Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google? | [Update: See our subsequent post here, which includes a deeper look, after Search Wikia gets slammed by other initial reviews] Search Wikia, a new search engine site, has launched publicly after two weeks of private testing. The search engi... |
| Dec 20, 2007 | FTC clears Google + DoubleClick, says privacy isn't a big problem | Perhaps this morning's FTC blessing of Google's intended merger with DoubleClick was no surprise, but a read of the final decision reveals an astonishing reason: The Commission claims it wouldn't really have the authority to stop it. By a 4... |
| Nov 29, 2007 | Google’s first social search step — your vote, please | We’ve been discussing how Facebook could enhance web search through using social data. Google has seemingly responded with — for now — an experiment. Google is letting you vote on search results in order to influence which search results yo... |
| Oct 10, 2007 | ReachLocal aims to take down Yellow Pages | Updated Local search marketing company ReachLocal will use its massive $55.2 million infusion (see our coverage) to build a gigantic sales force that it hopes will dislodge the Yellow Pages as the de-facto place local businesses spend their... |
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What has the press written about John Battelle?
Parsers VC has collected 302 articles mentioning John Battelle, among them “Real-Time Recount” (Jun 17, 2020) and “Knowing What You Are Looking For” (Sep 26, 2018).
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Yes, John Battelle is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 13, 2025.