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| Jun 3, 2013 | Launch founder Jason Calacanis raising $10 million venture fund | 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!
The playbook looks strangely familiar now: Start ... |
| Oct 14, 2005 | craigslists gets heavy with Oodle | Uber classifieds site craiglisthas requested that Oodle, a classifieds ‘meta’ search engine, refrain from scraping its content. This has the potential to be the first high-profile case of a mash-up site being slapped for taking another site... |
| Oct 6, 2005 | Kudos to Brian and Jason | I’ve known Jason Calacanis since early 1996 and have watched him build a number of businesses only to come up mostly empty.
Jason is controversial, scrappy, and not universally loved to say it nicely. But I have always been impressed with t... |
| Oct 5, 2005 | AOL Acquires Weblogs, Inc. | There are reports that AOL has acquired Weblogs, Inc. and will officially announce it later this week. The acquisition price, including earnouts, is reported to be $20-35 million.
Weblogs, Inc., founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey wa... |
| Sep 3, 2005 | Katrina's Impact | I haven’t had much to say on this blog about Katrina.
I posted my thoughts about the economic impact in my Downturn post and I gave some link love to Brian in my Slidell Help post.
And I posted a Feed The Children Ad via World of Blog.
And ... |
| Aug 22, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (August 14-20) | Web 2.0 This Week
August 14 – 20
It’s late on Sunday night and I have so much to write about – this last week was absolutely amazing. I met so many interesting people at Bar Camp and added their blogs to my Pluck reader. I am now reading ov... |
| Aug 15, 2005 | We made a list! | Because there is utterly and completely no ego whatsoever involved in the making of this blog, we will refrain from mentioning that SiliconBeat made Feedster’s just announced Top 500 blogs list. Especially since we realize the list could be... |
| Aug 14, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (August 7-13) | Web 2.0 This Week
August 6 – 13
This has been a week of challenges and successes. Challenging because I am on a driving trip from Anacortes, WA to Los Angeles, and although you can now get internet access while flying, I have no tools for g... |
| Aug 11, 2005 | Chill Out Guys | Jason Calacanis was in a huge twit about the Comscore blog numbers I posted about on Tuesday.
And Jeff Jarvis took a pot shot at the "panel research" methodology that Comscore used to compile the data.
First, I’d like to suggest t... |
| Aug 11, 2005 | Has Google tweaked its AdSense rev share? | Jason Calacanis has noticed a sudden uptick in the click-through revenues for the Google ads he runs on his Weblogs Inc. blog network, and he wonders if this isn’t the first real evidence of the coming battle with Yahoo over contextual ads.... |
| Aug 9, 2005 | Profile – MSN Filter | Company: MSN Filter
Launched: August 2, 2005 Overview:
MSN Filter is the latest MSN product release from Microsoft. Filter is a blogging network similar to Weblogs, Inc. (profile) and Gawker – meaning they have hired bloggers to blog about ... |
| Aug 4, 2005 | Take Me Off Your Lists (continued) | Back in late June, I wrote a post called Take Me Off Your Lists Please in reaction to Blogebrity and the Technorati and Always On 100 list.
It didn’t generate a lot of comments or track backs so I assumed that not many people cared about th... |
| Aug 3, 2005 | Profile – MSN Start.com | Company: Start.com
Launched: June 3, 2005 (preview) What is it?
Start.com, an RSS aggregator and search service, is one of Microsoft’s “Sandbox” projects (Virtual Earth is another one). It is an AJAX application.
Start.com is comparable to ... |
| Jul 16, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (July 10 – 16) | The main Web 2.0 news this week focused on Technorati (is it dyin or is it rockin?) and the release of Atom 1.0. Lots of other random and interesting stuff as well, including important chia-pet news.
Weekly Summary:
1. Technorati is Dead! L... |
| Jul 12, 2005 | Really Simple Stealing | I heard that line yesterday from Jason Calacanis.
Specifically, I said, via email, "check this out, somebody stole a post from my blog"
Jason replied, via email:
"welcome to my world! people are stealing out stuff every day….... |
| Jul 11, 2005 | Profile – Planet Web 2.0 | Service: Planet Web 2.0
Launched: about two weeks ago
What is it?
Planet Web 2.0 is a website (and more importantly an RSS feed) that aggregates content from web 2.0 publishers around the web. It’s a must add feed for anyone tracking web 2.... |
| Jul 10, 2005 | Blog Search | Jason Calacanis begged Yahoo! and Google to enter the blog search market in a widely read post on his blog last week.
The comments indicate some frustration with Technorati and rightly so.
I get about 10 trackbacks a day from blog posts tha... |
| Jul 2, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (June 26 – July 1) | Beginning today, we are going to link to and summarize important web 2.0 developments, essays, posts and announcements published during the previous week.
Many of you may read Richard MacManus’ excellent web 2.0 Weekly Wrapup at his site (l... |
| Jun 27, 2005 | Weblogs, Inc. adds Spanish & Japanese sites | Company: Weblogs, Inc.
Previous Profile: June 20, 2005 (Link)
What’s new?
Weblogs, Inc. has launched Spanish, Chinese and Japanese versions of it’s popular blog engadget.
Screen Shots:
Relevant Links:
Jason Calcanis on Chinese engadget
Blog... |
| Jun 20, 2005 | Profile: Weblogs, Inc. | Company: Weblogs, Inc.
Founded: September 24, 2003
Location:
Weblogs, Inc.
2200 Colorado Avenue, Suite 729
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 310-828-8284
Fax: 310-861-0600
or
Weblogs, Inc.
The Chrysler Building
132 East 43rd Street, Suite 1000
... |
| Jun 20, 2005 | Profile: Technorati (New) | Company: Technorati
Technorati fully launched their new beta with a slightly different look than the beta announced 10 days ago (profile here).
Complete list of new features can be seen here (Dave Sifry’s blog) and at the new Technorati cor... |
| Jun 16, 2005 | John Battelle’s FM Publishing scores angel funding | John Battelle, who has become somewhat of a guru on the search engine industry, while writing a must-read blog about that sector, has raised a round of angel money for his new company, FM Publishing. Battelle previously founded The Industry... |
| Jun 2, 2005 | RSS Ripoff Merchants | NB: This is a re-posting, slightly edited.
What would you do if someone was ripping your RSS feed off – that is, copying every single post into their website? And what would you think if some software companies actively encouraged this acti... |
| Mar 1, 2005 | Remebering Jef Raskin | I saw the news on Jason Calacanis’ blog that Jef Raskin had died. Jef is a legend in the computer business having designed the original Macintosh computer.
I first met Jef in 1987 after I joined Euclid Partners. Euclid had recently invested... |
| Feb 21, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 14-20 Feb 2005 | A look back at the week that was in the world of Web 2.0. This week: Google’s AutoLinks feature, IE7, NY Times buys About.com, more Big Media blogging coverage, Bloglines hacks. AutoLinks and Annotation
Ever since Google made it big, many p... |
| Feb 18, 2005 | What Is The Data Matrix? Machines and Humans Coexist | Andrew
Nachison from The Media Centre raises some interesting issues regarding RSS content
aggregation. He boils it down to these 3 questions: 1. Machines vs. humans? [in regards to aggregation]
I agree with Andrew’s conclusion: “This isn’t... |
| Feb 13, 2005 | Fixing Venture Capital | Several of the comments to Cringely (continued) and Fisking Calacanis asked me if I had read the Change This manifesto called Fixing Venture Capital by Joel Spolsky.
Yes, I have read it.
Joel makes some good points, but I think he’s wrong t... |
| Feb 11, 2005 | Fisking Calacanis (continued) | Jason has replied to my post on his weblog.
And this time I agree with pretty much everything he says.
The best point he makes is that there’s the VC’s view of the relationship, the entrepreneur’s view of the relationship, and then there’s ... |
| Feb 10, 2005 | Fisking Calacanis | I am not sure where the term fisking comes from, but I learned it from Jarvis.
Jeff told me that it means the practice of tearing apart a blog post, bit by bit.
Before I fisk Jason, I want to say that you have to love Jason. He lays it all ... |
| Feb 8, 2005 | Oh My Goshe | My partner Brad and I went to Sushi Yasuda today with Jason Calcanis who is in NYC for the week.
We sat at the sushi bar in front of Yasuda himself who did a variation on the Omakase for us.
If you love sushi and you’ve never been to Yasuda... |
| Feb 2, 2005 | Back to the Future | I am blogging, emailing, and IMing all at the same time tonite.
Just had a great email exchange with Jason Calcanis, who wrote, "what year is it, 1999 or 2000?"
It doesn’t feel like 2000 yet, but it sure feels like 1998 and possib... |
| Feb 1, 2005 | Microsoft Snubs Enthusiast Sites | On January 7, Microsoft enthusiast Dave Ciccone woke up to find a surprising message in his e-mail inbox: a veiled threat from the company he has evangelized for almost 5 years.
"Microsoft has received information that the domain liste... |
| Jan 18, 2005 | How Dare You Make My Content More Accessible! | There are a few interesting arguments going on in the blog world lately, and while not all of them are directly related, there’s a common theme. Services that are trying to make certain websites more accessible are getting slammed by blogge... |
| Sep 23, 2004 | One Year Anniversary | I made my first post on this blog one year ago.
The night before, I met Mena Trout, founder of Six Apart, maker of Movable Type and TyepPad, at a party at Nick Denton’s place. Mena and her partner Ben were on a launch tour for TypePad in NY... |
| Jun 12, 2004 | Broadcatching (Continued) | Jason Calcanis has some links on his blog to RSS feeds at Supernova.
In my previous post on this subject, I linked to a piece that described RSS + Bit Torrents as Broadcatching. I like that term.
However, I think to make this stuff really p... |
| Jun 4, 2004 | Lovelorn Autoblog | Jason must be feeling unloved today. He pinged both me and Jeff asking why we hadn’t blogged his new AutoBlog.
So here’s my take.
1 – It’s the best looking blog on Weblogs Inc. so far. I am not a big fan of the look and feel of Weblogs Inc’... |
| May 28, 2004 | Bit Torrents | OK. I confess. I am ignorant about this one.
Motts commented on my latest A Ghost Is Born post with a link to the Wilco tour opener. They were called Bit Torrents. I downloaded it and got a file but I can’t figure out how to play it.
The Ja... |
| May 20, 2004 | Google's Spyware Principals | Jason Calacanis links to Google’s Software Principals.
I don’t know about Jason’s laying the blame for all these spyware apps at the foot of Microsoft, but I do agree that Google has done us all a big favor laying out “best practices”. Some... |
| Apr 20, 2004 | Will Blogging Be Big? | I was talking to Greg Lindsay today, who used to write for Inside.com – which, sadly, was one of my less successful investments.
He is working on a story for a business magazine which will go unnamed that asks the question that everyone see... |