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| May 13, 2010 | Venture Capitalists Chime In About the “Agile Board” | The great thing about following the hundreds of venture capitalist bloggers is that every now then when one of them writes a rather poignant entry, several other VCs will latch on and provide their opinions on their blogs or in comments. Su... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | How Entrepreneurs Can Make Better Use of Email | Investors get lots of emails. Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group wrote just this morning on how he wishes email were slower so he wouldn’t suffer from what he calls “Email Compulsive Disorder.” That being said, there are ways to write better ... |
| Jul 13, 2006 | Songbird | A friend of mine suggested I give Songbird a try. It wasn’t hard to convince me to do that. I love what Firefox has done to the browser market. They came up with a better browser and they forced Microsoft to start improving IE again. I’ll s... |
| Jun 5, 2006 | Find Out When Your Friends Become Single | Want to know when that cute friend of yours breaks up with her boyfriend? Check out David Weekly’s SingleStat.us, a service that let’s you type in anyone’s Myspace profile and be notified by email if their relationship status changes. It co... |
| Jan 3, 2006 | The Retrievr Flickr Tool | I’m not sure if Retrievr has any commercial application, but it is a really beautiful piece of technology.
Retrievr has a Flash sketch pad built into the site. Draw something – anything – and it will fetch Flickr images that are similar. My... |
| Dec 13, 2005 | The Ricky Gervais Show | I read about this new podcast on Nivi’s blog.
I have never heard of Ricky Gervais before. I suppose that makes me a luddite.
But this guy and his buddies are hysterical. I put on my iPod, headed to work, and laughed all the way up Fifth Ave... |
| Nov 23, 2005 | Web 2.0 WorkGroup Now Has 20 Blogs | Richard MacManus, Fred Oliveira and I formed the Web 2.0 WorkGroup about a month and a half ago. We’ve now grown to twenty blogs:
Category Sites
Analysis & Trends Read/WriteWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe,
Susan Mernit’s Blog, Web 2.0 Explorer
Co... |
| Nov 21, 2005 | Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist) | There are companies I review every day that I don’t write about. Reasons vary – it’s been done already and the product isn’t even as good as what’s been done, its a mostly or totally one-way application, or it isn’t consumer focused (or hav... |
| Nov 16, 2005 | Babak Nivi joins Bessemer | Babak Nivi, an MIT engineer, and former consultant to Atlas Ventures, has come to the West Coast and joined Bessemer Venture Partners.
And as such, we at SiliconBeat have become successful matchmakers.
Several months ago, we wrote this post... |
| Oct 18, 2005 | Rethinking Reed's Law | I posted last month on Reed’s Law, the notion that Group Forming Networks (GFNs) create value more quickly than regular networks. It makes sense to me that a network whose nodes themselves are networks (think MySpace, Facebook, social netwo... |
| Sep 25, 2005 | Send Voice Messages with Slawesome | Service: Slawesome
Launched: September 24, 2005
Creator: Babak Nivi
Location: San Francisco
Slawesome, which demo’d at the TechCrunch Meetup last Thursday, is a neat tool for recording and sending voice messages via email.
Unlike vemail, sl... |
| Sep 16, 2005 | TechCrunch MeetUp Tonight | We had a TechCrunch BBQ tonight in Atherton, California. It started off as an informal get together but ended up with quite a few web 2.0 entrepreneurs and bloggers. Entertainment included Costco hamburgers and many bottles of good Californ... |
| Sep 12, 2005 | The Apple monopsony | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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A Monopsony is defined by the Oxford American Dictionary as: "a market situation in which there is only one buyer." B... |
| Aug 16, 2005 | Profile – Vemail | Service: Vemail
Company: NCH Swift Sound
Download Link: Here
Location: Australia Overview:
Vemail is a cool little (234k download) voice-2-email application for windows machines. There aren’t many features, but it does what it does well.
... |
| 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 13, 2005 | Profile – FeedCatch | Company: FeedCatch
Launched: August 2005
Note: service of FeedShake (profile) Overview:
Thanks to Nivi who pointed me to FeedShake‘s new FeedCatch feed archiving service.
FeedCatch is a nice little tool that allows you to take any feed and ... |
| Jul 27, 2005 | links for 2005-07-28 | Nivi : Introducing: The Bay Area Technology Event Groupcast
great idea Nivi
(tags: VC delicious bayarea)
HotOrNot + Google Maps
google maps is it for local apps
(tags: ajax google maps)
Eater: Shake Shack Strikes Again
maybe we should do ou... |
| Jul 18, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 11-17 July 2005 | sponsored by:
This week: The future of RSS, Amazon turns 10, Yahoo HotJobs, big bucks for blogging, techie post of the week – RSS systems. New Sponsor & Special Offer For R/WW Readers
I’m pleased to announce Onfolio as the new sponsor o... |
| Jul 17, 2005 | Profile – Doostang | Editor’s Note: Writing this from Luxembourg airport. Free and strong wifi. Awesome.
Company: Doostang
Location:
Doostang, Inc.
160 Brannan St. Suite 306
San Francisco, CA 94107
E-mail: [email protected]
Launched: Recently
What is it?
Doo... |
| Jul 17, 2005 | New Silicon Valley VC bloggers: David Cowan, Nivi and the Venture Company | Updated
David Cowan (pictured left), partner at Menlo Park’s Bessemer Venture Partners, has started a blog called Who Has Time For This?. And Nivi, a venture consultant to Atlas Venture in Boston who blogs about VC and tech stuff, tells us ... |
| 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 | Profile – Wikipedia | Service: Wikipedia
Created: January 15, 2001
Summary:
Wikipedia has been around for over 5 years, is the largest wiki (by far) and serves over 400 million page views per month (to compare, USA Today has about 300 million).
Wikipedia is a fr... |
| 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.... |
| Jun 14, 2005 | links for 2005-06-15 | Tracking Dealflow with Web Applications
(tags: VC read_later dealflow)
Introducing: The VC Channel
Cool – One RSS feed for all the VC blogs
(tags: VC blogs rss)
Jeff Tweedy – Outta Print Outta Site – – Love and Mercy live Golden Smog.mp3 (a... |
