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| Jan 7, 2025 | U.S. Media Once Again Fails To Cover The Corrupt Net Neutrality Ruling With Any Clarity | Last week a corrupt court system bought and paid for by corporations effectively made it illegal for the federal government to protect broadband consumers from widely despised regional telecom monopolies.
That, as we wrote at the time, is a... |
| Feb 23, 2014 | What Comes Next? | Andy posted this fascinating Playboy interview with Nick Denton on usv.com yesterday. I read it this morning over a Cortado at Kava. I loved every bit of it. Nick is opinionated, intelligent, and interesting.
Here is one part of the intervi... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Feature Friday: Tech Circle and Editorial Assistant | Some of you noticed that Zemanta Tech Circle did not make the cut in the new AVC redesign. That’s sort of true and sort of not true.
Zemanta’s oldest product, the one that got me to invest in the company, is a compose window assistant that ... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | A Further Look At Twitter’s Demographic Breakdown | Earlier, the Pew Research report concerning Twitter users hit the wires, and it was an awfully revealing look at how many people in the United States use Twitter. It also revealed the racial breakdown of these American users, and the inform... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | How Facebook’s Winning The War Against Yahoo, Patent By Patent | Facebook has executed a masterful response to Yahoo’s patent trolling that protects it legally but still makes it look like the victim. Here I examine how for almost every patent Yahoo claims Facebook infringes upon, the social network has ... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | Fun Feature Friday: Clik This | I know its supposed to be Fun Friday, but this is going to be a Fun Feature Friday.
Yesterday our portfolio company Kik launched a new mobile app/platform called Clik.
Clik is really just one simple feature, implemented as a mobile platform... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | Podio Is Like A Yammer With Its Own App Store And App Builder | Like a souped up Yammer with its own App store attached, Danish online workspace Podio launches to the public today after two years of being in beta. In the same space as Box.net and 37Signals, Podio aims to be a complete work platform for ... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | The Mother Lode: Welcome to the iMac Touch
Categories
Search | General Overview of the Patent
While touch-based input is well suited to many applications, conventional styles of input, such as a mouse/keyboard input may be preferred in other applications. Therefore it may be desirable for some devices ... |
| May 4, 2010 | The Art of the Twitter Pitch | Over the past few weeks, we’ve highlighted some tips and tricks for polishing your elevator and email pitch. If a pitch is designed to deliver a succinct presentation of your product or service, then it may be that the 140 character limitat... |
| Dec 30, 2009 | We All Live In Public Now. Get Used To It. | As the Web becomes more social, privacy becomes harder and harder to come by. People are over-sharing on Facebook and Twitter, broadcasting their whereabouts every ten steps on Foursquare and Gowalla, and uploading photos and videos of thei... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | Is The Inefficiency Of Multitasking A Bug Or A Feature? | There have been a bunch of studies recently claiming that multi-tasking and our constant use of technology harms our ability to concentrate or accomplish certain tasks. A recent example is a study claiming that so much tech usage is harming... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Should Journalists Be On Twitter? Three Quarters Of NYTimes Readers Don't Think So. | Apparently, the New York Times is still unsure whether its reporters should be allowed to Tweet or not. Intrigued by this tweet from writer and consultant Stowe Boyd, I registered for the New York Times’ Insight Lab, an online community / f... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Microsoft Prepared To Fight The Last War | Microsoft can try to replace the failed Vista brand with lucky 7, but apparently it can't sell anyone on Windows anymore. And at this point, it doesn't even matter if Windows 7 turns out to be a huge improvement on Vista -- desktop operatin... |
| Jul 7, 2009 | Why Freemium Works For Software | Chris Anderson's most recent crusade, which he makes in The Future of a Radical Price, isn't actually very radical. However, his conclusion -- which is that businesses should embrace "free" as a pricing concept -- has triggered se... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | Red Hat CEO praises Obama openness, calls for ODF adoption | reader comments 9 with 7 posters participating
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| Mar 30, 2009 | That's Only Ten Lines Of Code | I've gotten used to the snarky and cynical comments that people make on techcrunch and other tech blogs when there's a post about a startup that get's funded.
It's a good thing that people debate and discuss these investments. Clearly not e... |
| Feb 15, 2009 | Introducing Blogrollr - A Blogroll That Works For Me | I received 146 comments in the past two days on my post seeking a better blogroll. I also received a half a dozen blogroll versions built by various teams and individuals. Thank you everyone who did that.
At this moment, my favorite was bui... |
| Jan 16, 2009 | Will Air France-KLM's Social Network Bluenity Fly? I Like Dopplr Better. | Airline group Air France-KLM, formed after the merger of Société Air France and the Royal Dutch Airlines and currently the largest airline company in the world in terms of operating revenues, has recently launched a social network for trave... |
| Sep 6, 2008 | Businesses Can’t Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0’s Impact Across Industries | If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn’t know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is “next... |
| Aug 9, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 4-8 August 2008 | It’s the weekend, so time for our review the past week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we showed you how to create a custom search engine using social bookmarks, found out why online video is set f... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | The Future of Blogging Revealed | There has been a lot of talk lately about the changing face of the blogging landscape. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger asked if blogging has lost its relational focus; Scoble explained why tech blogging has failed you; and even though not everyo... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Introducing the Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad Finalists | The Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad program is a program that allows companies to showcase their products and compete for the opportunity to present their ideas to the community at this year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference. This competition, organize... |
| May 5, 2008 | Distributed Polling | The poll I did yesterday on Yahoo!’s closing price has been taken almost 2,200 times in about a day. How did it get so many takers? By being distributed on many blogs at the same time. The poll has a share tab with embed code and I asked my... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | Twitpitch: The Elevator Pitch Hits Twitter | We’ve all heard of the elevator pitch: the brief overview of a product, service, or project that can be delivered in the time it takes to ride an elevator, usually around 30 seconds or so. Now here comes a new idea: the Twitpitch, and yes, ... |
| Mar 24, 2008 | Peerflix To Close DVD Business, Continue As Ad Seller Only | Peerflix has announced it will close its previous core DVD trading platform April 23.
In an email to members (via Stowe Boyd)
Dear Peerflix Member,
Effective April 23, 2008 Peerflix is discontinuing the Marketplace and DVD buy/sell/trade po... |
| May 10, 2006 | AIM Pages Launches – First Impression | AIM Pages, the new AOL Myspace competitor that we’ve been buzzing about for the last couple of weeks, launched this morning at aimpages.com.
First impression: The site is clean and organized (something I’m not sure the Myspace crowd wants),... |
| May 10, 2006 | AIM Pages – AOL breaking down the Walled Garden | Stowe Boyd
and Mike
Arrington reported today that AOL’s new social networking product AIM Pages is now live. I’m told by my sources
that it’s still in the testing phase, nevertheless it *is* live on the Web. There is a lot more functionalit... |
| Apr 26, 2006 | New Influencers, Company Advisory Boards and R/WW | James Governor of analyst firm Redmonk has posted a thoughtful piece on
how blogging is changing the analyst and PR landscapes. When he wrote this part, he may
as well have been talking about myself and Read/WriteWeb:
“Bloggers and emerging... |
| Feb 23, 2006 | Are smaller VC firms working better? Example: Geneva Partners | updated
Venture capital
A few months ago, in response to comments, we said we would cover “the little guy.”
That includes little VCs, right?
Yesterday, we reported about a big-name venture capital firm, Redpoint Ventures, and how it hasn’t ... |
| Feb 23, 2006 | Advisory Capital | Stowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital).
Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don’t need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business... |
| Feb 23, 2006 | Advisory Capital | Jeff Jarvis links to a post by Stowe Boyd suggesting a shift from venture capital to advisory capital and calls it smashing.
So I took a shot at smashing Stowe’s argument. Not really. I like much of what Stowe says, but disagree with his an... |
| Feb 13, 2006 | Catchup Monday — The Oracle-SAP scramble, etc. | Sex in the digital City — Yep, SF is hosting a “Sex in Video Games” conference and it has sessions like “Pleasing the Player: What Emergent Sex Can Teach Developers.” SF is a great place for this: Will help lure all the nerds from the male-... |
| Feb 10, 2006 | Preview of 3Bubbles | Silicon Valley based 3Bubbles, which launches next week, is going to be an awesome way for bloggers and other websites to extend the conversation on the things that they write about.
They have created a very easy to integrate Ajax based cha... |