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Liz Gannes, Editor, NewTeeVee, a site that was launched in December 2006 as a dedicated outlet for the online video industry coverage. She is also a staff writer at GigaOM.com. She has built NewTeeVee to be the must-read chronicle of the web video revolution, developing a community of readers for events such as the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings and now NewTeeVee Live. She speaks often about video at conferences such as Web 2.0, the Web Video Summit, and Streaming Media West. Prior to GigaOM, she wrote for Red Herring.

Facebook Goes Lumpy and Granular with Privacy, Demos IM

Liz Gannes, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 11:18 AM PT Comments (1)

Facebook debuted tools for item-by-item and friend-by-friend privacy settings at a media briefing at its Palo Alto headquarters on Tuesday. Perhaps more important than the granularity, the service will expand existing tools for users to lump friends into groups (”friend lists”) so they can include and exclude them from certain photo sets, applications, events, profile [...]

The GigaOM Show: Brightcove’s Jeremy Allaire

Liz Gannes, Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 5:18 PM PT Comments (1)

Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire joined me (subbing for Om) and co-host Joyce Kim on the GigaOM Show this week. Hear him talk about Brightcove’s traffic spikes from TMZ, politics, and National Geographic; Yahoo’s Maven Networks acquisition; his company’s decision to drop its own ad sales team; and learning from experience to grow through partners. [...]

Bill Gates Dishes on Physics, Internet TV, Net Neutrality

Liz Gannes, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 6:00 PM PT Comments (4)

Bill Gates spoke at Stanford today, gathering a crowd because a) he’s Bill Gates, and b) he’s about to retire. Microsoft had just announced it would be giving students developer and designer software for free. Gates said that besides his philanthropic commitments, he’ll continue to stay involved in Microsoft’s work on natural user interface (e.g. [...]

You’re Better Off Working at Starbucks Than Running a Social Network

Liz Gannes, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 12:07 PM PT Comments (6)

Peanut Labs, a company that couldn’t find a business as an also-ran social network, took a different route and now conducts market research on social networks using virtual goods to reward survey takers. The San Francisco-based startup said today it has raised $3.2 million from Leapfrog Ventures and BV Capital (which had funded its original [...]

DVD Jon’s Startup Launches with Index Funding

Liz Gannes, Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:17 PM PT Comments (8)

doubleTwist, the startup founded by hacker Jon “DVD Jon” Lech Johansen to combat restrictive DRM (and which we were first to write about in detail back in October 2006), launches Tuesday. The company has raised a Series A round of an unnamed amount from the top European VCs at Index Ventures.
Sharing with doubleTwist from [...]

HotorNot Sold For Rumored $20M

Liz Gannes, Monday, February 11, 2008 at 5:39 PM PT Comments (6)

Updated: TechCrunch is reporting that HotorNot, the little meme that’s lasted two web bubbles, has been sold to “investors connected with Avid Life Media.”
HotorNot has been a cash cow for the last seven years for founders James Hong and Jim Young. The site, which started out as a simple photo rating service, had brought [...]

This Week on the GigaOM Show: John Lilly, New CEO of Mozilla

Liz Gannes, Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 5:28 PM PT Comments (4)

Get to know the new CEO of Mozilla, John Lilly, on this week’s GigaOM Show, where I subbed in for Om again. Joyce Kim and I had a nice chat with Lilly — he shares details on the recent executive changeover, the impending release of Firefox 3 (which Lilly claims never crashes on his machine), [...]

Current’s Claims of ‘Profitability’ Ring False

Liz Gannes, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 11:36 AM PT Comments (4)

Parsing through Current Media’s filing for a $100 million public offering, I kept stumbling over the financials section. The youth-oriented news company had a net loss of $9.8 million in 2007, based on revenue of $63.8 million. It lost $7.6 million in 2006 and $14.3 million in 2005. Altogether, Current had $36.5 million in debts [...]

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