The traditional media organizations may have structural inefficiencies – middle management bloat for instance – but they do one thing right – aggregate and package content for large audiences and mass consumption. The ever thoughtful Nicholas Carr, in his latest column in The Guardian draws that […] Read more »
Web Worker Pay Off: Online Community Manager: The web isn’t the free-for-all that some of us believe it to be. Many sites, especially those catering to niche audiences, use the skills of online community managers to nudge the conversation, seed chat forums with threads, recruit others […] Read more »
I’ve spent the last few months amid the chaos of building another start up. There have been lots of mistakes, of course, but I was surprised by one of the largest of them. I’m grateful to my co-founder who so clearly brought it to my attention. […] Read more »
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Fox Interactive, the corporate parent of MySpace may not be commenting on its rumored $250 million purchase of photo sharing & hosting service Photobucket, but the tongues are already wagging with many wondering who’s next. The name of the photo-sharing start-up quietly doing the rounds of […] Read more »
I’d like to share my tale of a start-up partnership gone awry in hopes that my experience may be beneficial to other entrepreneurs. Six months ago I conceived a business plan for a new social media site. The idea was to create a platform where consumers […] Read more »
China announced specifications for two major global 3G standards – W-CDMA and CDMA 2000 – indicating that it was fine with foreign equipment makers selling gear to Chinese mobile operators. It would be nice, except this grand (if meaningless) gesture seems like a diversionary tactic. For […] Read more »
So some days all you want to get up, make a perfect cup of coffee and read some great stuff. What you don’t want to do is go from falling asleep while gulping New York Times tech reporter Matt Richtel’s debut thriller, Hooked, to writing about […] Read more »
Great products, and anchor customer wins are the things that hog the limelight with startups. But in my opinion, sound financial planning is the unsung hero of the early stage of a company’s life. Sound financial planning can mean the difference between survival and an early […] Read more »
Co-written with Carleen Hawn and Wagner James Au. Update: Hollywood and media giants have a newfound affection for virtual worlds for kids, and are willing to spend big dollars on communities like Club Penguin and Webkinz. The latest rumor floating around is the Sony is interested […] Read more »
Amazon.com announced its much awaited DRM free music service today – starting with who else, but EMI Music’s catalog. They have other labels signed up as well, though the three other major labels are still sitting on the fence. Amazon and Apple are the two big […] Read more »
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All right folks, the last time we offered up Joost invites – 10,000 of them in the last round and a total of 32,000 so far – they got all snatched up in a couple of days with most of you asking for more, leaving your […] Read more »
Real Networks, the distant second in the digital music, has to get an A for not giving up. The company is working on a Real everywhere strategy, which is essentially the only way it competes against the digital dominance of Apple. The company has taken a […] Read more »
The online-video generation is using broadband and wireless to stay in constant touch with friends. 500 channels? Try 7 billion. By Om Malik, Business 2.0 Magazine columnist (Business 2.0 Magazine) — Justin Kan started televising his life, 24/7, on the Internet in March. Racing from lunchtime crowds […] Read more »
A few days ago I had breakfast with Peter Levinsohn, President of Fox Interactive Media, days after Rupert Murdoch made a $5 billion bid for Dow Jones. We chatted about a variety of topics, but most of them were off the record. One bit I got […] Read more »
Inside MoveOn.org: it is a poster child for virtual companies. Its staff is entirely distributed. It holds no scheduled meetings. And when it decided to gather for a retreat, it did so virtually. MoveOn co-founder Wes Boyd shares his organization’s approach to its virtual operation, including […] Read more »
I admit, it is a little late to get to the most important story in tech – Microsoft’s not so subtle patent power play – but I needed to absorb it all. What Microsoft does with those 235 patents that open source products are infringing upon, […] Read more »
In an effort to monetize its sprawling social network, MySpace has been deploying a lot of for-pay services and ramping up its advertising efforts. The company today announced its latest plan – offering branded video content to MySpacers. The company has launched a new section within […] Read more »
The MeTV trend — broadcast yourself to your friends and family (or anyone for that matter) is beginning to attract the attention of the venture capital community. decentral.tv, the San Francisco-based company that offers Kyte.tv (one of the early entrants into the MeTV business), has raised […] Read more »
Roy, a doorman for my apartment building, stopped me this morning to chit chat. Knowing my affection for all new mobile phones, I wasn’t surprised that he asked to play around with my Nokia N95. “Are you going to buy the iPhone?” he asked, seeking a […] Read more »
3 Ways to Web-Enable Your Schedule: By putting your availability out there for all to see and making it possible for people to grab the times they want, you can implement a self-service approach to setting up meetings. Here are three ways to go about that. […] Read more »
Start-ups backed by industry peers almost never work out. The latest example being “U3″:http://www.u3.com/, a start-up that was pushing the concept of running applications off a USB flash drive. U3 was co-promoted by M-Sytems and Sandisk. (Read U3 to U-Zero The Sandisk decision made me think […] Read more »
Wal-Mart is going to start selling nine Skype-certified hardware devices (and by extension the Skype service) in all 1800 (or roughly half) of its stores. The deal also includes Skype pre-paid cards. Wal-Mart is the first retailer in the U.S. to offer Skype’s pre-paid cards that […] Read more »
CBS, once the tiffany network, is rumored to be in the process of acquiring Wallstrip, the online video show about Wall Street, reports the Jossip blog. We contacted Howard Lindzon, the founder of Wallstrip, and he declined to comment. A senior CBS official we contacted also […] Read more »
Update: Start-ups backed by industry peers almost never work out. The latest example being U3, a start-up that was pushing the concept of running applications off a USB flash drive. U3 was co-promoted by M-Sytems and Sandisk. In November 2006, Sandisk acquired M-Systems, and as a […] Read more »
Passion Spotting: Hiring is one of the most difficult, and most important, things founders do. We all have our methods for finding great employeers, but passion is what counts for me when searching for talent. Tips for plucking the right talent out of tech’s hiring haystack. […] Read more »
YouTube is experimenting with inline ads, showing a text ad at the bottom of its player as a video is playing. If a user clicks on the text, a video ad expands and appears layered on top of the player. The ads are also clickable from […] Read more »
If you’re reading this you already know that the probability of your company achieving some kind of liquidity event is under 10 percent. Unfortunately, the likelihood that you will still have your job when your company goes public, or gets acquired, may be even lower. The […] Read more »
Brian Roberts created quite a stir at The Cable Show earlier this week when he showed off the new super modem that could bring data to your homes at about 160 megabits per second. The demo was great (watch video) but it was a lot of […] Read more »
Hiring is one of the most difficult, and most important, things founders do. We all have our methods for finding great employeers, but passion is what counts for me when searching for talent. Passion will tell me most of what I need to know about a […] Read more »
With $45 million in the bank, Joost seems is all set to become a major player in the world of re-broadcasting produced content from the creative factories of large media companies. But before it does that, the company needs to overcome some technological challenges that could […] Read more »
Vonage, which is locked in a death match with Verizon, just announced its first quarter 2007 results, and the picture isn’t pretty. Even though the results didn’t deviate from the previously announced (and lowered) guidance, there are some dangerous signs. Read more »
For past few days there has been an amazing amount of chatter about widgets – which are transforming themselves into advertising widgets, billboards and what not. Earlier today, for instance Mpire introduced shopping widgets that tap into say eBay and Amazon, and let you sell goods […] Read more »
_This is a revision of Amit’s Question from Tues May 8, 2007_ Every startup wants to believe that they are unique and revolutionary, it is no different in our case. We do have a business model and revenue projections but after reading several articles on startup […] Read more »
First Digg, then the online video network, Revision 3 and now another start-up! Business Week poster boy Kevin Rose is rumored to have teamed up with Daniel Burka also of Digg, and first time entrepreneur Leah Culver and has started a new company. Rose and Burka […] Read more »
Joost, the P2P TV creation of Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the co-founders of Kazaa and Skype. The company, just raised a whopping $45 million in funding from five investors. “This funding represents a tremendous vote of confidence in Joost’s platform,” said Janus Friis, co-founder of […] Read more »
Joost, the P2P TV creation of Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the co-founders of Kazaa and Skype. The company, just raised a whopping $45 million in funding from five investors. “This funding represents a tremendous vote of confidence in Joost’s platform,” said Janus Friis, co-founder of […] Read more »
Brian Roberts, chief executive officer of Comcast Corp., in a move reminiscent of Microsoft’s Bill Gates’ futuristic announcements at CES, today showed off a new modem that uses channel bonding technology that can pump data into your homes at speeds of 150 megabits per second. The […] Read more »
I’m with a company based in Los Angeles. We’ve been in business more than 15 years and we’re profitable. We have what we believe is a _great_ addition to our current business, and we’ve set it up as a seperate company. Our owner has already spent […] Read more »
If you ever lived in New York, the best part of summer was going to Bryant Park on a warm evening, sitting down on a blanket and watching The Sound of Music, with hundreds of others. Drinking wine, eating some cheese and generally enjoying the communal […] Read more »
It has been a dirty little secret of the broadband business – large access providers cap the bandwidth, especially for their power users. In recent times, we have seen Comcast and Verizon (Wireless) put bandwidth caps, and at times even taking extreme actions, like banning the […] Read more »
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