We have a new interview up at the CIO Weblog with Steve Savignano, CEO at Ketera. Ketera used to be a (far-flung) competitor of my ex-venture Newtron. Interesting comments from him.......

We are starting our new VOIP Weblog today authored by Amy in Hongkong. I also had the pleasure to record an interview with Peter Sisson, CEO and Founder of Teleo last Friday. "We had the...

Great piece of an essay from Paul Graham: "For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search did before Google. They all use the same simple-minded model. They seem to have...

Apparently there are many uses of Google satellite pictures - Google Sightseeing which is a blog and not affiliated with Google tells you more how landmarks, buildings and unique structures appear...

Creative Weblogging sites need a better design - no doubt about this. The current design is up and running for almost 9 months and the company has grown from minimal to several highly trafficked sites...

Welcome to the latest edition of the 'Carnival of the Capitalists' I hope you enjoy the following hand selected TOP 20 entries below. They represent 20 great and original blog pieces from all...

The NYT writes about the newest NY luxury: " After two years and two million deliveries (and $600,000 in parking tickets), FreshDirect has become the online grocery service that many New Yorkers...

One of the high flyers in Germany's dotcom time was certainly ciao.com. Raising US $36+ million and burning cash heavily at the beginning it has returned astonishing profits recently: "Ciao...

Russell asks: "There's four ways I can think of to name blogs. Which do you prefer - please leave me a comment, as it makes me so happy. No really, it does. 1. A purely descriptive blog name,...

It seems the aggregator model is catching on. Shopper.com was one of the first comparison shopping engines. Along came many such sites in consumer areas comparing flights and product prices mixed up...

No surprise here - online advertising is growing all-over once again. Russell sends in this report from UK: "In 2004 online ad spend hit �653.3m, 60% higher than 2003's �407.8m, taking...

Another good post from Martino today. As it appears India (yes the nation with a very shaky infrastructure) is pursuing a major roll-out in IPTV: "Israel-based IPTV technology provider, BitBand,...

Feedburner does its second round: "Chicago-based Feedburner, which helps publishers place ads within their RSS feeds, has just raised a $7 million second round of financing, after nabbing $1...

Ok, I have to admit Google is building great apps. I did not like Google Maps initially but with the full integration of the Keyhole data it is very cool. Not that combining satellite data and maps...

I have always been puzzled why IPTV (that is TV coming through a data pipe) has not catched on faster. It has so many advantages - simple to deliver and very good in tracking viewers. However very...

As you might have seen and feared another Creative Weblogging site is hosting the Carnival of Capitalists next Sunday. I'm honored to do so again after last year in March. Up for nearly 1.5 years...

Springwise runs a story about life caching we had discussed almost two years ago. It seems with the spread of much cheaper storage (I just bought 1GB SD card for $79) and fast lines (4Mbit download is...

I have not checked most of my newsfeeds for 2-3 weeks (too much sun in California :-): But there are some great posts worth sheding light on: - - Is there too much or too less VC money another...

Software Only has details on the acquisition we noted here: "The acquisition price is reportedly $120M, of which Microsoft would keep, as the largest shareholder, $80M. So their net acquisition...

Jeff links to this extraordinary compilation - Finding information: search engines.Worth the click.........