Filed in archive Technology
by tj on January 30, 2005
Cnet discovers the virtues of Trackback spam: "Jason Dowdell says that CNET News.com is being pelted by trackback spam and he wonders if any of the bloggers are actually generating any traffic...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 30, 2005
Russell Shaw at The Industry Standard has a clue: "Google is the leader in the Web-search space, but is mediocre at best in the Blog-tracking space. It takes days, if at all, for some of my...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 30, 2005
Interesting thought here: "[Google and Yahoo] have boatloads of capital to invest in new ventures and acquisitions. They have strong existing news aggregation products, increasingly able to...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 30, 2005
Mike at Techdirt spots the perfect double IPO: "Last year, we had the story of Webshots, the startup that was sold to Excite@Home for $80 million, bought back by its founders for $2.4 million and...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on January 30, 2005
Sadogopan disssect the Economist's article about Toyota's success: "- Half of the three million increase in global industry output since 2000 came from Toyota. - Toyota will soon be...
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by tj on January 30, 2005
Scoble links to this Red Herring summary of Tech predictions in Davos: "Mr. Gates recalled how during the 1990s at WEF some of the world's most powerful businessmen packed sessions in which...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 29, 2005
Jeff Clavier reports from Jan 24th Churchill Club's "Hot or Not" "On Entrepreneurs, two types were mentioned: experienced executives with a strong track record and surrounding...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 29, 2005
Brad Feld is writing about the ideal board meeting: "5 minutes: Administrative items (approve the minutes, approve new options). 55 minutes: Department updates. We used the board package as the...
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by tj on January 28, 2005
Jeff hints me to a really cool Video search - Blinkx. Compared to Blinx Google is very lame. I had no idea that things have advanced that much..........
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 28, 2005
Jeff Nolan takes on the questionnaire we had here. He provides wonderful insights: "What do you think the exit will be on this investment? Do you think it will be a financial buyer or a strategic...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 27, 2005
This is a crosspost in several Creative Welogging Channels.Russell has started an auction for advertising on The Mobile Weblog. It is a nine day auction and the first day scored US$41 so far....
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 27, 2005
We (Nicole, Anita and me) are here the second day at the Blog University in Napa. The crowd over here is wonderful - surely influenced by the great setting of this resort. In difference to the...
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by tj on January 25, 2005
You might have noticed that this publication has largely refrained so far from posting about Nanotech. Simply a matter of focus and indeed I do not think the area can live up to the hype. However the...
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Filed in archive Politics
by tj on January 25, 2005
The Economist features this story about the likelihood of social mobility in the American society (the possibilty to earn more money then your parents). My feeling coming over here from time to time...
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by tj on January 25, 2005
Jason Fried just demoed his Basecamp software. Pretty amazing and neat tool. Instant and distributed project management for SMEs.......
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by tj on January 25, 2005
Wow Google has launched this Video Search and displays screenshots from recent TV shows. Amazing.......
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by tj on January 25, 2005
Jeff sends me this link to Umbriacom. Umbria Communications is promising to analyze the blogosphere pretty detailed and delivering a "Buzz Report". The company also promises to deliver...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 25, 2005
Things have been improving over here with some nice speeches with valuable content. Glenn Fleishman the man behind Wifi Networking News explained a bit how he achieved success in the Wifi niche. The...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 24, 2005
Tech Startups links to the NYT article on Friendster development after the investment: "I think Friendster really missed their big opportunity," said Mark J. Pincus, who is an investor in...
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by tj on January 24, 2005
Ok, I admit I'm not really an event guy. So my stay at the Blog Business Summit is a real pleasure :-) The convention features some great names from the blogosphere: - Robert Scoble - Marc Canter...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 24, 2005
Mercora a P2P radio station has secured US$ 5 million in series B from Norwest Venture Partners. "People can use a number of sites to exchange music freely through Internet file-swapping....
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 24, 2005
Ok it's not fair that such a small PR stunt gets so much press apparently in favor of Jotspot. But there is no bad publicity isn't it? "So far, Kraus has boasted that JotSpot can do...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 24, 2005
Dispatches has the right questions what to ask you VC: "How big is your fund?There is no point trying to raise $1 million from a $1 billion fund. How much is left in the fund after commitments...
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