One week ago, I organized another meeting of the Boston Web Innovators Group (aka “WebInno”). This periodic gathering of people interested in web and mobile innovation has swelled in the past year since I formalized the group – we had […]

Most of the excitement about user-generated content usually focuses around blogs, videos, reviews, social network profile pages, etc. However, microcontributions – extremely small interactions where the user participates in the community of a website – are also becoming a notable […]

Analyst Spencer Wang of Bear Stearns just published a very good overview of the dynamics of the entertainment industry which argues that “aggregation & context and not content are king.” There isn’t anything entirely ground-breaking in the report, but it’s […]

Nearly all of the online video successes in the past year or two have been of pre-recorded video content. YouTube as a primary example, but the dozens of other key moments in online video have been time-shifted non-live content, save […]

After really enjoying last year’s event, I am looking forward to attending the Web 2.0 Conference next week out in San Francisco. Like all conferences, it’s really about connecting with people, as opposed to the content in the sessions themselves. If you’ve been meaning to reach out or just want to ensure that we reconnect while we’re both at the show, drop me an e-mail at [david at genuinevc dot com], and we’ll try to meet.

Just under a year ago, I blogged about “(the beginnings of) social commerce” services which would “would provide consumers with rich social context and relevancy to the purchases which they are making.” Steve Rubel soon after picked up on the […]

Very interesting article in this week’s AdWeek about “advertisers… taking a broader view of search, buying terms they want consumers to associate with their brands, even though the searchers clearly aren’t hunting for their products.” It cites an example, “Honda […]

Last Friday, I was meeting with a set of entrepreneur founders who are very in their process of developing their consumer web application. And when the subject came up about features they intend to implement, they indicated that “of course” […]

There’s a lot buzz today about Netflix’s offer to pay one million dollars to whoever can improve the accuracy of predictions of its movie-recommendation system. And it looks like there are number of people eager to throw their hat in […]

In the many startups that I’ve worked in/with or got to know in my experiences, there is one thing that almost always rings true: the initial idea and incarnation of the company isn’t the one that results in the end. […]