There has been quite a bit off attention recently paid to the emerging success of YouTube in the past year, and rightfully so. However, it is my belief that while the concentration of it has been on the raging traffic […]

It nearly always helps for me to see a startup’s demo when the founders of a company are giving a pitch to us at Masthead. Even if it is a canned demo or just a movie of what the software/service/product […]

Much has been written over the past year or so about AJAX-enhanced web pages, and I personally have been wow’ed by many startups which have leveraged this set of technologies to create whiz-bang features for many of their services. It […]

Though its stock price is has been downtrodden over the past six months, I like a lot of the things which eBay has done recently. First, the introduction of the eBay Express, which further expands the company’s merchandising platform beyond […]

Steve Rubel’s recent post expands on an Auction Bytes report that eBay will launch blog and wiki publishing tools into its platform during the eBay Live conference next week. He writes, “By launching blogs and wikis, eBay is taking a […]

Back in April, Forbes reported that as part of Yahoo’s effort codenamed “Project Panama,” it will move away from its original Goto/Overture-inspired straight CPC pricing for paid search towards a system which mirrors that of Google (ranking both by the […]

2006 is certainly turning out to be the “Year of Video”, facilitated by the rise of online video sharing sites and broadcast networks’ moves towards shifting distribution (among many other recent events, like Google’s introduction of video to AdSense). But […]

I couldn’t help but laugh when I read Paul Kedrosky’s post Tribble Trouble last week, where he laments that the number of people who show up at an entrepreneur’s first meeting at a VC’s offices can multiply, “And then … […]

Perhaps not enough for a full-blown post, the following are three questions I’ve been mulling on recently: Connectivity over content – or being content? I haven’t been able to shake the theme from the (long and somewhat dated academic) article […]

I’ve expressed my skepticism about the adoption of podcasting in the past, in addition to questioning what the term really means (and will mean in the future). So while I don’t put a lot of weight in the figures cited […]