By definition, the unique quality of temporal content (i.e. content that takes time to consume, like audio/video, either streamed or downloaded, either user-generated or “produced”) is that it cannot be easily scanned to quickly assess its value (like written content […]

Consumers’ interaction with video content is dramatically changing these days, and the corresponding attention that fact is receiving is tremendous. I’ve been surprised, though, that in a number of conversations recently people have cited the (recycled?) distinction between “lean-in” and […]

In the venture capital raising process, entrepreneurs and the VCs spend a lot of time “getting to know one-another.” In a series of conversations/meetings, both sides ask a number of questions and provide plenty of answers. A lot of time […]

A lot of the comments that Nate Elliott, an analyst at Jupiter Research, voices in a recent Businessweek article about social networks resonate with me. He speaks to the opportunity that “niche-oriented networks,” or as I’ve called them “vertical social […]

Two months ago, I wrote a post about leaping from “digerati-facing services” to “consumer-facing services” – highlighting a concern that many of the web services currently emerging are focused on a techie audience without the necessary components to generate mainstream […]

Given the success of our previous events, I am excited to announce that we’ve relaunched the Web Innovators Group (WebInno) website and set the details for our next gathering. The new website is located at http://webinnovatorsgroup.com. I’d highly recommend checking […]

With the increased interest and usage of podcasts, I am left scratching my head a bit what the term itself actually means. Admittedly, I have been a little skeptical about the potential of this medium, but it is hard to […]

This morning’s Wall Street Journal included an article about Amazon’s forthcoming plans for its online music service, which will include “Amazon-branded portable music players, designed and built for the retailer, and a subscription service that would deeply discount and preload those […]

Chris Gilmer over at the Search Engine Marketing Weblog wrote about Blingo over the weekend. The year-old search engine delivers Google results, but then also randomly picks users as winners – so every time you search you have a chance […]

In the past couple weeks, we’ve seen an additional couple of fundings in social networking. While I think that there is a lot of opportunity (i.e. ripe ad dollars for the teen/music demographic) that many of these hot new start-ups […]