With search becoming increasingly verticalized, I am seeing both the need and demonstration not just of searching within a specific domain, but also ranking results along multiple dimensions in that domain. For example, Indeed lets me search for positions with […]

Starting before it, but increasingly so after the MySpace acquisition last month, we at Masthead have seen an inordinate amount of companies pitching web services with a foundation on “user-generated content.” I personally believe that there is a lot of […]

Yesterday, Masthead Venture Partners, along with syndicate partner Avalon Ventures, announced an initial Series A investment in InterCasting Corporation. The company’s vision is to “enable the mobile media network revolution” by becoming the “first Location-Aware Media Networking Operator (LMNO) providing […]

Slashdot reported today that Google is not talking to CNET until July 2006 in protest over an article published by the online publication which included personal information about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. I’ll leave the comments about the validity of […]

Yesterday Jupitermedia sold its SearchEngineWatch.com and SearchEngine Strategies show to UK-based for Incisive Media $43M in cash. CEO Alan Meckler outlines his reasoning in his blog stating that it was the most effective way to raise cash for future acquisitions […]

Last week, Forrester released a number of reports on RSS for marketers. One of the notions that emerged from the study was that “only 2% of all online households were ‘using RSS.’” WebWatch at Silicon.com picked up on this fact […]

Every entrepreneur is a first-time entrepreneur once. How do VCs, then, evaluate first-time entrepreneurs? How can they garner the confidence to place both their money and time in someone who hasn’t started a company before? Of course, investors can look […]

I usually prefer to read blog summaries as opposed to watching full webcasts of conference sessions, but I spent time today watching the “Smartphone 2010” panel from the AlwaysOn conference last week. My favorite comments were made by Trip Hawkins, […]

Konfabu-device. O’Reilly says Yahoo’s acquisition of mini-application “widget” maker Konfabulator is evidence of a “long term platform shift that I’ve been calling Web 2.0.” He goes on to say that “the expectation that web companies will only buy other web […]

For past two weeks since Mossberg’s article in the Wall Street Journal, cookies continue to get slammed in the media while the debate rages. Some are equating them with spyware, as cookies are increasingly receiving a bad reputation that I […]