The explosion of online video content this year has primarily consisted of user-generated video shorts, led by the phenomenon of YouTube and other social video sharing sites. In a post two weeks ago, I explored the question of how far […]

Can consumer behavior be changed? Of course. Is it easy to do? Not at all. As a general reaction, I’ve found that when VCs and other non-marketing business people look at consumer-facing services offered by new startups, they often fall […]

A week ago this evening, I organized another meeting of the Boston Web Innovators Group, an informal gathering of local folks interested in internet and mobile innovation. (Our turnout has continued to swell with the help of this recent event’s […]

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 […]