Brad Feld called Josh Kopelman’s recent blog entry, 53,651, “a perfect post.” I completely agree with Josh’s fundamental premise – that there is a strong disconnect between new Web 2.0 companies claiming traction with plugged-in Silicon Valley geeks and real […]

One thing that I’ve been noticing recently is the distinction between the venue for the discovery of media content and the consumption of it. It’s notable to explore, as media distribution dramatically changes, not only is the consumption of content […]

This past week’s rumors about Microsoft’s impending acquisition of Massive aren’t just a validation of the potential of in-game advertising, but I also view them as supporting the notion of what I previously called “new new media” in a post […]

If we take it as a given that we are in the midst of a monumental shift of advertising dollars flowing from traditional venues towards online (cite your favorite report here; I’ll use last week’s IAB/PwC’s as an example), then […]

A week or so ago, I was invited by Mark Withington to participate in a podcast discussion about evolving web 2.0 business models. Also joining the conversation were local thought-leaders Pito Silas and Brian Del Vecchio. As Mark notes, the […]

While it wasn’t truly news, I found the release for the Ipsos Insight report, Mobile Phones Could Soon Rival the PC As World’s Dominant Internet Platform, to have some telling facts. Subtitled “Mobile Phones Poised To Overtake The PC As […]

In a post today by Rafat Ali on MocoNews.net (Mobile Contextual Advertising: What About The Landing Page?), he wonders about text-based ads on basic WAP sites, “So even if you think text-based contextual advertising is easily portable to the mobile, […]

Umair Haque has been an evangelist for the microchunking of media content – reducing content to its simplest unbundled form. Fred Wilson built on that notion saying that the “Future of Media” is to microchunk it, free it, syndicate it, […]

I think that it’s interesting to note that in transitioning towards a digital world, we are increasingly carrying numerous digital personas which affect how people contact us, how we communicate our personal media, and how we consume personalized media. There […]

We’ve seen a lot of recent examples of consumer web services and content which have taken off with viral adoption. While my perspective is that people over-use the term “viral”, it’s obvious that success cases are tremendous. I’ve been thinking […]