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 […]

Ben Grossman summed it up well last month writing, “Last year, the TV industry discovered [sic] a variety of new ways to deliver their shows – on iPods, on video phones, even online. This year, they vow to figure out […]

Rafat Ali of paidcontent.org lists the multitude of platforms on which Super Bowl advertisements will be viewable following the game, including mobile, digital cable, and on-demand. Plus, MSN is going to stream them and Yahoo archive them online, while Heavy.com […]

Sometimes I enjoy writing about ideas that aren’t fully thought through (like the post Musing on Three Not-So-Fully-Baked Ideas from last summer) – these are often the posts in which I receive some of the most interesting reader feedback (both […]