As I worry about next-generation consumer internet services becoming increasingly difficult, the Denver Post’s NewsHound service, which launched this week, takes a nice step in making things easier for the average non-techie. You can download the stand-alone client here. It’s […]

I like John Herren’s thought (in his comment on Jeremy Zawodny’s recent post), “http://del.icio.us/popular is the new Slashdot.” Yes, tagging is the new black.

With all of the innovation of Web 2.0, I am a little worried about the usability and consumer-friendliness of it. Yes, blogging can be the most straightforward way to publish on the net and vertical search engines make things like […]

We meet with a number of companies as Masthead that either provide ad-supported consumer content or technologies to enable/facilitate consumer applications. In both of these case, the leaders of these startups sometimes haven’t given much thought into who truly is […]

In two of my recent posts (“Musing on Three Not-So-Fully-Baked Ideas” and “Social Networks: The Network or the Service?”) , I expressed my desire for a open and central repository system for social connection data. It looks like I just […]

Like Steve Rubel, I missed Kevin Hale’s essay The Importance of RSS when it was published a month ago. In it, Kevin provides an in-depth hypothesis on Google’s perspective of RSS. A few excerpts follow, but the entire essay is […]

It’s no secret that there is a lot of innovation happening right now in the online space. The problem is that there are a number of terms being thrown around right now labeling this trend, the most popular of which […]

Today’s buzz surrounds the announcement that of Colin Powell becoming a Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers strategic limited partner. So is there a story here beyond the preeminent venture firm connecting with preeminent leader? Is it that the blurring of […]

Usually, I post well thought-out viewpoints, but today I’m going to express three ideas that I’ve just been mulling over in my head. The first originated from Nivi’s post in which he conjectures “RSS is the TCP/IP packet of Web […]

Earlier this week, I had lunch with a VC friend of mine, and the subject of blogging came up. He told me that nobody at his firm blogs, not because they aren’t aware and “plugged in” to the phenomenon, but […]