Last Friday I had a conversation with Tony Stanco from the Council on Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization at George Washington University. He called to chat about VC bloggers’ thoughts on the report that he published last week, Survey: The […]

My first two posts (here and here) on personalized predictive media covered both Amazon and Findory as examples. Both services give to me content not only that I know I want, but also content that I wasn’t even aware I […]

Yesterday I posted about how I believe the consumption of media is trending towards becoming both personalized and predictive. I not only want to listen/read/view media that I know I want, but also want have media served up to me […]

I love Amazon.com. Why? I buy a lot of things from Amazon, but mostly music cd’s. There are three reasons for this: 1. Subscription shipping. With Amazon Prime “all you can eat” express shipping for $79/year, I never have to […]

Traditional radio is really feeling the heat these days. Increased digital downloads (legal and illegal), satellite radio usage, and IP radio alternatives (including podcasting) are consuming a larger share of people’s music listening time. Radio is slowly losing the power […]

With yesterday’s news that Friendster is laying off people and that the company’s CEO will be leaving in a few weeks, it’s apparent that some of the first generation social networking sites are hitting a few bumps in the road. […]

We all know about search engine spam. Wikipedia defines it using the coined term “spamdexing” as, “the practice of deliberately and dishonestly modifying HTML pages to increase the chance of them being placed close to the beginning of search engine […]

After the extended media blitz in the past few weeks, along with the recommendations from fellow bloggers like Seth Levine, I decided to pick up a copy of Levitt & Dubner’s “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of […]

While we transition from the Reference Web to the Incremental Web, more and more information will be available online – especially information about you. As the web moves from merely a reference medium to a true conversational medium, and the […]

In a recent Business 2.0 interview with Om Malik, Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer Charlie Giancarlo is quoted as saying, “I think 100 megabits per second into the home is a given [in the near future] if we want more […]