There were a lot of people, who, about a year ago made a lot of noises about how Jason Calacanis’s next project, wasn’t going to work (me included). Human edited directories will never ride in this day of automated algorithmic Google-ish-ness, and paying people to do be mechanical turk behind the scenes, grinding out [...]
Google Sites, Google’s update for Jotspot, the Wiki application it bought almost a year and a half ago has just been released. Now, just a question from a casual observer, but given how Squidoo has been embraced by SEO-types for its ability for anyone to generate content easily, for it to be indexed quickly, [...]
I love Picnik, the online image editor. I’ve said so in the past, mostly because it is so slick, smooth and user-friendly. Therefore, it made my day to hear that Picnik has, in fact, gone Free! Waved its premium membership, so that average (read: thrifty) folks can use their advanced editing features that were initially [...]
Crunchyroll. You might vaguely remember some noise around this video-streaming site (let’s call it a YouTube clone) that hosts largely japanese “cartoons”, or anime, as its also known, as it got some coverage by TechCrunch and Venturebeat a few months ago. The noise was around the fact that it was generating bongo traffic, [...]
Looks like the blogosphere has jumped on Fred Wilson’s back-of-the-envelope financial analysis of Google, in light of Google’s apparent troubling click-fortunes (honestly, did anyone think we’d be having this discussion 6 months ago?).
He has a good point though: Google’s spending a fraction of its revenues on the one pony that’s actually making it cash money. [...]
The funny thing is that unlike Twitter, which took me over a year to “get”, it took me all of 5 minutes to “get” Friendfeed (which just announced a 5M dollar round of funding). Anyway, the service is a bit mindblowing in as much as that you can basically have conversations *with* friends about things [...]
So I had a chance to listen in on the Digg Town Hall today, which wasn’t quite the format I was expecting, as they fielded 20 questions that were sent to them (ordered by Diggs, naturally), rather than answer live question from the (virtual floor).
Nevertheless, what I got out of it was a few things:
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