May
26
Hurricane Season Starts Next Week
I did a post on the pending hurricane season on the Gulf Coast over at the Earthling blog. My pal Dave Coustan passed the mic, kindly. Thanks, Dave.
May
26
Weblogs Worknotes: Union Square Ventures
(Brad Burnham, Fred Wilson, Charlie O’Donnell)Â
After wrapping up the social media sessions at Ketchum and grabbing a burger with Amit Gupta at the Shake Shack, I walked over to the offices of Union Square Ventures and talked with Fred Wilson, Brad Burnham and Charlie O’Donnell. We talked about what blogging and social media have done for their deal flow and visibility, about some of their portfolio companies like Feedburner and delicious, and about what the new investment environment is like for the types of companies they are interested in: technology-enabled services firms.
Listen to the podcast:
- At the Weblogs Worknotes page
- Download the file (~45 MB .mp3)
- Subscribe to the feed
May
26
Holiday to-do: the Nick Carr bot
Maybe someone will have some free time over the weekend and bang out a Nick Carr bot that will automagically scan TechMeme and gin up a post that says “Nuh Uh,” and then goes on to use blog technology to make an outrageous, attention-getting statement about how the blogmobs make outrageous, attention-getting statements. Or you could just grill something & sit outside with your pals sharing a Pimm’s, Mojito or Tom Collins or five. We all have our own private Idaho.
May
26
Web 2.0 Is Dead to Me
I was already tired of the phrase and we had been phasing out references in all the Big in Japan tools. With all the lawyer tomfoolery yesterday, though, I’ve come to the Roberto Duran point: no mas.
It’s outlived its usefulness, and, as these things tend to go, with money involved people start acting crazy. So, we’re not using that phrase anymore. We’re totally stoked about what’s going on in the Web & in social media. All our friends are still making great stuff. We just won’t let this phrase be the signpost for the conversation.
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