Oct 09, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler from Google Reader: We posted late yesterday that Sequoia Capital had called a crisis meeting of its portfolio companies. It gets worse: Valley A-List VC Ron Conway did a similar exercise, although without the in person meeting and gravestone, according to Profy. The only thing open to debate now is how far the web industry will fall. As we’ve (Read More)

Oct 08, 2008

GigaOM Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives. The fund organized a meeting yesterday where it invited entreprenuers/CEOs from its portfolio com (Read More)

Oct 09, 2008

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: Next week I’ll be with Josh at Apple’s new laptop event in Cupertino, and I’ll be up front about it: I’m pretty stoked. I’ve been holding off on buying until the next major MacBook or Pro revision — which I thought would come in January at Macworld — but this is clearly it. (Granted, there’s no knowing how long it’ll be unt (Read More)

Oct 02, 2008

Mashable! I’m not a big fan of reaching for conclusions and unjustified criticism when it comes to tech journalism, because I see it way too often. But I can’t help the fact that Steve Ballmer’s announcement of a new OS from Microsoft and its foray into cloud computing, temporarily dubbed “Windows Cloud,” (Read More)

Oct 01, 2008

Submitted by Dobata from Google Reader: eBay was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was cool.Tim O’Reilly wrote a nice piece the other day Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm. In the post, he re-asserted the proper definition of Web 2.0. Here’s a quote:I define Web 2.0 as the design of systems that harness network effects to get better the more people (Read More)

Oct 01, 2008

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: This post primarily discusses corporate uses and engagement with Twitter, unlike how most people use it to keep up with friends and discuss “What are you doing”? The # of companies on twitter is growing dramatically from fewer than 5 in 2007 to over 500 in 2008.Given that twitter has about 1.3 million registered accounts, t (Read More)

Oct 01, 2008

VentureBeat Twitter started out as a service in which you were given 140 characters to give mundane updates about your activities at any given moment. That’s what you still see the “What are you doing?” question above the text input box on the site. But somewhere along that input box evolved into a forum for more mean (Read More)

Oct 02, 2008

TechCrunch CBS Labs, which has been testing new HD streaming products, has also rolled out a labs version of a new product called Social Viewing Room. The idea is that you show up to the site, pick a show that’s on right now, and watch it with your friends or whoever is there. You can comment, LOL or take quizzes for points.The (Read More)

Aug 28, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: Are you an avid Twitter user? Do you Tweet newsworthy topics? We're looking for 20 people who meet that description to help us test a new feature on socialmedian as early as Friday this week. Please reply via comments if you would be interested in participating in this new feature test which will help people share newswo (Read More)

Aug 25, 2008

Submitted by Epilkington: Ireland based Tweetrush, a new analytics service around Twitter, launched a few minutes ago. For now it’s fairly straightforward - it shows aggregate Twitter usage by all users, and you can drill down to the per user level as well.Total Twitter usage according to TweetRush is approximately 850,000 messages per day, which is (Read More)

Eric Pilkington