Capital Efficiency Finds It's Moment (13)
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My partner Albert calculated early last year that it takes about 1/10th the hardware, software, bandwidth, storage, and other expenses to build a web service compared to what it took in the 99/2000 time period. That was just as services like Amazon Web Services, Google AppEngine, 10Gen, and other "could computing" platforms emerged as real options. It's gotten even less expensive now. As Albert pointed out in his cloud computing talk at Web2NYC, the first ...
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lkratz said:
vraiment super post !
Sequoia has emergency meeting, tells startups to try to survive downturn (4)
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Leading Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia held an emergency meeting yesterday to tell its portfolio companies to get ready for the worst, GigaOm is reporting and which we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. To drive the point home, startups were greeted at the gathering with a grave stone that said “RIP: Good Times.” Many Silicon Valley companies have been wondering how — or if — the larger economic crisis may affect them. This is perhaps the ...
Finally! Google to Offer RSS Feeds for Web Search Results (116)
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A rumor that's been floating around the web lately is that Google will offer RSS feeds for new results in basic web search. Today Search Engine Land confirmed that Google will "soon" offer this functionality. Why is this big news? Because there's no better way to keep track of new mentions of a company, person or concept online than through RSS. As Search Engine Land's Matt McGee points out in his post, Google is the ...
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Jim said:
It's about time! I've been doing this from their news search and blog search for quite a while...
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billrod said:
Sounds good to me... Nice add on..
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marcell said:
"Search Engine Land has confirmed with Google a rumor that's been floating around the web lately, that the company will "soon" offer RSS feeds for new results in basic basic web search. Why is this big news? Because there's no better way to keep track of new mentions of a company, person or concept online than through RSS."
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Tim said:
this sounds promising
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Diego C said:
Habría jurado haber visto esto ya antes en Google...
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Jay said:
可以通过Feed订阅Google的搜索结果，对开展网络营销和公关绝对是一件好事，但是也可能因为Feed便于采集搜索结果而带来更多的关键字垃圾网站。
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Sébastien BOLLINGH said:
Outil de veille en ligne un pas de plus dans la surveillance de mots clés
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Chris J Guerra said:
Nice..
Earthcomber Sues TechCrunch Out Of Spite, Pisses Me Off Personally (14)
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We’ve had serious legal threats five times in the past, from YouTube, Marvel, Rivals, Mediascrape and my personal favorite, Richard Figueroa. None of those threats went to court because all of them were absurd, and we don’t back down under any circumstances (unless we’re in the wrong, which we never were). But today, based on the calls I’ve received from CNET and the San Jose Mercury News, we’ve actually been sued. Earthcomber, the holder of ...
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Adam said:
Dude, who *hasn't* taken the gloves off this week?
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Mahesh CR said:
Such a relief to hear a human voice reacting to a lawsuit, rather than scripted PR response!
Logo design process of Scroll magazine | Veerle's blog (6)
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Today we are going to talk a little about a recent logo design I did but first a little background info. On June 25th Maxine Sherrin, one of the founders of Web Directions, asked me if I would be interested in designing the first magazine for their web conferences. I was thrilled by this invite and also honored they asked me. The tought alone, to design a magazine for print for a client on the ...
The Art of Admonishment (5)
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Nancy Ortberg of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church recently gave a sermon called "Every Life Needs a Truth-Teller." It contains excellent advice about telling people the truth--admonishing them well if you will. Get the audio version here or the video version here. You can apply much of this sermon to relationships with employees. Nancy is the author of an excellent new book called Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands: Lessons in Non-Linear Leadership. Last year, I ...
Google Says Their Results Will Be RSS-Enabled (24)
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Search Engine Land writes that Google confirmed to them that “they’ll soon start offering RSS feeds for web search results. When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email.” Screen-scraping Google results was already easily possible but once live, RSS feeds should be a nice addition nevertheless, especially for all the tools out there which only work on RSS. There’s no specific launch date ...
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Igor said:
wow
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Peter said:
Hallelujah! I've been waiting for this....
AIG executives went on luxurious retreat one week after receiving $85 billion bailout. (4)
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Today, the House Oversight Committee discovered that, just one week after the federal government bailed out insurance giant AIG, company executives went on a retreat to a luxury resort. The executives spent nearly $500,000 on manicures, facials, pedicures, and massages, among other things. During a hearing today, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) asked, “Have you heard of anything more outrageous?”: CUMMINGS: Let me describe for some of you the charges that the shareholders, taxpayers, had to ...
Why Digg Should Buy StumbleUpon (9)
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From left: StumbleUpon Backers Brad O'Neill and Ron Conway with founder Garrett Camp. (Photo: Om Malik.) Over the past few weeks, speculation has surfaced that StumbleUpon, a social media utility that was acquired by eBay in April 2007 for around $75 million, was back on the market. But as TechCrunch, which first reported the story citing an unnamed source “with knowledge of the sale process,” noted late last week, eBay isn’t willing to lose money ...
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/rss-twitter-ema.html (14)
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If you subscribe to a blog, any blog, congratulations. Not only have you figured out how to keep up, for free, with huge amounts of information, you've done it in an elegant and efficient way. While it may be fun to try to remember which blogs you read and then go visit them in some sort of order, RSS and other subscription tools are way smarter. If you previously subscribed to this blog via Twitter, ...
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jarkkolaine said:
Seth Godin likes RSS and says it's a good way to keep up with 100 blogs in less than an hour... But is that what we really want?
A Recession's Impact: Lower Expectations Across the Board (9)
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The stock market is a disaster. Banks are going under, and massive financial institutions are being bailed out. Companies are announcing hiring freezes and layoffs. And just about everybody has less money now than they did last month, or the one before that. While many of these perceived losses are quantifiable (on paper), more widespread are the losses that cannot be quantified, as people and companies cast off their optimism, and exchange it with a ...
Which online media companies will survive the ad recession? (5)
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As I have mentioned previously, we are entering an overall advertising recession and even online advertising growth has slowed. Notes the LA Times in August: “Advertisers have pulled back in a pretty meaningful way, and display is feeling the brunt of it,” said Clay Moran, a Stanford Group analyst who recently wrote a research report called “Online Advertising: caution required.” In recent weeks: * Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang told analysts that demand for ...
We Have Completed $4.5 Million in New Funding (15)
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From time to time, I have shared with you the steps we’re taking to build Giga Omni Media, the 27-month-old company behind this and the other publications that make up the GigaOM network. Today, I am thrilled to announce the start of our company’s next phase. We have just raised $4.5 million, led by new investor Alloy Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management. True Ventures, our primary investors thus ...
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BillDeys said:
VC money going into a blog network? What else does GigaOm do?
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Igor Poltavskiy said:
"...27-month-old company..." - web's youth. :)
Dear House: (5)
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"Dear Henry" certainly generated passionate comments. Here's another marketing thought: If people want the House to pass the bailout, all they'd have to ask is, "Do you want China and Abu Dhabi to come in and buy America at fire sale prices?" The bill would pass by this weekend. It's all about framing.
What impact will the credit crunch have on venture financing for startups? (5)
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An entrepreneur asked me recently if I was concerned about the impact the credit crunch will have on venture financing for startups. I responded: For high quality companies, the short answer is no. The more nuanced answer is that (i) The credit crunch will impact venture debt (already has) so people can’t count on that to extend their runway, so should raise a bit more than they would have done (ii) If the economy indeed ...
The Spiral - Part IX - Paulson (1)
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Part IX of the Going Private miniseries "The Spiral." With the Chairman and CEO missing in action, the margin calls come in. A team of bankers meets secretly as they prepare to gut The Firm. The complicity of certain regulators leaves a foul stench in the air as the Firm's negotiators prostrate themselves before the presence of a Wall Street luminary. The offers are low. Very low, and turmoil threatens to destroy what is left ...
What entrepreneurs need to know about Founders’ Stock (16)
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This is a guest post by John Bautista. John is a partner in Orrick’s Emerging Companies Group in Silicon Valley. John specializes in representing early stage companies. _____________________________________________________________________________________ When entrepreneurs start a company, there are four things they need to know about their stock in the company: • Vesting schedule • Acceleration of Vesting • Tax traps • Potential for future liquidity VESTING SCHEDULE The typical vesting schedule for startup employees occurs monthly over 4 ...
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