Category Archives: startup

GPS device + data feeds + social = awesome service

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Matt McAlister

One of the most interesting market directions in recent months in my mind is the way the concept of a location service is evolving. People are using location as a vector to bring information that matters directly to them. A … Continue reading →

Posted in apis, dash, discovery, geo, georss, gps, location, pipes, platform, startup | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Building community is hard

Posted on October 15, 2007 by

Jay Rosen has an interesting post on the failure of AssignmentZero, an effort to build a publicly funded crowdsourced news organization. Among the many lessons, he keeps coming back to motivation and incentive. “A well managed project correctly estimates what … Continue reading →

Posted in citizen media, citizenjournalism, collaboration, community, innovation, journalism, media, news, participation, peer production, social media, startup, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Announcing baby with Twitter

Posted on October 2, 2007 by

I get Twitter now. Until last week it seemed a bit silly to me, perhaps overhyped. But after using it to share updates of my son’s birth with friends and family members distributed across several time zones in near real-time, … Continue reading →

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The Industry Standard’s next chapter

Posted on September 7, 2007 by

I see things are unfolding for The Industry Standard’s rebirth at IDG. I’ve heard that their plans may include an interesting twist on how we grok what matters. I’m really pleased this is happening and hope they can pull it … Continue reading →

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Freebase.com is hot

Posted on June 22, 2007 by

I don’t get a chance to review products often enough these days. But when I heard about Freebase I knew I needed to dive into that one as soon as I was able. Fortunately, I was invited only yesterday to … Continue reading →

Posted in database, freebase, innovation, search, semanticweb, startup, wikipedia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

A magazine I would love to read

Posted on February 23, 2007 by

There’s a magazine that I’d love to read if someone published it (yes, the print kind). Of course, it’s about the Internet. It’s about the stack that makes up the Internet, the platform or, as many people are calling it, … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, future, history, innovation, internet, journalism, magazine, marketing, media, print, startup, video, webservices | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Membership has its privileges

Posted on February 13, 2007 by

Mark Glaser asks his readers this week to submit the answer to the following question: “What would motivate you to contribute to a citizen media site?” I can’t imagine that anyone is going to be able to answer that question … Continue reading →

Posted in attention, behavior, citizenjournalism, collaboration, community, culture, digg, ideas, marketing, media, participation, peer production, socialmedia, socialnetworks, startup, strategy | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The breakthrough that is MyBlogLog

Posted on January 8, 2007 by

There’s something very uncomfortable about seeing your face appear on another web site while you’re visiting it. That’s exactly why I think MyBlogLog is going to be a really big deal. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens now that … Continue reading →

Posted in attention, behavior, email, future, history, identity, innovation, meme, mybloglog, socialmedia, socialnetworks, startup, yahoo | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Top 5 new business ideas

Posted on December 5, 2006 by

The month of lists has begun, so I decided to rank the business ideas from the last year that could or should be a big deal in the next year. Most of these ideas and companies have actually been around … Continue reading →

Posted in answers, apis, attention, behavior, development, future, ideas, identity, innovation, interestingness, last.fm, leadership, models, social media, startup, strategy | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

A human-powered relevance engine for Internet startup news

Posted on November 20, 2006 by

Here’s a fun experiment in crowdsourcing. I’ve been getting overwhelmed by all the startup news coming out of the many sources tracking the interesting ideas and new companies hunting for Internet gold. Many of these companies are really smart. Many … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, collaboration, digg, flipbait, innovation, news, open source, participation, peer production, pligg, publishing, recommendations, social media, startup | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment