Darren Herman

This morning, I discovered Charlene Li’s latest presentation on the future of social networks.  What is in the presentation reiterates my views that the future of the majority of the web needs to be open.  While social networks can be closed (a la a dining club at Yale), the benefit of a social network is [...]

I’ve always talked about creating a vulture fund, but haven’t executed on it for one reason or another.
Something that I can execute however is an email list that would update you on interesting companies/technologies/assets for sale that could benefit your digital media organization.  Whether you’re in the M&A department of IAC or Google, a private [...]

Today is a big day for the country.  Some may say that it’s an even bigger day for the cloud.  As in computing cloud.
Lets see if Twitter, CNN, and other major news sources are able to withstand the traffic that they are about to face.  I’m curious to see who can handle it and who [...]

I’m a huge fan of celebrating superior products, services, and people.  Last night was the Crunchies – an award ceremony for industry achievement within digital media.  Cnet has a very nice writeup.  I wasn’t able to attend due to some client meetings that I had to be in New York for, but was able to [...]

I thought I’d write this post to recap the first 72 hours of launching the New Platforms Fund thru Herman blackbook.  Upon waking up this past Friday morning, we received front page coverage on TechCrunch with a less than stellar headline and then became top billing on Mashable.  Upon logging onto Twitter, started receiving DM’s [...]

Happy New Year to everyone!  I want to start 2009 strong by announcing the New Platforms Fund to empower developers of applications on top of platforms such as Twitter, Boxee, AppNexus, Trulia, iPhone, and more.  The goal of the fund is to seed up to 10 cutting edge ideas with both money and human capital [...]