I’ll be traveling over the next 24 hours or so, but wanted to post a few articles that I’ve found interesting over the last couple of days: Online Merchants Hone In on A New Demographic: My friend Stephanie writes an article about a new audience for merchants… the imbibing consumer. A glass of wine or [...]
Category: Internet & Web X.0
Over the summer, I wrote a post on kids & content consumption. The post came about because I realized that many of the user generated videos that my 3-year old son was watching on YouTube (via his iPad) had over 6MM views on them. I was shocked that these videos accumulated so many views as [...]
An area I have been studying for a while is personalization, especially under a macro trend that is termed the YOUniverse. While I did not create the term, Renier did, it’s an area that has been of increasing interest to me. Personally & professionally, I have been involved in personalization over the years: content recommendations [...]
So much of what we do on a daily basis is one dimensional from a sensory perspective. As an example, this blog post is one dimensional. Music/sound can play a huge role in your day, as a dimension overlaid on top of everything else. For a while, I forgot this. I was thinking recently while [...]
I just came back to the office after a great morning with David Tisch, the NYC entrepreneurial investment community and the whole techstars group (currrent & past classes). I was very impressed with today’s presentations and there are certainly a few I will follow up directly with. For me, I was most impressed with: Contently, [...]
I was on the phone with a founder of a major data play within the digital ecosystem this afternoon. We were discussing the next 12-24 mos of acquisitions and who the big players will be. This post is not about who will be acquired or do the acquiring, or the bankers who will make some [...]
This post was inspired by an email conversation between Taylor Davidson, Adam Liebsohn, and myself early this morning. Taylor works at kbs+p Ventures and Adam is the founder/ceo of a startup called VoyURL. “The best way for a startup to get a dataset like that is to create some sort of self-expression platform, a way to [...]
Today’s opening keynote was given by Paul Graham, at the YCombinator Ad Innovation Conference in Mountain View. I attended along with @tdavidson and @barryl530 to see the early stage innovation that’s happening in the ad tech space. We were certainly impressed not just with the innovation but with the amount of great agencies in attendance [...]
I’ve been noodling the opportunity around an ad tech dream I had. Yes, I really do dream about these things. We all know the positions that Yahoo! and AOL are in. I won’t go into that here, other than they will need to make some short term decisions rather quickly. As a proactive entrepreneur, what [...]
