Fleck.com Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the most anticipated Chrome extensions, was an offering from AdaptiveBlue for the popular application Glue. Glue has long been popular in Firefox. The extension has arrived, but how is it doing? Now around a day into its release, the Glue extension has found a few high-powered fans, including Sam Sethi and Fred Wilson. But [...]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
» Time Warner believes it can get more revenue out of TMZ once it takes the site over from AOL ( NYSE: TWX ). [ LA Times ] » Union Square VC’s Fred Wilson doesn’t think Vevo can work in its current incarnation. [ A VC ] » Newspaper execs at the UBS media conference are trying to put a positive spin on grim news—2009 is shaping up to be the lowest ad...
ERE Articles | Electronic Recruitin (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was listening to Fred Wilson speak at the Social Recruiting Summit about a month ago and found myself wondering what a venture capitalist was doing speaking to a bunch of corporate recruiters. Of course his involvement in the funding for web 2.0 companies such as Twitter and Indeed is a natural connection to [...]
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... participants in the local media ecosystem—consumers, publishers, bloggers and advertisers. Said Fred Wilson, principal at Union Square Ventures, “Local media is undergoing a radical reinvention and Outside.in is at the center of it, providing readers, advertisers, publishers, and bloggers the tools they need to make local news and information more relevant and profitable. Outside.in’s...
BuzzMachine (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... that enable communities to share what they know and need to know are becoming journalism (Fred Wilson: We will cover ourselves “). Algorithms that aggregate and cluster and prioritize news are journalism. Collaboration and crowdsourcing yield journalism that doesn’t necessary end up in story form. Journalism can be a stream (see Twitter from Iran). Journalism can be a snapshot of...
Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... has put it on solid ground toward a viable business model and eventual exit. Here’s a page (via Fred Wilson’s blog) that shows the integration of Outside.in on the NY Post site : ___ Related : Here’s a recent interview with Outside.in CEO Mark Josephson on Media Bistro .
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Think folks like Sky Dayton, Matt Coffin, Elon Musk, Kevin Rose, Ryan Scott,Mark Cuban, Fred Wilson and Ted Leonsis. I’ve also started angel investing as you probably know. My first two investments are www.gdgt.com and www.challengepost.com. I’ll be announcing two more angel investments in December. My goal is to do 5-10 a year. The website for Open Angel Forum describes...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Think folks like Sky Dayton, Matt Coffin, Elon Musk, Kevin Rose, Ryan Scott, Mark Cuban, Fred Wilson and Ted Leonsis. I’ve also started angel investing as you probably know. My first two investments are www.gdgt.com and www.challengepost.com. I’ll be announcing two more angel investments in December. My goal is to do 5-10 a year. The website for Open Angel Forum describes...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Fred Wilson submits: Friday morning I attended the annual meeting of the NYC Partnership . The NYC Partnership is the "chamber of commerce" for NYC. Because NYC is one of the biggest commerce centers in the world, the NYC Partnership is a pretty interesting group and has lots of big name companies and execs involved in it. The annual meeting Friday featured talks by Lloyd Blankfein...
Flying Seeds blog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... and I would trade emails about web widgets and golf, two of our passions. Howard introduced me to Fred Wilson back before it seemed that every other person on the web knew of him. I still remember back in 2007 when Fred and Howard started talking about “this Twitter thing” and Howard going on and on about how Twitter was going to revolutionize the way average investors got...
Internet News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Where Google Goes From Here, Part 1 by Editors, New York Times (Dec 2) AlsoPart 2. Ken Auletta, Fred Wilson, and John Markoff discuss Google strengths and vulnerabilities. + "A potentially more efficient threat will come from a vertical search,...
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Fred Wilson submits: On Wednesday I did a "Room For Debate" on the New York Times with Ken Auletta and John Markoff . Here's the first part and here's the second part . The topic was Google ( GOOG ); are they too powerful and if so, what the government should do about it. I said this about anti-trust efforts in technology: Complete Story »
ReputationDefender Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Yesterday, on its “Room for Debate Blog,” the New York Times had a very interesting two-part discussion on the future of Google. The debate featured insights from author and communications expert Ken Auletta and venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and was moderated by veteran Times reporter John Markoff. I highly recommend reading both Part One and [...]
Somewhat Frank (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
“Entrepreneurship exists in the tiny space between madness and genius; and, its journey requires a few cross border violations across both madness and genius to get to the final destination.” - comment by JLM on the The Herd Instinct (via fred-wilson )
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
» Googled author Ken Auletta and Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson debate what lies ahead for Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ). [ New York Times ] » Electronic Arts ( NSDQ: ERTS ) believes there will be a decline of games on physical media beginning next year. [ Reuters ] » Why FlipShare TV, the new video-to-TV transmission hub from the makers of the Flip video camera,...
