fred-wilson : i love this table. not sure i would put Zeppelin Four as the end though. it would be a hard choice and would include Exile, Velvets and Nico, Dark Side Of The Moon, and Who’s Next. But after thinking about it, I’d put London Calling on one side and Elvis Presley (1956) on the other. That would be cool. artistspaid : karenh : Side table made of old LP sleeves...
Here's more footage from the CM Summit. This is a great conversation between John Battelle and FredWilson. Full transcript is available at FredWilson's A VC . They definitely think alike, but the matching outfits are purely coincidental. :)
FredWilson This Reminds Me Of The Web 3.0 Definition Fight I Did My Part Google Wave API Google Group: Got To Undo The Ban On Me Google Wave Protest Google Wave API Google Group: Stalinist Mindset My Twitter Suspension Lifted Can Tweet Google, Can't Tweet Twitter Netizen Is No Spam Blog Google: Tweet Me Baby One More Time I Talked To Google Through Twitter And It Worked Like Magic NY...
Comedian Fred Travalena, who was best known for his impersonations, died on June 28th at his home in Encino, CA after a seven year battle with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Thanks to Lori Dorn for the tip! This is a blog post from Laughing Squid. For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Link Blog, Twitter [...] This is a blog post from Laughing Squid . For more content like this,...
FredWilson submits: This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times . I'd like to talk a bit about the firestorm that freeconomics (fed by Chris' book) has unleashed but first we need to clarify something. The FT piece says: Complete Story »
Free stuff on the web is changing everything. The new ways we communicate with each other and the resources available are amazing. Can you imagine life without Google Maps? However, it often makes MBAs (like me) scratch their head wondering, "who pays for this?" Following the release of Chris Anderson's Free, FredWilson (avc.com) reiterated his views on Freecomonics, "if you don't start...
... revenue channels for consumer Internet companies. Participants : Damon Darlin, New York TimesFredWilson, Union Square Ventures, AVC Michael Arrington, TechCrunch Jonathan Sposato, CEO, Picnik Brad Jefferson, CEO, Animoto Glenn Kelman, CEO, Redfin Ethan Lowry, Co-Founder, urbanspoon The event is sold out (sorry for the delay in posting this news), but there is a wait list here ....
This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times . I'd like to talk a bit about the firestorm that freeconomics (fed by Chris' book) has unleashed but first we need to clarify something. The FT piece says: The most plausible contender for an "entirely new economic model" made possible by the internet is what Fred...
Ok. I admit it. My eyebrows shot up with this story. Business Week reports that Marc Andressen and Ben Horowitz just put together a new $300 m tech VC fund. It’s not a huge fund. But the conventional wisdom is that there is too much VC capital sloshing around these days chasing too many projects, making exit difficult. Here is a comment by FredWilson on that point. But Andressen and...
I see more and more of this model — a service that is free for low density use, but subscription based when you use it more intensely. FredWilson likes it. And I think it can work — if the service charges are linked to the actual gains from increased use. One problem is that there [...]
We're swimming in information , we have limited time to communicate. In these circumstances, it's vital for us to say (and hear) the word ...quot;no....quot; Brad Feld makes a good case for this as an aspect of personal time management (ex FredWilson ). Saying no is also important for reducing waste in the economy. Every pending request is an inefficiency. The person asking for a job...
Yesterday I started to use Trendrr to track mentions of “twitter spam” and @spam on Twitter. Here are two real-time charts showing the number of mentions per hour. As of the writing of this blog post, @spam is mentioned between 10 and 50 times per hour. “twitter spam” is mentioned up to 120 times per hour. I first heard about Trendrr on FredWilson’s excellent A VC blog . You can track...
Reader Advisory - The following may be stupid curation! Over the last couple of days, I have been preoccupied with the phrase “smart curation”. I bumped into it when FredWilson used it, and I wondered what the hell it means. How is it different than “stupid curation”? In the above post, Fred said that if he ran the Village Voice newspaper, [...]
... miss one of their posts. People like NakedJen, Jay Rosen, Sylvia Paull, Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, FredWilson and Michael Gartenberg, and people I don't even know personally like Paul Krugman and Nate Silver. It was a success. It has kept me in these people's loops, and it required them to do nothing special. Now I'm thinking about what comes next when I want other people to do something...
What happens when your local paper goes online only? It loses most of its staff, that's one outcome. I picked up the information from FredWilson's blog where a really good discussion around aggregating, curating, and publishing new media is under way. The P&L chart does make a fair argument for staff reductions. Yes, readers did point out that the $5-15 RPM is rather high. The pitch...
