Archive for May, 2007
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007Although Michael Arrington described PayPerPost’s Ted Murphy has the “most evil person in the room” yesterday during his mesh keynote, he is, in fact, a really nice guy. I spent a good chunk of time last night talking to Murphy about PayPerPost’s origins, its business model (they pay bloggers to blog about products and services), [...]
Calacanis’ New Gig: Mahalo
Thursday, May 31st, 2007So Jason Calacanis is back in the start-up game with a human-powered search engine called Mahalo. First impressions: it reminds me of the early days of Yahoo when its search engine index was put together manually. The difference is Mahalo wants to build its index through crowd-sourcing. No one could ever accuse Calacanis being shy [...]
My Chat with Craigslist’s Jim Buckmaster
Thursday, May 31st, 2007After getting to enjoy most of mesh yesterday (I only had to moderate one panel), I’ll be in the hot-seat this morning when I do a keynote chat with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster. In so many ways, Craigslist is a fascinating phenomenon: a business plan that could easily generate tens of millions of additional dollars [...]
mesh Day One
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007What a day - fantastic! Lots of great keynotes and panels, amazing energy. The highlight for me was a panel “Digital Blinders - Are We an Inch Wide and a Mile Deep” that was so deep intellectually, insightful and thought-provoking, my brain started to hurt. When I’ve collected my thoughts and get a few hours [...]
Open Source Energy Savings
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Now, this is cool: Austin Hill and Ron Dembo of Zerofootprint are launching a program called Dark Green PC that will use open-source software that people will install on their computers to reduce the amount of energy consumed. At the mesh conference, Hill said the key to making Dark Green a success is making it [...]
A New Buyer’s in Town
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Wow - CBS is buying Last.fm for $280-million - days after it confirmed its purchase of Wallstrip. I guess there’s yet another suitor for all those Web 2.0 entrepreneurs to dream about other than Google, News Corp., Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay.
Arnold Coming to mesh?
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007According to the Toronto Star, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty will apparently be signing a deal tomorrow to boost stem cell research. The event, which will include $30-million for the Cancer Stem Cell Consortium, will happened at the MaRS Discovery District - which is also where mesh is happening. Who knows [...]
What About Evite?
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007For all the talk about MySpace becoming irrelevant as Facebook starts to dominate the social networking market, does Evite have a future? Evite is a pretty much a one-trick pony: invitations to friends/family for social events. This is a market that Facebook could easily tackle, especially with Facebook Platform being launched last week.
Mark Jaquith Joins b5media
Monday, May 28th, 2007One of the most important elements of b5media is Wordpress, which powers our entire blog network. When it comes to using/pushing forward/squeeing more out of the Wordpress platform, we’re among the leading players in the world. So, we’re really excited about hiring Mark Jaquith, one of the top Wordpress developers. It’s a real coup for [...]
mesh’s 15 Minutes of Fame Presenters
Monday, May 28th, 2007It’s hard to believe that the mesh conference is happening in two days! As much as I was excited about last year’s line-up, I’m even more stoked about this year’s speakers, who include TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington and Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster. I’m also really looking forward to 15 Minutes of Fame in three entrepreneurs on [...]
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