THE DREAM IN ACTION

In 2001 the pop of the bubble in Silicon Valley brought Wall St. tumbling down. Will This pop on Wall St return the favor to Silicon Valley? The super investment savvy in NYC and beyond probably have a pretty good take on what the hell is going on with the financial crisis. What’s most interesting [...]

“93 percent of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media, while an overwhelming 85 percent believe a company should not only be present, but also interact with its consumers via social media.” Comcast, the case study business for using social media, has done a wonderful job of creating a online presence [...]

In an article from PE Week, that many VC’s have discussed recently, the argument was made that the bubble of 01 prepared VC firms to be ready for this type of financial crisis. VC firms don’t seem to be largely affected by the recent financial crisis and many are confused why. A few of the [...]

Wanted to repost this new Revision 3 show by Walt Ribeiro because I love this kids attitude. I know what you’re going to say, he’s a Gary Vaynerchuck clone for music but whats wrong with that? The kid is passionate, smart, and really the only thing that matters…entertaining! Have fun watching, I know I did.

Wanted to repost this new Revision 3 show by Walt Ribeiro because I love this kids attitude. I know what you’re going to say, he’s a Gary Vaynerchuck clone for music but whats wrong with that? The kid is passionate, smart, and really the only thing that matters…entertaining! Have fun watching, I know I did.

This weekend I had a friend who works at JP Morgan explain his take on the bailout and why he thinks its a good idea. I thought his explanation was the best I’d heard so I’ll try and replicate his description here. The major financial institutions in the US have bad assets on their balance [...]

You’ll notice that in the right sidebar I’ve added one ad. I’ve decided that although I definitely don’t blog for revenue it would be nice to cover the costs, and if I can do that and still keep this blog clean that I would.  After reading Fred Wilson’s post on how he monetizes his blog [...]

The degree of which somebody exposes their personal life on the web is becoming more and more a differentiating factor. Some who are striving for a strong personal brand (i.e. Gary Vaynerchuck) put almost everything out there where others only speak and contribute professionally to the internet. Neither approach is wrong or right but it [...]

For those who think that social media doesn’t affect the real world or that nothing tangible ever comes from the internet, I encourage you to watched the conversations on all 4 presidential candidates on election.twitter.com This is an intelligent and powerful community that excels in both creating hype and encouraging conversation. For those of you [...]

Anyone into web technology, web 2.0, or the startups that support this social web movement knows that not everyone “gets” it. Whether you’re constantly browsing on your iPhone, or sipping tea and plugging away at your MacBook in a hipster coffee shop, the constantly connected, “plugged-in” life style, is becoming more and more common. However, [...]

The days of simple Google are over now that they have a consumer product. Here is what could be the first main stream Google TV ad.

No need to post why I think everyone should watch these interviews…

I started thinking about how the Financial Crisis has got everyone freaking out, often times for good reason. Many have lost significant portions of their net wealth and other have lost college savings funds, etc. But, I have been raised to find the positive in all things, so I did that. In my mind there [...]

Today IntenseDebate commenting platform announced that it was acquired by Automattic the force behind WordPress. This piece of news catalyzed this blog post from the DISQUS team. (view full post here) This was my comment response… DISQUS folks, As I read the IntenseDebate/Automattic news I couldn’t stop thinking about how this would affect you guys. [...]

Reading Howard Lindzon’s blog today I learned about a new company called StockTwits. StockTwits (founded by Soren MacBeth and Howard Lindzon) is essentially a twitter bot that goes a bit further. Any time a user on Twitter tags a stock ticker with ‘$’ like $GOOG or $GS, StockTwits recognizes that tweet and indexes it for [...]