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Congrats to Tony Conrad and Sphere for landing a deal with Time Magazine. I like the idea of getting away from link cosmos and going with something like content semantic analysis. I have been a fan of Tony’s ideas since I saw him speak of his Bmodel at SXSW. Anytime you can land a distribution [...]

Great news for the everyone over at SimplyHired. I have been impressed with SimplyHired ever since Dion Lim showed me a .ppt of their overall “plan”. Congrats to Dave, Dion, and Gautam and this surely is an investment play for Rupert(News Corp.) as he continues to digitize his old media business and create sand boxes [...]

Two stories came out today about the predicted revenue coming from social media outlets like blogs and podcasts.
From Forbes:
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research analyst Scott Kessler says the report — entitled “Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook” — predicts podcast advertising will see a compound annual growth rate of 154% from 2006 to 2010, up [...]

“Web 2.0 is all about group hugging and not calling a spade a spade”
- Anonymous comment after reading this post.

Flickr is on the cover of Newsweek. What is even cooler than getting an awesome company like Flickr national converage is showing how it really works.
This picture, The Need for Answers, perfectly embodies how Flickr allows you to upload your photos and thoughts, and share them with your family, friends, and community.

Went to the TechCrunch Party last night and met a lot of intersting people. Plenty of buzz in the cold air and books ands booze in the hands. I was able to see a demo by a company started in Austrailia called OmniDrive, I have read a little about it and Nik was nice enough [...]