Posts Tagged with ‘Fred-Wilson’

In case you are living in a cave this weekend, I'll tell you the "big new" in Web 2.0: Seesmic managed the coup of getting Steve Spielberg, George Lucas, and a good portion of the cast of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie to set up channels and respond to questions posed by The Guardian's Jemima Kiss. The one person you'd expect to be crowing about it would be Seesmic friend/investor/cheerleader Mike Arrington, but he's pretty ticked off about the whole [...]

I first learned about the problems with the auction rate securities market reading Fred Wilson's blog. I didn't think much of it, since I generally don't have available cash just sitting around for me to play with like that, but I was happy for his primer and the information gleaned from the New York Times article on auction-rate notes when I got to TechCrunch pointing out that up to 20% of VC-funded start-ups can't get to their money due to [...]

… So what's the 3.0 model? Believe it or not, Rick Rubin knows.
When I first saw the headline for Rick Rubin's comments, I'm pretty sure I laughed out loud and rolled my eyes. But Rubin isn't someone to be scoffed at in the music industry; after all, this is a man who foresaw the popularity of hip-hop and rap. There's a reason an artist like the late Johnny Cash would turn to Rubin for a career boost; the man knows [...]

The evolution of the blog has been an interesting one to watch. From something that began as an onilne diary; a simple way to not only keep a journal but also communicate en masse to friends and strangers alike, the medium has morphed into its very own media category, with blogs being used for everything from corporate communications and marketing to news to political lobbying. And while blogging is still used for online diaries, its impact is certainly gaining notice.
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