Posts Tagged with ‘om-malik’

Reasons Why StumbleUpon Merged With Digg Makes Sense

Svetlana Gladkova

Recently TechCrunch has initiated the rumors that eBay may be looking for a potential buyer for StumbleUpon (acquired for $75 million in May 2007) to sell this property for at least the amount it initially paid for it. Of course the blogosphere is actively engaged in various conversation of who could be the right buyer for StumbleUpon during the recession we are facing now. Earlier this week Om Malik has come up with an interesting suggestion for a potential buyer [...]

Sequoia Calls Portfolio Companies to Healthier Business Operations

Svetlana Gladkova

Sequoia Capital is one of the best-known names when it comes to venture funding of startups in the Silicon Valley so everything the firm does is considered as having strong implications for the entire industry. So it is no wonder that the players in the industry are more than worried today now that Om Malik reports that Sequoia held a meeting for founders of its portfolio companies to talk about the economic crisis to them.
The CEOs and founders were [...]

Blog and Die: The NYT Says We Blog ‘Til We Drop

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I knew the second that the New York Times article from Matt Richtel went across my feeds it was going to be the water cooler discussion du jour over the weekend. I'm sure it will have the entire blogosphere lit up like a Christmas tree by the time I log in tomorrow and check my feeds again. And I'm sure some of the article has merit.
Under the headline In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, Richtel [...]

Jaman Has An Update, And A Secret

Paul Glazowski

We covered a product called Jaman (a P2P video client that connected users with inexpensive purchase-to-own downloads and over-the-Web rentals of films produced on the independent circuit, many of which have found audiences across international divides) when it was quite a young one several months back. Today, we check in to see where it’s at and what it’s done with itself.
As it turns out, its creators have done quite a bit. Some alterations. Some enhancements. Some more polish. It’s [...]

Online Video, Blown Up On San Francisco Bay

Paul Glazowski

Most of the time, we enjoy the fruits Web 2.0 creations indoors. Offices. Dorms. Bedrooms. Even class rooms. Rarely do we do things like consume online audio and video where we can breathe less-than-clean air and commiserate with freshly hatched insects.
The folks at NewTeeVee want to change that. Beginning May 24th, Malik and gang will launch NewTeeVee Pier Screenings. It is a series (four planned showings held over the course of the summer) of online video parties which will take [...]

Site Review: The New NewTeeVee

Paul Glazowski

There are few places that you travel to in your online journeys that you admire for the template as much as you do the content. GigaNet’s very recently updated NewTeeVee is one of those destinations.
One of the best-looking IPTV news sites on the Web today, it’s constructed in a manner that you can truly enjoy.
The refashioned NewTeeVee hasn’t strayed from its original mission, though it looks as though it has found a new home on a new road in a new [...]