What, no Joi Ito? How can someone come up with a list of top, ugh “Web 2.0″ venture capitalists and leave out Joi Ito? Joi not only “gets” it, he helped create it. He’s written more, traveled more, evangelized more and walked-the-walk more than just about any blogger I’ve followed.
He was investing in “this space” before it became a space.
Okay, so he’s spending time these days working on a PhD and helping grow the companies he’s invested in rather than focusing on raising VC capital and making new investments, but being one of the earliest outside investors in Six Apart (Movable Type), Technorati and flickr gives him hall-of-fame status for 2.0 VCing in my book.
(via: tech.memorandum.com)
Josh is Wilma blogging: As my travels continue through the weekend, I will not be doing my typical hurricane blogging. I will, however, be checking the RSS feed from my blog friend Josh Hallett who is in, well, let’s call it, a potentially Anderson Cooperesque location. Last year, I recall Buzz Bruggeman blogging a couple of hurricanes in the same general vicinity.
When one wants to be acqhired…one has a startup as a resume.
tag: acqhire
Catching up: Way before we all started calling it blogging, Ramon Ray was posting stories everyday on SmallBizTechnology.com. I “found” his site in late 1999 or 2000 and got to know him then. He’s one of the most passionate people I know when the topic is small business, and especially if the topic relates to the constant stream of technology products that are introduced for the small business market.
Ramon was one of the most prolific and helpful contributors on the old smallbusiness.com and continues to be one of the most generous sharers of knowledge (if there is such a term) I know.
I can’t believe it’s been four years since I last saw him, but today we caught up over coffee. It’s been way too long.
Hearst to pull plug on Custom Publishing unit: I have learned from several sources that Hearst has announced internally that it is exiting the magazine custom publishing business and is closing the New York-based Hearst Custom Publishing. The announcement came last week and the unit will be closed November 4. The company will continue to publish custom magazines for those with whom it has contracts, but will not pursue new contracts, according to sources outside the company, but who are familiar with the news.
That’s probably all I’m going to blog on this topic, as unnamed sources is not my thing…nor is breaking news, for that matter.
Update: Clarification: I heard this from multiple sources, all outside Hearst.
The WSJ reports on “splogging” explosion: Seeing that links appearing on blogs help influence search engines, some reptilian marketers developed software that creates spam blogs (splogs) that repeat what’s posted on other sites like this one, onto pages that include the links they are trying to move up on the search index. I could link to five such sites that are using rexblog content, but trust me. Today, the Wall Street Journal (free feature) has a piece on the problem.
